CAYAPONIA , CUCURBITACEÆ (AUCT. COGNIAUX ). 791 
remotis, linearibus, tubo triplo brevioribus; staminum filamentis 
quam antheræ parvæ paulo longioribus. 
Caulis gracilis, profunde suleatus, brevissime leviterque villosus, 
sublævis. Petiolus striatus, leviter tomentosus, 4-6 cent. longus; 
petioluli 1-2 cent. longi. Folia superiora interdum simplicia. Foliola 
utrinque læte viridia, oblongo-lanceolata, medianum 16-17 cent. lon- 
gum, 6*/,-7 cent. latum, lateralia 13-14 cent. longa, 5-5 /, cent. lata. 
Cirrhi elongati, robusti, ad basim incrassati, profunde sulcati, brevi- 
ter villosi, bifidi, rameales interdum simplices. Flores parvi, in race- 
mos androgynos paucifloros digesti, rarius solitarii. Pedunculus com- 
munis robustus, suleatus, breviter villosus, 3-10 cent. longus ; pedi- 
celli subfasciculati, eraciles, 5-8 mill. longi. Calycis tubus 5-6 mill. 
longus, 4-4 '/, mill. latus, basi rotundatus; dentes 2 mill. longi, 
/, mill. lati. Corolla utrinque breviter tomentosa, 6-7 mill. longa 
(imperfecte evoluta). Staminum filamenta 3 mill. longa, ad basim vix 
dilatata, villosiuscula; antherz in capitulum 2 mill. longum, 2 '/,-3 
mill. crassum cohærentes. Flores feminei quam masculi paulo mino- 
res. Staminodia lingulata, longe villosa, 2 mill. longa. Ovarium sub- 
globosum, 4 mill. crassum ; stylus flexuosus, 6 mill. longus, stigmate 
? mill. lato; discus 3 mill. latus, 1-1 */, mill. longus. Fructus ovoideus, 
glaber, leevis, sordide luteus, 17-18 mill. longus, 13-14 mill. crassus. 
Semina cinerea, basi oblique subemarginata, 8-8 '/, mill. longa, 5-6 
Mill. lata, 2*/,-3 mill. crassa. 
In sylvis Nove Granatæ ad mont. Quindio prov. Mariquita, 
altit. 2500 metr., et prov. Bogota ad mont. Fenasuca (Triana n. 2995 
et n. 5126 part. in herb. Mus. Par. — fruct. m. Febriari); prope Tena 
en el Monte (Goudot n. 1 in herb. Mus. Par. — flor. m. Maio). 
SEcrro III. — PERIANTHOPODUS. 
Genus Perianthopodus Manso Enum subst. Brazil. p. 28. — 
Sechium Popp. et Endl. Nov. gen. ac sp. pl. 2, p. 56 (non P. Br.). 
Fl 
Calycis limbus breviter 5-dentatus. Pistillodium glanduliforme, trun- 
“atum. Stylus disco annulari insertus. Semina vix compressa, basi 
‘allosa, integra, Cirrhi simplices vel 2-3-fidi. — Spec. 54-60. - 
