932 Cucurbitaceae. 
awns of calyx 2-—6, as long as or shorter than the crown. — Flow. 
March to April. 
M. ma. Abusir; Montaza; Alexandria-West and -Hast. — M. p. 
Rosetta; Damietta. 
Also known from Arabia Petraea. 
1297. (3.) Scabiosa Aucheri Boiss. Diagnos. Plant. Or., Ser. I 
fase. IT (1849) p. 111. — Flor. Or. II, p. 145. — Sickenberg. Contrib. 
Flor. d’Eg., p. 243. — An annual small plant, 2—10 em high, or 
sometimes somewhat more, pubescent; stems simple or branching. 
Leaves linear-lanceolate, lower undivided, upper with a pair of small 
lobes at the base. Involucre longer than the flesh-coloured flowers; 
tube of the involucel hairy, shorter than the pits: crown 20—24- 
nerved; awns included. — Flow. March. 
D. i. Desert-el-Tih. 
Also known from Arabia Petraea. 
Cucurbitales. 
Herbs or rarely shrubs or trees. Leaves mainly alternate: blades 
simple, entire, toothed or lobed. Flowers perfect, monoecious or 
dioecius, regular or irregular. Hypanthium well developped, sur- 
rounding the ovary and adnate to it. Calyx of usually 5 distinet or 
partially united sepals. Corolla of 5 rarely 6 distinct or usually 
partially equally or unequally united petals. Androecium of 3—5 
stamens or rarely of only one stamen. Anthers distinct or some- 
times connate. Gynoecium of 2—5 or rarely more united carpels. 
Ovary inferior. Styles united. Fruit a capsule or a berry, sometimes 
a pepo. 
110. Cucurbitaceae. 
Flowers usually unisexual. Calyx-tube adherent to the ovary 
and produced above it into a campanulate or tubular 5-toothed or 
5-lobed free portion, which forms the whole calyx in the males. 
Petals 5, free or united in a lobed corolla, adnate to the free part 
of the calyx-tube and usually so confluent with if as to appear 
continuous with it between its teeth or lobes. Stamens 3 or 5, 
inserted on the calyx-tube below the petals, the filaments free or 
united; anthers separate or confluent into a waved or curved mass. 
Ovary usually 1-celled when very young, either with 3 or (rarely 
4 or 5) parietal placentas soon thickening and meeting in the axis, 
dividing into as many or twice as many cells, or with 1 placenta 
and remaining 1-celled. Style 1, entire or 3-lobed, or rarely 3 
