LUFFA. 591 
It is singular that by transmitted light it looks just like 
the tissue lining the cell, there is a tendency in the slits to 
pass outwards above near the base of the style, and to become 
more distant from the outside the further they proceed. They 
gradually disappear below. At the base, the venation is well 
Shown by the curve of the placentary vessels. 
Inthis, when an outer additional lacinia is developed so 
also is an additional locule of the ovary.] 
Lvrra. 
Luffa acutangula. 
Scandens scabra, caulis angulatus, fol. ambitu reniformia 
cordata sub 7-loba, mucronato-dentata basi 5-venia. 
Cirrhi ramosi hinc petiolis sub adjecta. 
Bractea magna carnosa a qua maxima glandulis calliformi- 
bus praedita, postica vel supera cuique inflorescentize adest. 
Inflorescentia videtur vere terminalis. Flores masculi, 
Tacemosi supera quoad feminea, racemo spithamza vel do- 
drantale. 3 
Pedicelli infra medium articulati bracteoque carnosa glan- 
dulosa, plus minus pedicella (infra articul.) connata suf- 
Calyx tubus conicus, lacinjis DE A 3-veniis æs- 
ut tivatione valvatis. 
Cor, rotata laciniis profundis obovato-cuneatis 5-venosis. 
ZEstivatione imbricata marginibus valde inflexis, basi albo- 
pilosa, 
Stam. 5, Filament. unico singulo sepalo opposita, dua petalis 
opposita profunde bipartita. 
'. Connectivum omni dilatatissime lobatum. 
Anthere maxime uniloculares pre aliis sinuate, loculis 
| Eni. 
Torus glandulosus cyathiformis calycis fundum occupans. 
Rudim, fem, centrale conicum, 
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