724 DICOTYLEDONELE. CERATOSANTHES . 
superiore floriferus ; pedicelli eapillares, ebracteati, brevissime villosi, 
flexuosi, 3-8 mill. longi. Calycis tubus flexuosus, leviter pubescens, 
15-18 mill. longus, ad medium '/,-'/, mill. et ad apicem 1 !/,-2 mill. 
latus; dentes erecti, multinervii, oblongo-lanceolati, 2 '/, mill. longi, 
| mill. lati. Corolla albescens, extus leviter pubescens, segmentis 
7-9-nerviis, 12-13 mill. longis, ad basim 2 '/, mill. latis, usque ad me- 
dium bifidis, divisuris pluries involutis. Antherz 2 */, mill. long. 
Flores feminei geminati ad apicem peduneuli communis 7-8 cent. 
longi; pedicelli 2-4 mill. longi. Calycis tubus 9 mill. longus. Ovarium 
oblongum, glabrum, apice longe rostratum, 8 mill. longum; stylus 
capillaris, rectus, 5 mill. longus; stigmata erecta, leviter dilatata, 
4 mill. longa, leviter bifida. Fructus lævis, ovoideo-oblongus, basi sub- 
obtusus, apice acutus, 2 cent. longus, 8-9 mill. crassus. Semina pal- 
lide fulva, leviter marginata, 3-3 */, mill. lata, 2 '/, mill. crassa. 
In Venezuela prope Caracas (J. Vargas in herb. DC. et Webb.); ad 
Valle del Aragua, Palmar et Matheo (Otto n. 799 in herb. Berol): 
prope Biscaina (Fendler n. 500 in herb. Gotting.). 
G, acutiloba, Cogn. 1. e. — Folia profundissime 5-lobata, lobis an- 
gustioribus. Flores masculi in racemos multifloros digesti. 
In Venezuela prope coloniam Tovar (Fendler n. 495 in herb. Kew.). 
6. €. corniculata; monoica; foliis supra sparse breviterque 
villoso-hirsutis, subtus subglabris et lævibus, fere usque ad basim 
trilobatis, lobis lanceolatis vel sublinearibus, acutis vel acuminatis 
margine integerrimis, exterioribus profunde bifidis; floribus masculis 
in racemos plurifloros folia superantes dispositis; calycis tubo ad ba- 
sim leviter dilatato; seminibus oblongis, valde compressis. — Angur 
fructu parvo, florum segmentis ramosis Plum. Cat. pl. Amer. p- 9 ^ 
Trichosanthes foliis palmatis integerrimis, florum petalis bicornibus 
Burm. in Plum. Pl. Amer. p. 24, tab. 24. — T. corniculata Lam. 
Encycl. méth. Bot. 1, p. 191; Ser. in DC. Prodr. 3. p. 315. — T- 1- 
berosa Willd.! Spec. 4, p. 601; Bot. Mag. tab. 2703. AA 
thes tuberosa Spreng. Syst. veg. 3, p. 18; Descourt. Fl. Antil. : 
p. 25, tab. 538; Sehrad. in Linnæa, 12, p. 403; Rom. Syn- fasc. ^ 
p. 93; Griseb. Fl. Brit. w. Ind. isl. p. 289; Cogn. Diagn. Cucurb. 
fasc. 2, p. 28. 
Radix tuberosa, globosa vel napiformis, carnosa, 15-20 cent. crassa. 
extus ochracea et verrucosa, intus alba. Caulis brevis, ul 
tum crassus ; rami elongati, graciles, angulato-sulcati, glabri. P 
tenuiter striatus, glaber vel puberulus, 2-3 cent. longus. Folia 
