PASSIFLOBE^ 593 



just beneath the petiole, brownish-green, ultimately shrubby, 

 fleshy ; 1st internode 8 mm. long ; 2nd 4 mm ; 3rd 6 mm ; 4th 

 3-5 mm. 



Leaves simple, cauline, alternate, stipulate, petiolate, three- to 

 seven-nerved at the base, alternately nerved upwards, reticulate, 

 hairy on the nerves beneath, and subglandular-ciliate, deep shining 

 green above, glaucous or whitish beneath, with numerous small 

 glands at the junction of lamina and petiole on the upper side, and 

 a few small scattered ones on the midrib and principal nerves ; 

 petioles tapering upwards from a stout base, subterete, channelled 

 on the upper side, glabrous except on the under side especially at 

 the base ; stipules small, tooth-like, tipped with a pale-coloured 

 gland, seated on the somewhat decurrent base of the petiole. 



No. 1. Oblong-cordate, obtuse, five-nerved at the base, with 

 about two sinuate or repand obtuse teeth on each side. 



No. 2. Similar, but angled or bilobulate on each side below 

 the middle. 



No. 3. Cordate-ovate, with one to two teeth on each side towards 

 the base. 



Nos. 4 and 5. Cordate, elongate, with two to three repand teeth 

 on each side. 



Nos. 6-8. Palmate, elongate, five-nerved at the base, three- or 

 slightly five-lobed ; basal lobes small, triangular, or tooth-like ; 

 middle lobes larger, triangular, subacute ; terminal one much the 

 largest, triangular-ovate, subacute, entire or slightly toothed. 



CUCURBITACE.E. 



Benth. et Hook. Gen. PI. i. 810. 



Fruit and Seed. The ovary, consisting for the most part 

 of three carpels, is inferior, in a few cases free at the apex. 

 It is three-, rarely one- or two-celled, or spuriously four- to 

 five-celled. The species belonging to the tribe Elaterieae are 

 altogether abnormal ; some have a one- or two-celled ovary, 

 others are many-celled by the development of spurious septa 

 between the seeds. Normally the placentas are parietal, 

 fleshy, very often confluent in the axis of the ovary, and again 

 reflexed towards the circumference. The ovules are pen- 

 dulous, horizontal, or ascending and anatropous ; and in 

 ovaries consisting of one carpel they vary from one to two and 



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