GENERA AND SPECIES. 105 
Apium. 
Stems prostrate or decumbent, rarely erect ; segments of 
leaves from broad-linear to rhomboidal ee ... prostratum 
Sium. 
Large, erect ; leaves simply pinnate ; umbels terminal ... /atifolium 
Daueus. 
Small erect annual beset with short stiff hairs ; umbels of 
few very unequal rays; leaves twice pinnate of in- ; 
cised segments... mo ve Be ys ... brachiatus 
Sub-Class III.—Synpetaleae Perigynae. 
ORDER CUCURBITACEAE. 
1. Anther-cells very flexuous or conduplicate. 
Fruit with a hard rind ; connective produced beyond the 
anthers ; petals almost distinct; calyx tubular and 
campanulate, segments subulate ae . Cucumis 
Anthers without an appendage; peduncles <i gdes 
1-flowered, with a cordate bract below the flower ; 
corolla 5- -partite ee ne ae os ... Momordica 
11. Anther-cells eens Laie 
Stigmas 3-fringed; corolla campanulate, ciliate or toothed; 
calyx 5-toothed ... ae - + a ... Melothria 
Cucumis. 
Very villous ; stems flexuose, pentagonal ; leaves rotund, 
obtusely angular, toothed ; fruit elliptical, hairy ... Chate 
Momordica. 
Leaves palmately 7-lobed, dentate, somewhat hairy ; ten- 
drils downy ; fruit oblong-acuminate, angular, tuber- 
culate ; seeds stalked .... ne ar We ... Charantia 
Melothria. 
Leaves orbicular-cordate, palmately 5- to 7-lobed ; male 
and female flowers in the same axils, both minute 
and shortly stalked ; fruit small, globular, smooth... Muelleri 
Leaves deeply cordate or hastate with broad rounded or 
angular lobes, obscurely crenate; male flowers sessile Maderaspatana 
ORDER LORANTHACEAE, 
Flowers bisexual ; anthers bursting longitudinally ... Loranthus 
Flowers unisexual ; anthers opening by pores... .. Viseum 
