GURANIA , CUCURBITACEÆ (AUCT. COGNIAUX). 697 
Folia supra intense viridia, subtus cinerea, margine minute spinuloso- 
denticulata, 25-30 cent. longa, 30-35 cent. lata, plerumque trilobata ; 
lobis ovatis, apice rotundatis obtusis vel breviter acutis ; nervi validi, 
subtus prominentes et tenuiter reticulati, duo laterales basilares 
bifurcati, imum sinum marginantes; sinus inter lobos angusti, acuti, 
basilaris 5-6 cent. profundus, ad medium 2-4 cent. et ad imum 5-6 
cent. latus. Cirrhi robusti, elongatissimi, striati, breviter villosi. 
Flores masculi parvuli, capitato-subcorymbosi. Peduneulus communis 
robustus, striatus, breviter villoso-hirsutus, 25-30 cent. longus. Pedi- 
celli patuli, satis graciles, dense tomentosi, apice dilatati, 6-10 mill. 
longi. Calix cinereus, tubo 7-10 mill. longo, 3-4 mill. lato ; dentibus 
leviter undulatis, 3-5 mill. longis, ad basim 1-1*/, mill. latis. Petala 
erecta, linearia, acuta, utrinque brevissime papillosa, 3-5 mill. longa, 
ad basim 1 “/, mill. lata. Antherz 7-8 mill. longe, 2-2*/, mill. late : 
appendix 1-1:/, mill. longa. Flores feminei fasciculati. Peduneulus 
crassus, dense tomentosus, 8-12 mill. longus. Calycis tubus 12-15 
Mill. longus. Ovarium fusiforme, sparse villosum, 20-25 mill. longum, 
3-4 mill. crassum; stylus carnosus, glaber, 10-12 mill. longus, 3-3 */, 
mill. erassus, fere usque ad basim bifidus, segmentis bilobis. Pedun- 
culus fructiferus 3-5 cent. longus. Fructus fusiformis, glaber, lævis, 
6-7 cent. longus, 15-16 mill. crassus. Semina cinerea, lævia, 6-6 '/, 
Mill. longa, 3-3 /, mill. lata, 1 '/, mill. crassa. ; 
. In Colombia ad Puenta a Curucuti (Wagener n. 202 sec. Schlecht.); 
in Venezuela prope coloniam Tovar (Fendler n. 490 in herb. Brux., 
DC., Francav., Boiss., Deless., Kew., hort. Gotting.); (?) in Mexico 
(Sehiede n. 202 in herb. Berol. — Wagener n. 202?). 
7 93. €. spinulosa (Cogn. Diagn. Cucurb., fase. 1, p. 17, fasc. 2, 
P. 11, tab. 1, fig. 11); foliis magnis, suborbicularibus, supra pubes- 
“enti-subscabris, subtus dense pubescentibus vel subtomentosis, basi 
profunde emarginatis, usque ad medium trilobatis, lobis ovatis trian- 
gularibus vel oblongo-lanceolatis, acutis vel subacuminatis; calyce 
dense tomentoso, tubo cylindrico, inferne subrotundo, ad apicem levi- 
ter constricto, dentibus linearibus, erectis, tubo dimidio brevioribus : 
antheris lineari-oblongis, appendice longa lineari coronatis. — Cogn. 
m Mart. Fl. Bras. fasc. 78, p. 53. — Anguria spinulosa Peepp. et 
Endl.! Nov. gen. ac spec. 2, p. 51, tab. 170 ; Schlecht. in Linnæa, 
A, p. 726, 
“Planta scandens, caulibus haud raro viginti pedes longis, digitum 
assis, suberoso lignosis, superne carnosis, herbaceis, » profunde sul- 
