136 CUCURBITACEAE. [Sicyos. 
Corolla tomentose, with patent triangular lobes of 1—1'/2". Staminal 
column tomentose; anthers 5, free and diverging. Fem. fl. many (12—20), 
sessile at the apex of a thick clavate peduncle of 9—14“ in length. 
Fruit ovoid-compressed, obtusely angled, cinereous, 5 >< 3“, beset with 
aa cba papillae and long tomentum. 
u (Kastalsky, in herb. Acad. St. Petersb.). 
2. S. hispidus, sp. Stem herbaceous, hirsute throughout with 
spreading ahiehints sadnaitae airs. Leaves 4—7‘ each way, cordate- 
ovate, angular or obtusely lobed with broad shallow sinuses, suddenly 
acuminate into a caudate point, dentate with patent subulate callous teeth, 
mbranous, hispid with short ape hairs above, scabro-puberulent 
aaa ; the hairy petioles ins ale in a racemose panicle 
with a common peduncle of 3—6’, aliases ent, the perianth campanulate, 
3" in Pa 5-cleft to re middle, Scaling Anthers con- 
volute. Fem. fl. many on short pedicels of 1“, crowded at the apex of a 
peduncle of 6—8", the hairy calyx-tube suddenly contracted to a short, 
filiform, deciduous neck bearing the campanulate perianth, which 
is 5-cleft to the middle. Stigmatic eth clavate, rather large. Fruit 
7—12, slightly compressed, without beak, ribbed, 4—5” long and 2—3" 
road, prickly and woolly, muricate ee pao the calycine covering 
sei with the thick, almost woody pericarp, which closely surrounds a 
chartaceous endocarp or putamen. Cotyledons obtusely triangular, 
ois thick, wi “ a conical radicle of 1/2 their length. 
E. Maui, Kula! 
3. S. cucumerinus, Gray, Bot. U. S. E. Exp. p. 652, pl. 82. — Stem 
stout, glabrous. Leaves 4!/2—7'  4—6', very variable, but with the 
basal sinus always broad reniform, either entire, rounded or ovate, oF 
hastate and 3—5-angled, or 3—5-lobed, or pedately 5-lobed, often to near 
the petiole, and then the lobes contracted at the base and sometimes 
ain lobulate or dissected, but the middle lobe always longest, or, when 
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scabrous underneath; the petiole 1—1/2’. Male inflorescence full and 
racemose panied, the common peduncle 1—3’ in length. Perianth 
yellow, 2—2t}a" a 5-cleft, with minute calycine teeth. Anthers 5, ae 
twisted. Fem. fl. 2 or 3, sessile at the end of a filiform nai cle of 4/2 
to 2’ in length, so nshiai the calyx-tube fusiform and constricted below 
the perianth, or more rarely prolonged into a beak, the sare 144", 
4—6“, mostly fusiform, — 6-angled, flattened or grooved 
on one side, the thick fibrous peri mnate with the calycine tube, 
the endocarp chartaceous, oblong, a Testa membranous. Embry 
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