126 _ LIX. CUCURBITACEA. 
Four ascertained species, some others imperfectly known, all Eastern 
and from beyond the Eastern frontier. Herbaceous, climbing perennials, 
with 5-lobed leaves, simple tendrils, yellow flowers, and purple fruit. 
8. CUCURBITA, Linn. 
Flowers moncecious.—Male: Calyx short, bell-shaped, 5-fid. 
Corolla bell-shaped, 5-fid. Stamens 3 ; filaments 4; anthers one 
1-celled and two 2-celled, very sinuous.—Female: Calyx and 
corolla of male. Sterile stamens. Ovary 3-5-celled, many- 
ovuled ; style 3-fid ; stigmas thickened, 2-lobed. Gourd many- 
seeded. Seeds ovate, compressed, with a tumid margin. 
Annuals, with branched tendrils and cordate or 3-5-lobed leaves.—To 
this belong the universally-cultivated Gourds and Pumpkins of gardeners. 
9. ZEHNERIA, Endl. 
Flowers moncecious or dicecious.—Male: Calyx bell-shaped, 
5-toothed. Corolla spreading, 5-parted. Stamens 3 (some- 
times 4), inserted deeply within the calyx-tube, separate ; an- 
thers all 2-celled, on a broad fringed connective.—Female : 
Calyx and corolla as in the male. Staminodia 3, club-shaped. 
Style inserted in a tumid, 3-lobed epigynous disk, 3-fid ; stigmas 
3, fleshy. Fruit a few-seeded, subglobose berry, with a tough 
skin. Seeds flattish.— 2. Cap. 11. p. 485 (in part). 
Perennial climbers, with simple tendrils and cordate, angular or lobed 
leaves. Flowers small, white; the males peduncled, racemose ; female in 
subsessile imperfect umbels or tufts.—5 Cape species, dispersed. 
10. RHYNCHOCARPA, Schrad. 
Flowers monecious or dicecious.—Male: Calyx bell-shaped, 
5-fid. Corolla spreading, 5-parted. Stamens 3 (rarely 4), in- 
serted in the tube of the calyx; filaments short; anthers free 
or connivent, two 2-celled, the other 1-celled; cells oblong, 
straight, the connective rarely crested—Female: Calyx and 
corolla as in the male. Staminodia 3. Style inserted in a 
tumid, epigynous disk. Fruit a sharply-beaked or taper- 
pointed, few-seeded, 3-celled berry. Seeds tumid.—F7. Cap. 
u. p. 483 (Coniandra). 
Tuberous-rooted, climbing herbs, with simple tendrils, palmate or digi- 
tate-parted, rarely reniform, entire leaves, and small, greenish flowers.—7 
species, dispersed. 
11. PISOSPERMA, Sond. 
Flowers monecious, aggregated on radical, leafless branches, 
the males racemose, the female subsolitary.—Male: Calyx- 
tube bell-shaped ; lobes 5, lanceolate. Petals 5, oblong. Sta- 
mens 3; filaments short; two anthers 2-celled, the other 1- 
celled; cells linear, straight— Female: Calyx and corolla as 
