100 KBOBOT. 



long, leaves minute 2 or 3 lines long, flowers 

 very small, green but lobes white, 



00 i. Aplarix\a ( MicRv:)FiiYLA R. prostrate 

 smooth, stems terete ramose, leaves on short 

 petiols rounded subcordate obliqual entire ob- 

 tuse or retuse; flowers solitary pedicelate — in 

 Louisiana and Texas, same size, but leaves verv 

 minute only one line long, flowers few and so 

 minute that I cannot avalyze them, they are ap- 

 parently campanulate 41obe and male, na' cap- 

 sule being visible. 



99o. Synexemfa clneifolia Raf. stems erect 

 simple, leaves petiolate adpressed cuneate acute, 

 stipules subulate ; flowers extra-axilary solitary 

 or geminate pedunculate — Louisiana and Ar- 

 kanzas, stems humble 2 to 4 inches high, leaves 

 3 lines long, flowers minute. For my G. %- 

 7iexemia 1825 (Mascalanthus Nut. 1834) rjse 

 my Neogenyton and fl. tellur. 1191, 



000. ARKEZOSTIS Raf. Cucurbitacea 

 near Melothria, , dift'. fl. hermaphr. and male, 

 minute campanulate 5fid, ovary oblong constric- 

 ted above,style with single stigma tritobe almost 

 coadunate witii 3 stamens monadelphous and 

 syngenese covering it. Male fl. still smaller, 

 stamens subsessile. Berry oblong triloculai* 

 trisperme ! Habit of Melothria, hut flowers 

 and berries subsessile. — A distinct G. probably 

 blended in our Melothria chiefly different by 3 

 seeded berries sessile. It was once sent me by 

 Or. Short as the Boyklnia trispora of Wray 

 and Nuttal, but my Tlinofon (see 902^ is the 

 only Boykinia published by Nuttal. My name 

 was a classical one of Bryonia. 



997. Arkezostis qut\uiieloba R. scandent 

 roughish, stem striate, loaves petiolate cordate 

 olobed, sinusses obtuse, lobes ovate acute re- 



