CUCURBITACE^E. XXI. ANGURIA. XXII. ZUCCA. XXIII. ALLASIA, &c. PAPAYACE^E. 



5 A. ROSEA (H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. amer. 2. p. 122.) 

 branches glabrous ; leaves truncately cordate at the base, quite 

 entire, 3-lobed at the apex, glabrous, membranous ; tendrils 

 undivided, glabrous ; male flowers disposed in racemes ; calyx 

 cylindrically campanulate, ventricose at the base, with a 5-parted 

 rose-coloured limb, having the segments roundish and longer 

 than the tube ; stamens 2, sessile. l(.. w . S. Native of New 

 Granada, in temperate places near Turbaco, at the height of 6000 

 feet. Flowers rose-coloured. 



7?ose-coloured-flowered Anguria. PI. cl. 



6 A. UMBROSA (H. B. et Kunth, 1. c. p. 121.) leaves pedately 

 5-parted, sinuately cordate ; lobes quite entire, ovate-lanceolate, 

 outer ones much the shortest and divaricate ; flowers panicled ; 

 peduncles very long; calyx roughish, having the tube ventricose 

 at the base, of a vermilion colour ; stamens 2, free ; anthers 

 linear ; female flowers unknown. If. . v ,. S. Native of the 



temperate provinces of New Andalusia, near Bordones and Cu- 

 manacoa. 



Shaded Anguria. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1827. PL cl. 



7 A. TRIFOLIA'TA (Lin. spec. 1576.) stems thickish, terete, 

 rugged ; tendrils simple ; leaves palmately ternate ; leaflets en- 

 tire : lateral ones unequal-sided ; male flowers in racemes pur- 

 ple ; tube of calyx long and ventricose ; peduncles short ; fruit 

 irregularly ovate-oblong, bluntly mucronate, 4-celled, green, 

 lined with white ; flesh of fruit red, and sweet. I/ . w . S. Na- 

 tive of St. Domingo. Plum. pi. amer. t. 99. 



Trifoliate Anguria. Fl. June, July. PL cl. 



Cult. The species of this genus delight in a light rich soil, 

 and may be propagated either from seeds or cuttings. 



f Genera allied to Cucurbitacece, but are not sufficiently 

 known. 



XXII. ZU'CCA (meaning unknown). Comm. in Poir. suppl. 

 5. p. 526. Ser. in D. C. prod. 3. p. 319. 



LIN. SYST. unknown. Flowers solitary, axillary. Bractea 

 large, concave, involving a large, coloured, 5-sepalled calyx, and 

 girded by 5 scales at the base. Stamens 5. A doubtful genus, 

 said to be related to the order Passiflorece ; but according to St. 

 Hilaire (mem. mus. 9. p. 190.) it belongs to Cucurbitacece, from 

 the lateral situation of the tendrils. 



1 Z. COMMERSONIA'NA (Ser. in D. C. prod. 3. p. 319.) Native 

 country unknown. 



Commerson's Zucca. PL cl. 



Cult. See Anguria for culture and propagation. 



XXIII. ALLA V SIA (aXXac, alias, a sausage ; from the colour 

 and form of the fruit resembling a sausage). Lour. coch. p. 85. 

 D. C. prod. 3. p. 319. 



LIN. SYST. Tetrdndria, Monogynia. Flowers hermaphrodite. 

 Calyx gamosepalous, girded by a short invohicrum ; segments 5, 

 acutish, hairy. Corolla 4-petalled ; petals roundish, very hairy, 

 small. Stamens 4 or perhaps 8 joined by twos ; anthers 2- 

 lobed 1 Style subulate ; stigma acute. Berry fleshy, large, 

 oblong, obtuse, pendulous, 1 -celled. Seeds imbedded in the 

 pulp, ovate, compressed, tumid. 



1 A. PA'YOS (Lour. 1. c.) a tree, with spreading unarmed 

 branches ; opposite digitate leaves ; the lobes 5, oval, quite en- 

 tire and pilose ; flowers nearly terminal, pale ; peduncles many- 

 flowered. Tj . S. Native of the eastern coast of Africa, on the 

 shores of Mozambique. Jaracatia Brasiliana, Pison, bras. p. 

 160. ex Lour. 1. c. Flowers pale. Fruit brownish-red. 



Payos Allasia. Tree. 



