MELOTHRIA . CUCURBITACEÆ (AUCT. COGNIAUX). 587 
Gray); in Texas (Vinzent n. 96; Wiedemann; Drummondin. 38; Tre- 
cul n. 1346); in Neo-Mexico (Wright); in Mexico (Pavon); prope 
Vera-Cruz (Wawra n. 438); ad Cerra del Olométe (de Karwinsky) ; 
in riv. Goacacoalcos (Mairet); in China prope Macao (Fontanier). 
B, chlorocarpa. Fructus flavus, 1 */, cent. longus, 1 cent. crassus. 
Semina 5-5 */, mill. longa, 3 mill. lata. — M. chlorocarpa Engelm. ! 
in El. Hall, Pl. Tex. n. 230; A. Gray, Hall's Pl. Tex. p. 9. 
In Texas orientali (El. Hall n. 230 in herb. Boiss.). 
7, aspera. Petiolus hirsutus. Folia 2-3 cent. longa lataque, utrin- 
que scaberrima, profunde lobata, lobis oblongis, sæpius integerrimis, 
obtusis; nervi subtus hirsuti. Fructus et semina ut in var. a. 
In Florida, ad margines agrorum prope lac. Jamony (Rugel in 
herb. DC.). 
ò, microcarpa. Caulis repens, filiformis. Petiolus filiformis, 1-3 cent. 
longus. Folia leviter lobata, 1 '/,-3 cent. longa lataque, utrinque sca- 
bra. Fructus subglobosus, 7-8 mill. crassus. — M. microcarpa Shuttl.! 
in Rugel, Pl. exsice. 
In Alabama, ad canalem Muscle Shoals, ad fluv. Tenessee (Rugel 
in herb. Shuttleworth nunc Brit. Mus., DC., Boiss.). 
10. M. hirsuta (Cogn. in Mart. Fl. Bras. fasc. 78, p. 28, tab. 5, 
fig. 2); foliis crassiusculis, rigidis, ovato-cordatis vel suborbicularibus, 
integris, regulariter denticulatis vel leviter mucronato-crenulatis, 
Supra scabris, subtus villoso-hispidis; racemis masculis 7-12-floris, 
folio brevioribus: calyce campanulato, dentibus minimis, linearibus ; 
petalis obtusis; antherarum loculis rectis vel leviter arcuatis; fructu 
parvo, flavescente, plerumque biloculari. 
Caulis scandens, 1 '/,-9 mill. crassus, subramosus, sulcatus, longe 
villoso-hirsutus, ad altitudinem plurium metrorum assurgens. Petiolus 
teres, longe denseque villoso-hirsutus, 1-3 cent. longus. Folia 5-7 cent. 
longa, 4-5 cent. lata, utrinque cinerea, nervis utrinque hirsutis ; sinus 
basilaris subacutus, 1 1/,-2 cent. profundus, '/,-1 cent. latus. Cirrhi 
graciles, breves, leviter villosi. Flores minimi. Pedunculus communis 
masculus filiformis, villosus, 2-4 cent. longus; pedicelli 1-2 mill. 
Ongi. Calyx 2 mill. longus, 1 Y, mill. latus, ad basim subrotundus, 
dentibus */, mill. longis, Corolla lutea, 4-5-fida, segmentis erectis, 
ovatis vel ovato-oblongis, trinerviis, presertim ad apicem villosis. 
Antheræ orbiculares, loculis oblongis, glabris, connectivo ad apicem 
latiore ciliato. Pedunculus femineus filiformis, leviter villosus, '/,-2 
cent. longus, Ovarium ovoideo-oblongum, 3-4 mill. longum, 1 */,-2 mill. 
