. 550 DICOTYLEDONEXÆ. CUCURBITA. 
Caulis gracilis, sulcatus, satis dense breviterque villoso-hirsutus. 
Petiolus crassus, striatus. breviter villoso-hirsutus, 4-5 cent. longus. 
Folia carnosa, supra viridi-cinerea, subtus canescenti-cinerea, utrin- 
que dense breviterque hispida præcipue subtus, 5-8 cent. longa lata- 
que, lobis acutis; sinus basilaris subrotundatus, 1-1 '/, cent. profundus. 
Cirrhi 3-4-fidi, brevissimi vel interdum subnulli. Pedunculus mas- 
culus tenuiter striatus, breviter villoso-hirsutus, 3-4 cent. longus. 
Calycis tubus satis dense breviterque villoso-hirsutus, superne leviter 
dilatatus, basi rotundatus et leviter ventricosus, 2 */, cent. longus, 
inferne 7 mill. et ad apicem 1'/, cent. latus; dentes erecti, 6 mill. 
longi. Corolla anguste campanulata, sparse breviterque villosa, 6 cent. 
longa, segmentis triangulari-lanceolatis, apice acutis apiculatisque, 
extus virentibus, intus et in margine intense aurantiacis. Fructus glo- 
bosus. Semina 1 cent. longa. 
n California australi, distr. San Diego (Palmer n. 108 in herb. 
hort. Petrop. et Brit. Mus.; Cleveland in herb. Kew.). 
8. €. Californica (Torr. mss. ex Wats. in Proceed. Americ. 
Acad. 11, p. 138); foliis ambitu suborbicularibus, usque ad medium 
palmato-5-lobatis, lobis triangulari-lanceolatis, subintegerrimis, sinu- 
bus inter eos acutis; pedunculis masculis gracilibus ; floribus parvis; 
calycis tubo elongato, anguste campanulato-subeylindrico, dentibus 
brevissimis, linearibus. 
Pedunculus masculus brevis. Flores circiter 2 */, cent. longi. — 
Planta imperfecte cognita. 
In California, valle flum. Sacramento (Dr. Pickering $e 
Wats: 1. c.). 
> 9. C. fœtidissima (Kth! in Humb. et Bonpl. Nov. gen. et spec. 
2, p. 123); foliis anguste triangularibus, carnosis, integris, apice ob- 
tusis, basi truncatis vel vix emarginatis; calycis tubo brevi, campa- 
nulato, basi rotundato, segmentis linearibus, tubo brevioribus ; corolla 
molliter puberula, segmentis mollibus, apice truncatis apiculatisque- 
— Kth. Syn. 1, p. 429; Ser. in DC. Prodr. 3, p. 318; Rem. Syn. 
fasc. 2, p. 89. — Cucumis perennis E. James! Exped. Rocky Mount. 
2, p. 345; Isis, 1824, p. 235; Ser. in DC. 1. e. p. 302; Torr. et Gr. Pl 
N. Amer. 1, p. 543; Roem. 1. c. p. 80. — Cucurbita perennis À. Gray: 
Pl. Lindh. 2, p. 193 et Pl. Wright. part. 2, p. 60; Naud. in Rev. 
hort. 1855, p. 61 cum ic. et in Ann. sc. nat. ser. 4, v. 6, p- 54; ME 
hort. 1857, p. 53, fig. 27; Delponte in Mem. de Turin, 26, P- 137, 
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