APODANTHFRA. CUCURBITACEJE (AUCT. COGNIAUX). 561 
nusve bifida; nervi tenues, vix prominentes. Cirrhi graciles, elongati, 
leviter pubescentes. Pedunculus communis masculus gracilis, striatus, 
leviter pubescens, 2-6 cent. longus; pedicelli gracillimi, erecto-patuli, 
ebracteati, 5-10 mill. longi. Calyx flavo-viridis, tubo cylindrico, ad 
basim leviter attenuato, intus annulo pilorum munito, 5 mill. longo, 
2-2 */, mill. lato, dentibus linearibus, erectis, 2 mill. longis, '/, mill. 
latis. Petala virescentia, erecta, lanceolata, extus pubescentia, intus 
villosa, dentes calycis superantia. Antheræ supra partem inferiorem 
tubi calyeis insertæ, lineares oblongæ, 3 mill. longæ, biloculares 
1 mill. latæ, loculis rectis. — Flores feminei et fructus ignoti. 
In sylvaticis Brasiliæ ad flumen Ilheos (Prine. Neuwied in herb. 
Brux.); in prov. Minas Geraes (St-Hilaire B* n. 1581 in herb. Mus. 
Par.); ad Caxoeira prov. Bahia (Martius in herb. Monac.). 
9. A. biflora (Cogn. Diagn. Cucurb. fasc. 2, p. 43); dioica; foliis 
subtriangularibus, integris vel profunde trilobatis, supra glabris et 
tenuiter punetatis, subtus scabris; cirrhis simplicibus; floribus mas- 
culis magnis, pedunculo communi sparse pubescenti, bifloro; calyce 
longe albo tomentoso. 
« Herba reptans scandensve, subramosa, 6-pedalis. » Caulis gracil- 
limus, striatus, sparse pubescens demum subglaber. Petiolus gracilis, 
striatus, sparse villoso-hirsutus, 3-6 cent. longus. Folia supra leete 
viridia, subtus pallida, margine minutissime remoteque spinuloso- 
denticulata, 5-13 cent. longa lataque, lobis triangularibus, acutis, 
terminale apiculato longiore; nervi tenues, subtus leviter prominen- 
tes; sinus basilaris late rotundatus, 2-4 cent. latus, '/,-2 cent. pro- 
fundus. Cirrhi filiformes, breves, subglabri. Pedunculus communis 
masculus gracilis, vix striatus, sparse pilosus, demum glaber. 
5-10 cent. longus; pedicelli erecti, villosi præcipue ad apicem, sæpius 
Mæquales, 2-5 cent. longi. Calycis tubus subeylindricus, basi subacu- 
tus, apice dilatatus, 15-17 mill. longus, 3 mill. crassus; dentes erecto- 
patuli, lineari-subulati, ad apicem subglabri, 11-13 mill. longi, ad 
asim 1 */,-2 mill. lati. Petala flavida, oblongo-lanceolata, acuta api- 
culataque, 5-7- nervia, utrinque glabra, issime puntata, 25-35 mill. 
longa, 8-12 mill. lata. Antheræ oblongæ, 5 mill. longæ, 1-1 */, mill. 
late, connectivo lato, loculis utrinque leviter incurvatis. — Flores 
feminei et fructus ignoti. 
: In Ecuadore ad Chanduy, in litore Maris Pacifici (Spruce n. 6462 
m herb. DC., Boiss., Van H., Mus. Par., hort. Petrop., Kew., Brit. 
Mus., Edin.), 
Surres au Prodromus III. * 
