Sicyos.| CUCURBITACEAE. 135 
at the end of an axillary peduncle. Calyx produced beyond the ovary. 
No stamens. Corolla small. Ovary fusiform or ovoid, 1-celled, with 1 pen 
dulous ovule. Style not exserted beyond, the corolla, with 3 short, free 
or united, stigmatic lobes. Fruit dry and indehiscent, mostly ribbed, 
covered with prickly bristles. — Climbing or prostrate herbs 
i . Leaves cordate, angular or lobed. Tendrils lateral, 
About 20 ot belonging to America, Australia and the coke Islands. 
all Hawaiian species male and female inflorescences are distinct, but rise from 
er ms 
mi and S. macrophyllus I have not bee 
enabled to examine but from Prof. Gray’s description of the first coecien it 
would ra eepe ine its ‘rut eoinedes in characters with that of the first series. — Nat. 
name of all species: «Anu 
Fruit ny and plentiful 
prt fomentos, Pit with soft panies: anthers free, 
verging; tendrils 
Fruit sho: cada _voticetae "hispid and prickly or muricate when 
sui 
Fruit s cai yist peated mana = 3-cle ft: 
Fruit ¢ elongate, the o ovary filling the tube of the calyx: 
€ ly ma 
1. S. Maximowiczii. 
2. S. hispidus. 
1 uses 
te panic cle ‘of male flowers racemosely 
4. S. pachycarpus. 
branchin 
Leaves more dee sply lobed, with acute sinuses between the 
lobes; panicle of maa flow ea ae tely branching 5. S. macrophyllus. 
Female flowers few at the e peduncle; fruit spi indle- 
shaped, pioeyiael beak ; Soave ely variable, from entire to 
compoundly lobed 
it small sg or globose, bea ked:; the ovary loose ‘in the 
calycine tube ane crustaceous ; female flowers numerous, all ° 
turi 
3. S. cucumerinus. 
Leaves cordate-a: ngular 6. S. microcdrpus. 
s pedately 5—7-lo bed : 
Lobes of leaves serrate or | with an acute apex; 
ri 7. S. laciniatus. 
obtuse or rounded at ‘the dilated 
apex; stigmatic are ys and reflexed 8. 8S. Remyanus. 
S. Maximowiczii, Cogniaux, in De Cand. Monogr. III, 895. — Stem 
ae shortly villous. Leaves membranous, bright-green and shortly 
woolly, at last scabrous on the upper face, cinereous and densely woolly- 
tomentose, at last hirsute on the lower face, 31fa—4' X 4—5', cordate- 
rounded, obtusely 5-angled, acute and very shortly acuminate, and 
finely toothed, with a subacute sinus; the stout petiole tomentose, 11/2 to 
2'2'. Tendrils 4— sclett very stout. Male fl. in a racemose, rather simple 
panicle on a common peduncle of 1'/2—3'/2', the pedicels 1—21/2‘. 
Calyx ashy-tomentose, campanulate, 1“ broad, its ak Reus than ‘/2". 
