1 134 CUCUKBITACEAE 



sparingly pubescent beneath, cordate at the base ; petiole about i as long as the blade, 

 glabrous : peduncle 1-2 cm. long : pedicel 3-4 times longer than the peduncle, subtended 

 by ovate or suborbicular bracts : flowers glabrous : bypanthium yellowish green without : 

 calyx abruptly bent and somewhat contracted into a neck above the inflation, the limb 

 2-3 cm. broad, 3-lobed : capsules cylindric-prismatic, 5-6 cm. long. [A. Sipho L'Her. ] 



In woods; Minnesota, south to Kansas, Pennsylvania and Georgia. Spring and summer, DUTCH- 

 MAN'S PIPE. 



Order 13. CAMPANULALES. 



Herbs, or rarely shrubs or trees. Leaves mainly alternate : blades simple, 

 entire, toothed or lobed. Flowers perfect, monoecious or dioecious, regular 

 or irregular. Hypanthium well developed, surrounding the ovary and adnate 

 to it. Calyx of usually 5 distinct or partially united sepals. Corolla of 5 or 

 rarely 6 distinct or usually partially equally or unequally united petals. An- 

 droecium of 3-5 stamens or rarely of only 1 stamen. Anthers distinct or some- 

 times connate. Gynoecium of 2-5 or rarely more united carpels. Ovary in- 

 ferior. Styles united. Fruit a capsule or a berry, sometimes a pepo. 



Endosperm wanting : flowers monoecious or dioecious : plants mainly vines. 



Fam. 1. CUCURBITACEAE. 

 Endosperm present : flowers perfect or mainly so. 



Corolla regular. Fam. 2. CAMPANULACEAE. 



Corolla split on one side and otherwise more or less irregular. 



Stigma not indusiate : stamens united by either the anthers or fila- 

 ments or both. Fam. 3. LOBELIACEAE. 

 Stigma indusiate : stamens distinct or rarely united by the anthers. Fam. 4. BRUNONIACEAE. 



FAMILY 1. CUCURBITACEAE B. Juss. GOURD FAMILY. 



Annual or perennial succulent herbs, of great economic value, usually trail- 

 ing, or climbing by means of tendrils. Leaves alternate : blades palmately nerved 

 or lobed, often pubescent with rough hairs. Inflorescence axillary, clustered, 

 panicled or racemose, only one flower in an axil. Flowers monoecious or dioe- 

 cious. Calyx of 4 or 5, rarely 6, more or less united sepals, adherent to the 

 ovary : lobes imbricated. Corolla of as many petals as the sepals, more or less 

 united and adherent to the calyx : lobes entire or fringed. Androecium of 3 

 stamens, then two with 2-celled anthers and one with a 1-celled anther, or rarely 

 1, 2, 4 or 5 stamens. Filaments distinct or variously united. Anthers extrorse, 

 more or less contorted. Gynoecium a single compound pistil. Ovary rarely 

 1-celled, with 1 pendulous ovule, often 3-celled with many horizontal, anatropous 

 ovules in many series. Styles terminal, united. Stigmas thick, dilated or 

 fringed. Fruit a fleshy or dry berry (pepo). Seeds rarely solitary and pendu- 

 lous, usually numerous, flattened, horizontal. Endosperm wanting. Embryo 

 straight, w r ith foliaceous nerved cotyledons. 



Ovary 1-celled, with 3-5 placentae : ovules numerous or rarely few, commonly horizontal. 

 Anthers straight or merely curved. 



Disk at the base of the'style annular or cup-like. 1. MELOTHRIA. 



Disk at the base of the style wantingior obsolete. 2. IBEEVILLEA. 



Anthers contorted or conduplicate. 

 Ovules or seeds numerous, horizontal. 



Corolla rotate, of 5 distinct or partially united petals. 

 Anthers distinct. 



Bottom of the calyx furnished with 2-3 scales. 3. MOMORDICA. 



Bottom of the calyx without scales. 



Connective not surpassing the anther-sacs : tendrils branched. 4. CITRULLUS. 

 Connective produced beyond the anther-sacs : ^tendrils simple. 5. CUCUMIS. 

 Anthers cohering in a head. 6. LAGENARIA. 



Corolla campanulate. - 7. CUCURBITA. 



Ovules or seeds 1-4 in each cavity, erect or ascending. 8. CAYAPONIA. 



Ovary 1-several-celled : ovules solitary or few, erect, ascending or pendulous. 

 Ovary usually 2-3-celled : ovules few. erect or ascending. 



Stamens 2-3 : leaf-blades lobed : fruit symmetrical, opening at the top. 9. MICRAMPELES. 



Stamens united into a single column : leaf-blades compound : fruit oblique, 



elastically bursting. 10. CYCLANTHERA. 



Ovary 1-celled : ovule solitary, pendulous. 11. SICYOS. 



1. MELOTHRIA L. 



Herbs, with slender trailing or climbing stems. Leaf-blades entire, lobed or palmately 

 divided : petioles furnished with simple tendrils at the axils. Flowers monoecious or 



