440 DICOTYLEDONEJE. MOMORDICA , 
latis. Staminum filamenta crassa, 1-2 mill. longa ; antheræ ovate, 
21/,-3 mill. longæ, loculis flexuosis, connectivo lato. Pedunculus femi- 
neus */,-1 '/, cent. longus, ebracteatus vel ad basim bracteatus. Caly- 
cis segmenta lineari-lanceolata. Ovarium fusiforme, rostratum, verru- 
eulosum. Fructus aurantiaco-ruber, rostratus, carnosus, 3-6 cent. 
longus. Semina cinerea, ovata, compressa, utrinque facie tenuiter 
verruculosa, margine subintegra, 10-11 mill. longa, 7 mill. lata, 
2 */, mill. crassa. 
Habitat ubique in tropicis et subtropicis utriusque orbis, sed in 
America verosimiliter introducta. In Africa australi (Drége; Zeyher 
n. 594, 595; Burke); in Zanzibar (Kirk; Hildebrandt n. 975); in 
Suakin et Berber (Schweinfurth n. 220); in Nubia superiora (Figari); 
in Sennaar (Kotschy n. 235; Schweinfurth n. 96); in Cordofan (Kot- 
schy n. 304; Pfund n. 170); in Aegyptia (Ehrenberg; Hartmann); in 
Arabia felici (Fischer n. 62; Schimper n. 850; Ehrenberg); prope 
Mascate (Aucher-Eloy n. 4500); in India boreali (Royle); in Scinde 
(Stocks); in Punjab (Hook. f.; Thomson; Edgeworth n. 67); in Aus- 
tralia ad Rockhampton (Dallachie), prope Warregram (Carter); in 
Nova-Anglia (Hurry); ad Port-Denison (Fitzalan); ad Morton-Bay 
(Leichart n. 5 et 27); in Louisiana (Rafinesque in herb. Mus. Par.); 
in Texas (Matthes n. 365); in Mexico (Berlandier n. 2246); in Cuba 
(Ramon de la Sagra); in Porto-Rico (Plée); in Jamaica (Macfadyen); 
in Nova Granata ad litus maris Caribæi prope Savanilla (E. André); 
in Peruvia (Spruce n. 6461). 
10. M. involuerata (E. Meyer.! in herb. Drège); foliis ambitu 
suborbicularibus, glabris, ad medium 3-5-lobatis, lobis rhomboideis. 
dentato-lobulatis; cirrhis simplicibus ; pedunculo masculo apice brae- 
teato; bractea reniformi, integerrima ; calycis segmentis ovato-subor- 
bicularibus, obtusis ; fructu ovato-subgloboso, tuberculato. — Sond.! 
in Harv. et Sond. Fl. Cap., 2, p. 491; Saunders Ref. Bot., tab. 223. 
— M. Huberii Todaro! in Giorn, del R. Inst. Agric. in Sicilia, 1969. 
p. 165. — M. Balsamina var. leucantha Ch. Huber! Cat. 1864, p- 6. 
— M. Balsamina, var. Huberii Naud.! in Ann. sc. nat. ser. 5, V- 5, 
21. 
Caulis gracillimus, ramosus, sulcatus, glaber. Petiolus gracilis, 
striatus, subglaber, 2-6 cent. longus. Folia supra intense viridia. 
subtus læte viridia, utrinque lævia, 4-9 cent. longa lataque; lobis ad 
basim sepius constrictis, apice obtusis et longe mucronatis, extern?" 
multo brevioribus; sinus inter lobos satis angusti, obtusi, basilaris 
