Cl. 15.] CUCURBITACEJE. 187 



Stigmas generally several. Fruit a Berry, with usually 

 a solid coat, of 1 cell, with 1 or numerous Seeds, or 

 of several many-seeded cells. Seeds cartilaginous or 

 crustaceous, inserted into lateral, or cortical, Recep- 

 tacles. Embryo flat, without Albumen. Root mostly 

 tuberous. Stem herbaceous, trailing, or climbing. 

 Leaves alternate, simple, heartshaped or palmate, 

 rarely digitate'' (or very deeply lobed), "often harsh 

 with callous points. Tendrils axillary. Flowerstalks 

 axillary, simple or many-flowered." 



Sect. 1. Style 1. Fruit of 1 cell, single-seeded. Gro- 

 novia and Sicyos. 



Sect. 2. Style 1. Fr. of 1 cell, with many Seeds. 

 Bryonia, fig. 270, and Elaterium. 



Sect. 3. Style 1. Fr. of many cells, with many 

 Seeds. Melothria, Anguria, Momordica^ Cucumis, 

 Cucurbita, Trichosanthes, and Ceratosanthes Burm. 



Sect. 4. Styles several. Doubtful Cucurbitacece. 

 Feuillea and Zanonia. 



Sect. 5. Genera akin to Cucurbitacece, but espe- 

 cially different in having a superior Germen. Passi- 

 flora, fig. 271, from which Jussieu separates, surely 

 without sufficient grounds, Murucuia and Tacsonia, 

 (the latter distinguished by it's tubular Calyx, which 

 serves at least to show that this Order has a real Ca- 

 lyx and Corolla,) and Carica (Papaya Juss.). 



The Modecca (a barbarous name) of Rheede Hort. 

 Malab, v. 8. t. 20-23, mentioned by Jussieu under 