Cult. A light rich soil will suit this tree, and cuttings will 

 strike root in the same kind of soil under a hand-glass in heat. 



XXIV. GRONO'VIA (so named by Houston, in honour of 

 John Frederick Gronovius, M.D. a learned botanist of Leyden). 

 Lin. gen. no. 391. Juss. gen. p. 394. H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. 

 amer. 2. p. 119. 



LIN. SYST. Pentdndria, Monogynia. Flowers hermaphrodite. 

 Calyx funnel-shaped, 5-parted, coloured. Scales 5, linear, 

 petal-formed, pellucid, alternating with the calycine segments. 

 Stamens 5, free, alternating with the scales. Ovarium inferior. 

 Style 1 , crowned by a subcapitate stigma. Berry dry, nearly 

 globose, 1-seeded, crowned by the dry permanent calyx. 

 Climbing herbs, adhering by tendrils, with leaves like those of 

 Bryonta. Peduncles opposite, rather umbellate. Flowers dis- 

 posed in unilateral spikes, cymose, sessile, bracteate. 



1 G. SCA'KDENS (Lin. spec. 292.) Q.^.S. Native of Vera 

 Cruz. Jacq. coll. 3. p. 197. icon. rar. t. 338. Lam. ill. t. 144. 

 f. 2. G. Humboldtiana, Rcem. et Schult. syst. 5. p. 492. 

 Fruit ribbed, while young. Flowers greenish-yellow. Leaves 

 5-lobed. The hairs on the leaves sting like those of a nettle. 



Climbing Gronovia. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1731. PL cl. 



Cult. Being a tender annual plant, the seeds of it require to 

 be sown on a hot-bed ; and after the plants have grown a suffi- 

 cient size in the seed-pot, they should be potted off singly into 

 other pots, and after a time placed in the stove, and trained upon 

 sticks. 



XXV. KO'LBIA (this genus is dedicated to Peter Kolbe or 

 Kolben, a German traveller, who published a description of the 

 Cape of Good Hope). Beauv. fl. d'ow. 2. p. 91. t. 120. D. C. 

 prod. 3. p. 320. 



LIN. SYST. Dice~cia, Monadelphia. Flowers dioecious. Male 

 flowers with a gamosepalous calyx, composed of 5 joined sepals, 

 having a crenulated margin ; the corolla is gamopetalous, and 

 5-lobed ; lobes lanceolate, with glandular edges. Nectarium ? 

 5-leaved, having lanceolate lobes, which taper to the base, with 

 their edges plumosely ciliated. Stamens 5, monadelphous ; 

 filaments short ; anthers long, conniving. Pistillum unknown. 



1 K. E'LEGANS (Beauv. 1. c.) stem sarmentose, bearing ten- 

 drils; leaves glabrous, petiolate, cordate; peduncles 4-flowered. 

 I/ . w . S. Native of the western coast of Africa, in the king- 

 dom of Benin. Flowers red. Nectarium blue. 



Elegant Kolbia. PL cl. 



Cult. A light rich soil will suit this elegant plant, and cut- 

 tings will root in the same kind of mould under a hand-glass in 

 heat. 



ORDER CIV. PAPAYACE^E (this order contains only the 

 Papaw trees). Martius, 1829. Papayae, Agardh. 1824. 

 Cariceae, Turp. in atl. du diet, des sc. nat. 



Flowers unisexual. Calyx inferior, minute, 5-toothed. Co- 

 rolla monopetalous ; in the male tubular, with 5 lobes and 10 

 stamens, all arising from the same line, and of which those that 

 are opposite the lobes are sessile, the others on short filaments ; 

 anthers adnate, 2-celled, bursting longitudinally ; in the female 

 divided nearly to the base into 5 segments. Ovarium superior, 

 1-celled, with 5 parietal polyspermous placentas. Stigma ses- 

 sile, 5-lobed, lacerated. Fruit succulent, indehiscent, 1-celled, 

 with 5 polyspermous parietal placentas. Seeds enveloped in a 

 loose mucous coat, with a brittle pitted testa. Embryo in the 

 axis of the fleshy albumen, with flat cotyledons, and a terete 

 radicle, turned towards the hilum. Trees, without branches, 

 yielding an acrid milky juice. Leaves alternate, palmately 

 lobed, standing on long terete petioles. 



It was the opinion of Jussieu that the genus upon which this 

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