194 Plante Lindheimeriane. 
Guadaloupe, “apparently indigenous.” September. This 
has also been cultivated in the Cambridge Botanic Garden. 
The column sometimes contains as many as four stamens. 
The pyriform fruit is just that of C. ovifera, of which our 
plant may possibly be only a naturalized variety. 
401. Lacenaria vutearis, Seringe. Bottom woods, Co- 
male Creek. September. Probably early naturalized. The 
fruit is said to be globose. 
(612.) Srcyprom (an Melothrie sect.?) LinpHEmeri 
(sp. nov.): radice crassa perenni; foliis subreniformibus 
carnosis 3—5-lobatis partitisve et sinuato-dentatis tuberculis 
vel pustulis subtus prominulis scabratis ceterum cauleque 
gslabris; pedunculo in pl. mascula atque fceminea folio bre- 
viore, masculo 3 —9-floro, feemineo unifloro; calyce fl. mase. 
infundibuliformi, foem. supra ovarium longe producto anguste 
tubuloso, lobis petalis oblongis duplo brevioribus; bacca 
globosa rubra (diametro pollicari) ; seminibus abortu paucis 
turgidis rotundatis subcompressis submarginatis hilo biden- 
tatis. — Thickets, from New Braunfels to the Liano; pro- 
cumbent or climbing. June. (Also gathered in Texas, by 
Mr. Charles Wright.) — Root large and fleshy. Stems slen- 
der. Leaves succulent, from one to three inches in diameter, 
either moderately or deeply lobed. Flowers from one third 
to half an inch in length, greenish ; the calyx of the sterile 
tubular-funnel form. Stamens 3, subsessile in the throat of 
the calyx; two of them bilocular, the thece separated by a 
rather broad and slightly two-lobed connective; the third of 
only one theca (or, as taken by some authors, 5 and triadel- 
phous); the loculi linear-oblong, straight. Fertile flowers 
with the calyx-tube constricted above the globular ovary and 
prolonged into a rather slender beak, then funnel-form like 
the sterile, but bearing rather longer subulate calyx-lobes. 
Sterile filaments 3, short, one of them simple, the two others 
two-cleft, subulate. Petals, as in the sterile flower, entire, ob- 
scurely ciliate, oblong, a little narrowed below, unconnected, 
separately inserted into the throat of the calyx. Style a 
