MAXIMOWICZIA . CUCURBITACEÆ (AUCT. COGNIAUX). 727 
lyeis tubus cylindricus vel eampanulatus, breviter 5-lobus. Petala 5, 
oblonga vel linearia. Stamina 3, libera, in fauce calycis tubi sessilia ; 
antherz oblongæ, una unilocularis ceteræ biloculares, loculis lineari- 
bus eonnectivum latiusculum non productum marginantibus, non 
flexuosis. Pollen læve, siccum ovoideum trisulcum, humefactum glo- 
bosum poris 3 apertum. Pistillodium nullum. — Flores feminei soli- 
tarii. Calyx et corolla maris, sed calycis tubus elongatus, cylindricus. 
Staminodia nulla. Ovarium ovoideum, triplacentiferum ; stylus colum- 
naris, stigmate trilobo ; ovula numerosa, horizontalia. Fructus parvus, 
globosus, baccatus, indehiscens, oligospermus. Semina ovoidea, vix 
compressa, marginata. 
Herbie scandentes, glaberrimæ, radice perennente, Texas et Mexici 
incole. Folia profunde 3-5-secta, lobis sæpe lobulatis vel dissectis. 
Cirrhi simplices. Flores parvi, luteoli. Fructus ruber. 
l. M. Lindheimeri; foliis profunde 3-7-lobatis, lobis dentatis, 
lobulatis vel varie dissectis; floribus masculis racemosis; calycis tubo 
cylindrico. — Sicydium Lindheimeri A. Gray! Pl. Lindh., fasc. 2. 
P. 194 et in Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. 1. c.; Walp. Ann. 2, p. 643, v. 4, 
P. 854; Naud. in Ann. sc. nat. ser. 4, v. 12, p. 144; v. 16, tab. 1, 
fig. B, et in Rev. hort. 1861, p. 364. — Bryonia Abyssinica Gouault 
in Rev. hort. 1853, p. 61 cum ic. col. (non Lam.). 
Caulis gracilis, modice ramosus, angulato-striatus, glaber, 2-4 metr. 
longus. Petiolus satis gracilis, glaber, striatus, 1-3 cent. longus. Folia 
membranacea, intense viridia, utrinque glabra, levia vel leviter 
punctata, 4-6 cent, longa lataque, sæpius profunde trilobata, lobis 
divergentibus subcuneatis, apice acutis apiculatisque, grosse dentatis 
vel lobulatis, Cirrhi subfiliformes, elongati, glabri, teretes vel vix 
striati. Peduneulus communis masculus crassiusculus, striatus, apice 
Puberulus, 2-4 cent. longus, 5-8-florus; pedicelli graciles, puberuli, 
38 mill. longi, basi minute bracteolati. Calycis tubus puberulus, 
apice vix dilatatus, basi subacutus, 6-8 mill. longus, 2 mill. crassus ; 
dentes late triangulares, acuti, 1 *'/, mill. longi. Petala oblonga, apice 
obtusa, intus villosula, lutea, nervis extus virentibus, 4-6 mill. longa. 
Antheræ late ovatæ, 2 mill. longæ. Pedunculus fructiferus crassus, 
^l cent. longus. Fructus 2 ‘/,-3 Y/, cent. crassus, apiculatus, glaber- 
"mus, primum virens et longitudinaliter variegatus, demum ruber et 
unicolor, Semina fusca, tumida, utrinque levia, basi bidenticulata, 
5 mill. longa, 4-4 !/, mill. lata, 3 '/, mill. crassa. 
In Texas (Lindheimer n. 612; Drummond n. 88); prope Comac 
