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collateraliter extrorsum affixis, singulis rima longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Ovarium medio disci 
insitum, subtrigonoideum, depressum, triloculare ; ovula in loculis solitaria, suspensa: stylus brevis- 
simus : stigma obtuse trilobum. Drupa majuscula, cylindrico-oblonga, utrinque obtusa, subangulata, 
indehiscens, pericarpio crasso, abortu 1-locularis, monosperma : semen cylindro-oblongum, exalbumi- 
nosum, testa membranacea. Cetera ignota. 
Frutices scandentes Americe intertropice : folia opposita, elliptica vel oblonga, integra vel obsolete serrata, 
breviter petiolata: paniculæ axillares, dichotome ramose, bracteolate : flores parvi, vel minimi, glabri. 
1. SICYOMORPHA PRUINOSA, nob.: Salacia pruinosa, Seem. Bot. Her. 90; Walp. Ann. iv. 
369: scandens, ramulis teretibus, lenticellis concavis verruculato-asperatis: foliis 
. lanceolato-oblongis, infra medium sensim angustioribus, imo rotundato-obtusis, sum- 
mum versus subacutis, acumine brevi obtusulo apiculatis, integris, marginibus sub- 
cartilagineis vix revolutis, supra glauco-viridibus, costa nervisque reticulatis paulo 
prominulis, subnitidis, opace pruinosis, sub lente punctulis albis minutissimis obso- 
lete piliferis creberrime granulatis, subtus brunnescentibus, nervis tenuissimis 
arcuatim nexis venisque transversis reticulatis paulo prominentibus, subopacis, sub 
lente minutissime granulatis; petiolo canaliculato, subruguloso, limbo 14-plo bre- 
viore: panieulis axillaribus, cymulosis, petiolo paulo longioribus, breviter peduncu- 
latis, repetitim dichotome divisis, fuscis, glabris, pedunculo ramulisque verruculato- 
asperatis; bracteolis parvis, oppositis, fimbriatis; floribus parvis, in ultimis ramulis 
geminis, brevissime pedicellatis, hine subcongestis; sepalis rotundatis, erectis, 
crassis, pectinato-fimbriatis; petalis duplo longioribus, oblongis, carnosulis, cur- 
vatim reflexis, margine ciliato-denticulatis ; disco breviter tubuloso, carnosulo, mar- 
gine crenulato; filamentis linearibus, erectis, disco triplo longioribus; stylo brevi, 
subtereti; stigmate parvo, obtuse trilobo: fructu immaturo subcylindrice oblongo, 
cucumiformi, pallide flavo. In Panama: v. s. in herb. Hook., Tapistra Oau (Seemann, 
1219); Veraguas (Seemann); in uliginosis prope Panama (Hayes, 652). 
A scandent shrub, with somewhat slender branches, having their axils about ¿ in. 
apart; the leaves are 4-7 in. long, 11-21 in. broad, on a petiole 33-5 lines long; the 
axillary panicle is 8 lines long, its peduncle being 3 lines, the primary branches 2 lines, 
the secondary 13 line, the others diminishing gradually; the flowers are very small, 
barely 1 line in diameter when expanded. The immature fruit, of a light yellow colour, 
bearing the appearance of a young cucumber, is 13-2 in. long, 4 inch in diameter, and 
fuscous when dried, with an obsoletely granular surface: it is 2-celled, with a thick hard 
pericarp, consisting of white transverse linear erustaceous subligneous cells, and a softish 
endocarp: the cells are empty. 
2. SICYOMORPHA PERUVIANA, nob.: ramulis tenerrimis, virgatis, teretibus, lenticellis pal- 
lidis, rugulosis, substriatis: foliis oblongis, imo cuneatim acutis et in petiolo sub- 
decurrentibus, summum versus obtusatis et in acumen obtusulum subbreve subito 
attenuatis, subflaccidis, integerrimis, aut obsolete serrato-sinuatis, supra valde 
viridibus, subnitentibus, nervis tenuibus arcuatim nexis, venis transversis crebre 
reticulatis, subglauco-opacis, sub lente minutissime granulatis, subtus pallidioribus, 
ferrugineo-brunneis, opacis, nervis venisque prominulis, sparsim granulosis; petiolo 
