CERATOSANTHES , CUCURBITACEÆ (AUCT. COGNIAUX). 725 
intense viridia, subtus pallide viridia, 8-15 cent. longa lataque, basi 
leviter emarginata; nervi utrinque leviter prominentes, supra brevi- 
ter denseque villoso-hirsuti, duo laterales basilares bifurcati, imum 
sinum non marginantes. Cirrhi filiformes, elongati, glabri. Peduneulus 
communis masculus gracilis, glaber, 10-15 cent. longus, apice 5-10- 
florus ; pedicelli filiformes, puberuli, flexuosi, 3-8 mill. longi. Calycis 
tubus puberulus, 12-13 mill. longus, ad medium :/, mill. et ad apicem 
2 mill. latus; dentes erecti, oblongo-lanceolati, 2 mill. longi. Corolla 
albido-flava. Inflorescentia feminea sicut mascula. Fructus longitudi- 
naliter striatus, pallide et intense viridi marmoratus, apice acutus, 
3-4 cent. longus, 1 '/,-2 cent. crassus. Semina albescentia, nitida, 
immarginata, 5*/,-6 mill. longa, 3 mill. lata, */, mill. crassa. 
In insul. Martinica (Plée in herb. Mus. Par. et Berol. ; Duperrey in 
herb. Mus. Par. et Webb.); in ins. Grenada (Wullschlægel see. Gri- 
Seb. 1. c.); in ins. Trinitatis (Crüger n. 7 in herb. Mus. Par.); in Ve- 
hezuela prope Caracas (Plée in herb. Mus. Par.); ad Porto Cabello 
ss Carabobo (Linden n. 1611 in herb. Mus. Par., Deless., Vindob.. 
Webb... 
T. €, multiloba (Cogn. Diagn. Cucurb. fasc. 2, p. 29); dioica; 
foliis utrinque glabris sublævigatisque, suborbicularibus, profundis- 
sime 5-sectis ; segmentis 3-5-lobatis, lobis apice subrotundatis vix 
Müucronulatis ; floribus masculis in racemos multifloros folia longe su- 
Perantes digestis; calycis tubo ad basim dilatato. — Cogn. in Mart. 
Fl. Bras. fase. 78, p. 68. 
Caulis satis brevis, gracilis, striatus, glaber. Petiolus glaber, stria- 
tus, 1-1 */, cent. longus. Folia supra intense viridia et albo-punctata, 
subtus pallidiora, 4-6 cent. longa lataque, pedato-5-nervia, nervis 
utrinque leviter prominentibus præcipue subtus; segmenta ad basim 
valde constricta, in lobos oblongos divisa; sinus inter segmenta an- 
susti acuti, basilaris angustus, acutus, 2-2 '/, cent. profundus. Cirrhi 
sraciles, glabri, elongati, Pedunculus communis masculus satis gra- 
cilis, glaber vel ad apicem leviter pubescens, striatus, 10-25 cent. lon- 
sus, in quadrante superiore vel usque ad medium 15-50-florus; pedi- 
celli filiformes, subflexuosi, pubescentes, 3-6 mill. longi, ad medium 
“pe braeteola minima capillari 1-2 mill. longa instructi. Calycis 
Ubus pubescens, 9-12 mill. longus, ad medium ?/,-'/, mill. et ad api- 
“em 3-4 mill. latus: dentes 1 '/, mill. longi, 1-1 '/, mill. lati. Corolla 
;Destens, segmentis 6-nerviis, 6-7 mill. longis, ad basim 2 mill. latis. 
Usque ad basim bifidis, divisuris linearibus pluries [involutis. An- 
