126 LIX. CUCURBITACE^. 



Four ascertained species, some others imperfectly known, all Eastern 

 and from beyond the Eastern frontier. Herbaceons, climbing perennials, 

 with 5-lobed leaves, simple tendrils, yellow flowers, and purple fruit. 



8. CUCURBITA, Linu. 



Flowers monoecious. — Male : Calyx stort, bell-shaped, 5-fid. 

 Corolla bell-shaped, 5-fid. Stamens 3 ; filaments 4 ; anthers one 

 1-celled and two 2-celled, very sinuous. — Female : Calyx and 

 corolla of male. Sterile stamens. Ovary 3-5-celled, many- 

 ovuled ; style 3-fid ; stigmas thickened, 2-lobed. Grourd many- 

 seeded. Seeds ovate, compressed, with a tumid margin. 



Annuals, with branched tendrils and cordate or 3-5-lobed leaves. — To 

 this belong the universally-cultivated Gourds and Pumpkins of gardeners. 



9. ZEHNERIA, Endl. 



Flowers monoecious or dioecious. — Male : Calyx bell-shaped, 

 5-toothed. Corolla spreading, 5-parted. Stamens 3 (some- 

 times 4), inserted deeply within the calyx-tube, separate ; an- 

 thers all 2-celled, on a broad fringed connective. — Female: 

 Calyx and corolla as in the male. Staminodia 3, club-shaped. 

 Style inserted in a tumid, 3-lobed epigynous disk, 3-fid ; stigmas 

 3, fleshy. Fruit a few-seeded, subglobose berry, mth a tough 

 skin. Seeds flattish. — Fl. Cap. ii. p. 485 (in part). 



Perennial climbers, with simple tendrils and cordate, angular or lobed 

 leaves. Flowers small, white ; the males peduncled, racemose ; female in 

 subsessile imperfect umbels or tufts. — 5 Cape species, dispersed. 



10. RHYNCHOCARPA, Schrad. 



Flowers monoecious or dioecious. — Male : Calyx bell-shaped, 

 5-fid. Corolla spreading, 5-parted. Stamens 3 (rarely 4), in- 

 serted in the tube of the calyx ; filaments short ; anthers free 

 or connivent, two 2-celled, the other 1-celled; cells oblong, 

 straight, the connective rarely crested. — Female : Calyx and 

 corolla as in the male. Staminodia 3. Style inserted in a 

 tumid, epigynous disk. Fruit a sharply-beaked or taper- 

 pointed, few-seeded, 3-celled berry. Seeds tumid. — Fl. Cap. 

 ii. p. 483 (Coniandra). 



Tuberous-rooted, climbing herbs, with simple tendrils, palmate or digi- 

 tate-parted, rarely reniform, entire leaves, and small, greenish flowers. — 7 

 species, dispersed. 



11. PISOSPERMA, Sond. 



Flowers monoecious, aggregated on radical, leafless branches, 

 the males racemose, the female subsolitary. — Male : Calyx- 

 tube bell-shaped ; lobes 5, lanceolate. Petals 5, oblong. Sta- 

 mens 3 ; filaments short ; two anthers 2-celled, the other 1- 

 celled ; cells linear, straight. — Female : Calyx and corolla as 



