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PLA>"TJE 'WRIGHTIAN.I. 



VI. 



CUCURBITACE.^. 



MELOTniiiA PENDULA, Llim. ; Grai/, Pl Wric/ht.jJ' 75. Oii tlie San Pedro, West- 



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ern Texas. 



SicYDiUM LiNDiiEiMERi, Grai/, Pl Linclh. 2. p. 194, <^" Pl. Wright. p. 75. On the 

 Rio Frio, Leona, Ho\vard's Creek, and San Eedro, Westcrn Texas ; May, June. 



1085.) 

 S. Li 



Bern' 



II, yar. tenuisectum, Gray, Pl. Wright. 

 June : and Ncw Mexico between Frontera and the Mimb 



5 



July 



New-Mcx 



Y of thf 

 (1086.) 



specimens 



sm 



3 



barely an inch 



poundly dissected into lobes which are only a line 

 are from half to two thirds of an inch in diameter. 

 CucuRBiTA PEREXNis, Graij, Pl. Lindh. 2. p. 193. 



and 



The globose be 



The 



com- 



Along 



the San Pedro, West- 



(1087.) 



"Certainly monoecious. It exhales an unpleasant 



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ern Texas ; May. 

 smell when bruised. 



C. DiGiTATA (sp. nov.) i radice perenni carnosa ; foliis 5-partitis subtus ramisque 

 hispido-scabris supra glaheUis secus costas venasque pube brevissima ssepius albo- 

 variegatis, infimis segmentis oblongis sinuato-lobatis, superioribus lobis linearibus 

 elongatis subintegris ; calycis lobis fl. foem. brevissimis, masc. obsoletis ; fructu glo- 



boso. — Prairies, in loose, sandy soil, between the copper mines, New Mexico, and 

 Conde's Camp ; Aug. (1088.) — " Root large, fleshy. Branches prostrate, running 

 from 10 to 20 feet." The segments of the upper leaves are about 3 inchcs long and 

 2 to 4 lines wide, either entire, or with one or two laciniate teeth or small lobes 

 towards their base; those of the lower leaves are shorter, about an inch wide, and 

 considerably lobed or incised. Corolla 3 inches long, funnel-form, yellow. 



Apodanthera X uxDULATA (sp. uov.) : cinereo-hispidula, caulibus e radice carnosa 

 maxima phirimis prostratis ; foliis rotundato-reniformibus undulatis denticulatis 

 nunc sublobatis subtus strigoso-canescentibus ; floribus pedunculatis luteis, masculis 

 ex axillis infimis racemoso-corymbosis, fcemineis ex superioribus axillis soKtariis ; 

 tubo calycis maris tubuloso-infundibuliformi ; pepone ovoideo. — In valleys from 

 Eagle Springs to the Limpio ; June. (1382.) (Carizal, below El Paso, Wislizenus.) 

 Root nearly as thick as a man's leg, penetrating two or three fcet in depth, then 



branching. Stems prostrate, extending from 3 to 8 feet, and with the fohage stri- 

 gose-cinercous. Leaves 2 to 6 inches in diameter, unduLate and somewhat crisped, 

 green above. 



prolonged the stems, bearing solitary 



the length of the petiole ; or the sterile longcr than the leaves, bearing several 



flowers, on pedicels of one or two inches in length. Calyx-tube about an inch 



Staminate flowers all from the lowest axils; the others, however 



pistillate flowers only. Peduncles about 



long; 



of tlie sterile flower 



narrowly tubular funnel-form ; of the fertile oblong- 



urceolate, and little produced beyond the summit of the ovary ; the lobes subulate, 



3 lines long. 



Petals of the sterile flowers oblong, or oval, distinct, inserted by a 



An- 



narrowed base, 9 or 10 lines long ; those of thc fertile flowers nearly similar. 

 thers sessile or ncarly so in thc throat of the calyx, lightly cohering, at length sep- 

 arate, three in number, two of tlicm bilocular and onc unilocular (scil. 5, triadelphous. 



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