138 CUCURBITACEAE. [Sicyos. 
. S. microcarpus, Mann, Enum. no. 146. — Stem weak and slender, 
te Leaves on petioles of ie—1, thin membranous, papillose or 
smooth above, puberulous underneath, 1—2%/,‘ in diameter, cordate, 
with a ia rounded or angular sinus and obtusely 3—5-angled, faintly 
dentate. Male fl. Panicle few-flowered, 2—3’ long, racemosely or um- 
bellately branching, the war only 1". Perianth pale, 14/2—2" in 
diameter. Anthers 38, conn in a head. Fem. fl. numerous, 30—40, 
sessile, in a globose head a om 5“ in diam., on a peduncle of not more 
n 2—3”"; the Lonicatoras globose, shortly beaked; the perianth or 
limb only 1—1'/2” in diam. and parted to the base. Stigmatic lobes 
short, clavate, often conglutinate, the style not exserted. Ripe fruit not 
over 2" long, globose, with a short beak, pubescent. Ovary loose in 
the calyx-tube, ovoid, scarcely 1“ long, covered with a thin film, 
crustaceous, brownish, smooth and glossy. Embryo suborbicular. — 
ogn. 1. ¢ 
Oahu! Makaleha, Waianae (Remy); Kauai (Remy). 
7. 8. laciniatus, sp. n. — Stem scabrous. Leaves broadly reniform, 
or truncate at the base, 4—5’ in diameter, 5—9-lobed, the lobes acute, 
ith acute sinuses between, and extending to one or two t 
length of the leaf, irregularly toothed, serrate or laciniate, membranous, 
sparsely hispid with short hairs or only punctate with their white bases 
above, scabro-puberulous oo the . Vj2—3' long. Male fl. 
Branches of panicle umbellate mmon peduncle of 4—7’, the 
pedicels crowded near their th ca: sibeeen, Perianth Life —2" 
in diameter, 5-cleft to the middle. Anthers 3, connate in a globular head, 
slightly twisted. Jem. fl. numerous, sessile in a head at the apex of a 
peduncle of 1/:—1’; the calyx-tube o cap and beaked, the minute limb 
or free perianth cleft down to the beak. Style filiform from a triangular 
base, exserted beyond the Berens as a globose, entire, 3-suleate stigma. 
Ripe fruit 20—30, obovate, 5” long, (cara the persistent beak, 3—6- 
angled, puberulous; the coriaceous ovary loose, not epee a. tube, 
ovoid, subcompressed, 1'/2—2“. Seed suspended from a distinct funis, 
e testa membranous, the cotyledons broad oblong, rileianate with a 
short mamillaeform radicle. 
E. Maui, Kula! 
, Cogniaux, in De Cand. a IT, — Stem 
pil filiform, stem branching, glabrous and smooth. He rather 
stiff, bright green and scabrous on the upper ae, cinereous and shortly 
but densely villous-hirsute, at last scabrous on the lower, 1'/4s—2’ 
_ i'/:—2%/2', very deeply and palmately 5—7-lobed, the lobes narrow-oblong, 
subentire, dilating and often lobulate near the obtuse or rounded apex, 
~ the sinus rounded; the slender petiole #/4— 1! js‘ long. Tendrils 2-cleft. 
