APODANTHERA . CUCURBITACEÆ (AUCT. COGNIAUX). 555 
1. Flores magni; caulis elongatus. 
a. i m. sparse pubescens, ad basim leviter dilatatus; folia subin- 
d e eo EA e e ON Un s Je seinen 11. undulata. 
b. d tomentosus, ad basim attenuatus; folia 3-5-lobata....... 12. Buræavi. 
2. Flores parvi (1 centim.); caulis vix 1 decim. longus........... 13. Galeottii. 
Sect. I. — EUAPODANTHERA Cogn. Diagn. Cucurb. fasc. 2, p. 39. 
Folia membranacea, glabra vel molliter villosa rarissime scabra. 
Flores sæpissime parvi, ebracteati. 
1. A. mucronata (Cogn. Diagn. Cucurb. fasc. 2, p. 40); dioica; 
foliis ambitu suborbicularibus, supra pubescenti-scabris, subtus leviter 
tomentosis, leviter 3-5-lobatis, lobis ovatis, mucronatis; cirrhis bifi- 
dis; racemis masculis 8-20-floris; pedicellis æqualiter villosis; calyce 
glabro. 
Caulis gracilis, striatus, leviter pubescens. Petiolus satis robustus, 
striatus, villoso-subtomentosus, 1 */,-2 '/, cent. longus. Folia supra 
intense viridia, subtus albo-cinerea, 9-12 cent. longa lataque, usque 
ad medium lobata, lobis margine remote subulato-denticulatis, supe- 
riore paulo longiore; sinus inter lobos lati, subacuti, basilaris subro- 
tundatus, vix '/, cent. latus, 2-3 cent. profundus; nervi tenues, subtus 
leviter prominentes. Cirrhi satis graciles, elongati, striati, sparse 
pilosi. Pedunculus communis masculus gracilis, suleatus, sparse hir- 
tello-pilosus, 9-19 cent. longus; pedicelli filiformes, erecto-patuli, 
flexuosi, dense breviterque villosi, 8-20 mill. longi. Calycis tubus sub- 
cylindricus, basi breviter attenuatus, apice vix dilatatus, 9-10 mill. 
longus, 2 mill. crassus; dentes erecti, triangulares, acuti, obscure 
plurinervii, 1 */,-2 mill. longi, 1 !/, mill. lati. Petala erecta, ovato- 
oblonga, obtusa, plurinervia, brevissime villosa præcipue ad apicem, 
? mill. longa, 2 mill. lata. Antheræ biloculares oblongo-rectangulares, 
2-4 mill. longæ, 1 */, mill. latæ, loculis rectis, connectivo ultra loculos 
vix producto. — Flores feminei et fructus ignoti. 
In Peruvia (Ruiz in herb. Berol. ; Pavon in herb. Boiss.). 
2. A. Mathewsii (Arn.! in Hook. Journ. of Bot. 3, p. 274, — 
nomen tantum); dioica; foliis ambitu late suborbicularibus, supra 
Pübescenti-scabriuseulis, subtus tomentosis, leviter trilobatis, lobis 
triangularibus, subacutis; cirrhis bifidis; racemis masculis 8-12-floris; 
pedicellis ad basim subglabris, ad apicem tomentosis ; calyce ad basim 
villoso, — Cogn. Diagn. Cucurb. fase. 2, p. 40. 
