376 CUCUEBITACEAE. 



Order 9. CAMPANULALES. 



Herbs, rarely shrubs, the corolla gamopetalous, or petals sometimes 

 separate in Cucurbitaceae. Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes (fewer 

 in the Cucurbitaceae) ; anthers united except in Campanula and Specu- 

 laria of the Campanulaceae, in Ambrosiaceae, and in Kuhnia of the Com- 

 positae. Ovary inferior. 



Flowers not in involucrate heads ; juice mostly milky. 

 Endosperm none ; flowers regular, monoecious or 



dioecious ; our species vines. Fam. 1. Cucurbitaceae. 



Endosperm present, fleshy ; flowers perfect, irregular. 

 Stigma not indusiate. 

 Stigma indusiate. 

 Flowers in involucrate heads. 



Flowers all expanded into rays (ligulate) ; juice 



milky. 

 Flowers all tubular, or the outer expanded into rays ; 

 juice very rarely milky. 

 Stamens distinct, or nearly so. 



Stamens united by their anthers into a tube 

 around the style (except in Kuhnia). 



Family 1. CUCURBITACEAE B. Juss. 

 Gourd Family. 



Herbaceous vines, usually with tendrils. Leaves alternate, petioled, 

 generally palmately lobed or dissected. Flowers monoecious or dioecious. 

 Calyx-tube adnate to the ovarv^ its limb usually 5-lobed, the lobes imbri- 

 cated. Petals usually 5, inserted on the limb of the calyx, separate, or 

 united into a gamopetalous corolla. Stamens mostly 3 (sometimes 1), 2 

 of them with 2-celled anthers, the other with a 1-celled anther; filaments 

 short, often somewhat monadelphous. Ovary 1-3-celled ; style terminal, 

 simple, or lobed; ovules anatropous. Fruit a pepo, indehiscent, or rarely 

 dehiscent at the summit, or bursting irregularly; or sometimes dry and 

 membranous. Seeds usually flat; endosperm none. About 90 genera and 

 700 species, mainly of tropical regions. 



There are no native nor naturalized species of the family in Bermuda. 



Cucurbita Lagenaria L., Gourd, of the Old World tropics, is grown for 

 interest and its fruit sometimes cut into utensils. 



Cucurbita maxima Duchesne, Squash, probably Asiatic in origin, com- 

 monly grown for its fruit, has round or reniform, unlobed leaves, monoecious 

 yellow axillary flowers, the fruit various in form. 



Cucurbita Pepo L., Pumpkin, perhaps tropical American, is one of the 

 most important summer and autumn crops of Bermuda, and is grown in a 

 number of races, the seed sown in late spring, the fruit large and of excellent 

 quality. The vine bears large 2-5-lobed leaves and solitary monoecious yellow 

 flowers in the leaf-axils, the corolla large and bell-shaped. [C. Melopepo L.] 



Cucurbita moschata Duchesne, Crookneck Squash, perhaps East Indian, 

 is recorded by Jones as grown in Bermuda. 



Sechium edule (Jacq.) Sw., Chocho, Christophixe, West Indian, a long 

 vine, with thin suborbicular leaves 5'-10' broad, cordate and angular-lobed, the 

 tendrils 3-5-cleft, the yellowish staminate flowers in long axilary racemes or 

 narrow panicles with a solitary pistillate flower at the same axil, the muricate 

 or smooth fruit obovoid, 3'-5' long, is cultivated for its fruit. [Sicyos edulis 

 Jacq.] 



