| GURANIA. CUCURBITACEÆ (AUCT. COGNIAUX). 705 
fT Calycis dentes tubo breviores vel rarius æquales. 
30. G. Durandii (Cogn. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 17, p. 293); foliis 
ovatis vel suborbieularibus, supra leviter pubescenti-scabris, subtus 
primum pubescenti-tomentosis demum scabris, basi truncatis vel levi- 
ter emarginatis, profunde 3-5-lobatis, lobis ovatis vel oblongo-lanceo- 
latis, acutis vel subacuminatis; calyce brevissime tomentoso, tubo 
subcylindrico, dentibus lineari-lanceolatis subulatis erectis, tubo dimi- 
dio brevioribus; antheris lineari-oblongis, appendice longa lineari 
Coronatis. — G. subumbellata Cogn. in Mart. Fl. Bras., fasc. 78, 
p. 56, excl. syn. 
Caulis gracilis, profunde sulcatus, pubescens. Petiolus satis gracilis, 
striatus, breviter villosus, 5-7 cent. longus. Folia membranacea, supra 
intense viridia, subtus pallidiora, 12-15 cent. longa, 10-20 cent. lata, 
lobis minute remoteque dentatis, superiore longiore ad basim leviter 
constricto; nervi tenues, subtus leviter prominentes, duo laterales 
2-3-furcati imum sinum marginantes; sinus inter lobos satis angusti, 
obtusi, basilaris subnullus vel subrectangularis. Cirrhi graciles, 
striati, elongati, pubescentes. Flores masculi parvuli, 15-25 ad apicem 
pedunculi communis congesti. Pedunculus communis satis robustus, 
striatus, breviter villosus, 25-40 cent. longus; pedicelli erecti, teretes, 
cavi, breviter tomentosi, 8-35 mill. longi, ad apicem abrupte dilatati. 
Calycis tubus infra attenuatus, ad apicem subconstrictus, 9-10 mill. 
longus, 2 '/,-3 mill. crassus; dentes 4-6 mill. longi, 1-1*/, mill. lati. 
Petala triangularia, in conum conniventia, utrinque breviter papil- 
losa, 2-3 mill. longa. Antheræ 9-10 mill. longæ, 1'/, mill. late; ap- 
peudix 3 mill. longa. Flores feminei fasciculati, breviter pedunculati. 
Peduneulus fructiferus striatus, 2-3 cent. longus. Fructus oblongo- 
subfusiformis, leviter compressus, ad basim cum pedunculo articula- 
tus, superne attenuatus, 5 cent. longus, 15-18 mill. crassus. Semina 
ovoideo-oblonga, compressa, lævia, 6-7 mill. longa, 3-3 */, mill. lata. 
Ín Guiana anglica (Schomburgk n. 500 in herb. Vindob., Deless., 
Kew., Benth.); in Surinamo (Hostmann n. 173 in herb. Kew.; Wull- 
Schlegel n. 211 in herb. Brux.). 
31. G. multiflora (Cogn. Diagn. Cucurb., fasc. 1, p. 16, non in 
El, Bras.); foliis suborbicularibus, supra leviter pubescentibus, subtus 
breviter villosis et subtomentosis, demum utrinque subglabris et sca- 
brellis, basi parum profunde emarginatis, usque ad medium trilobatis, 
