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duncles, red; leaves 2-3 cm. broad and two-thirds as Ong, 
deeply 3- -lobed, the lobes obsoletely serrate-dentate and with 
a light colored narrow margin, oblong or lance-oblong, the 
apex rounded, 2 cm. long, 10-15 mm. broad ; tendrils simple ; 
peduncles solitary, axillary, slender, 20-25 mm. long; involucral 
bracts foliaceous, distinct, elliptical oblong, entire, 1-5-пегуед, 
7 mm. long by 3 mm. epus tube of perianth 10- nerved, cylin- 
drical, 12-14 mm. long and (as pressed) about 5 mm. broad; 
calyx lobes (color?) phn I.I cm. long by 5 mm. wide, oblong ; 
petals (violet?) about 8 n long; crown very small, mem- 
ranaceous, irregularly кы, gynoecium somewhat ех- 
serted, 2 cm. long, the ovary oblon 
Vic. Cochabamba, 1891 (880). Distributed as Passiflora. 
CUCURBITACEE. 
Melothria Hookeri, Cogn. in D. C. Monog. Phan. iii. 588. Yungas, 
1890 (258).-- Rusby 2065. 
SICYOS TRIGEMINA, sp. п. Stems slender, yellowish, angled, pubes- 
cent with soft spreading hairs, the tendrils simple; leaves 
distant, the petioles 4-6 cm. long, sparsely hispidulous ; blade 
mem mbranaceous, triangular-ovate, 6-8 cm. long, 7-10 cm. 
broad, angulate or indistinctly 3-lobed, narrowly acuminate, 
acute, the angles acutish, cordate with sinus broad and rounded 
or slightly tru ncate, 3-nerved, the veins prominent, the princi- 
pal ones елан? dichotomous, underneath minutely hispid, 
above more sparingly so but the trichomes longer, the margin 
spinulose-dentate, the teeth whitish, short, stout and blunt; 
long; pedicels slender, at length 8 mm. long, persistent after 
the fall of the flowers, which are 7 mm. broad; pistillate 
ovoid to oblong-ovoid, compressed, slightly 2-3-angled, when 
young villous, bearing few yellowish prickles from slight tuber- 
cles, 4 mm. long by 2.5 mm. broad (mature?) yellowish with 
green, abruptly acuminate apex; ee (mature?) elliptical 
oblong, 1.7 mm. long by 1 mm. broad. 
Vic. Cochabama, 1891 (991). Distributed as Melothria. 
Gurania lanata, Cogn. Diagn. Cucurb., fasc. 1, 26, fasc. 2, t. 1, fig. 
2. Yungas, 1890 (628). 
GURANIA BOLIVIANA, sp. n. Large and stout, more or less ferru- 
ginous tomentose throughout, the stem, petioles, peduncles 
and tendrils many-angled; petiole (but one seen) 1 dm. long; 
leaf sub-rotund, 2 dm. long and slightly broader, angulately 3- 
lobed for one-fourth to one-third of the distance to the base, 
