798 DICOTYLEDONEL. ECHINOCYSTIS . 
p. 819. — Cucurbitearum pars et Cyclantherez Schrad. Reliq. in 
Linnæa, 12, p. 408. 
Stamina 1-3; antheræ in generibus triandris flexuosis, in monan- 
dro antheræ horizontalis. Ovarium sæpissime obliquum, 1-4-loculare 
vel bi-multilocellatum, loculis locellisve varie dispositis; ovula erecta 
vel adscendentia, rarissime horizontalia. Bacca ssepius elastice rupta, 
columnam seminiferam carnosam nudans, rarius indehiscens vel apice 
poris dehiscens. 
LXI. ECHINOCYSTIS, Torr. et Gr. Fl. N. Amer. 1, p. 542; Endl. 
Gen. suppl. 1, p. 1421; Meisn. Gen., comment. p. 356; À. Gray, 
Man. ed. 5, p. 139; Naud. in Ann. sc. nat. ser. 4, v. 12, p. 153; 
Benth. et Hook. Gen. 1, p. 835; Cogn. Diagn. fasc. 2, p. 85 et in 
Mart. Fl. Bras. fasc. 78, p. 97. — Hexameria Torr. et Gr. in 
Torr. Rep. pl. New-York, p. 137 (1840), non R. Br. (1838). — 
' Megarrhiza Torr. Pacif. R. Rep. 6, p. 14; S. Wats. in Pro. 
Amer. Acad. 11, p. 138; Brew. et Wats. Bot. of Calif. 1, p. 24- 
— Marah Kellog in Proc. Calif. Acad. edit. 1, p. 38, edit. 2, p. 31- 
— Echinopepon Naud. in Ann. sc. nat. ser. 5, v. 6, p. 17. — El 
terii, Sicyi ef Momordicæ spec. Auct. 
Flores monoici. Masculi racemosi vel paniculati. Calycis tubus cam- 
panulatus vel pateriformis, dentibus 5, subulatis vel filiformibus. 
Corolla sæpissime rotata, profunde 5-partita, segmentis oblongis vel 
linearibus papillosis. Stamina 3, filamentis in columnam connatis: 
antheræ connatæ vel libere, subhorizontales, loculis sæpissime sig" 
moideo-flexuosis, rarius rectis. Pollen leve, siccum ovoideum 5-b- 
sulcum, humefactum 5-6-gonum, poris apertum. Pistillodium nullum. 
— Flores feminei solitarii vel in eadem axilla cum masculis aggregati- 
Calyx et corolla maris. Staminodia nulla vel setiformia. Ovarl 
ovoideum vel globosum, echinatum, uniloculare et biplacentiferum 
semibiloculare vel quadrilocellatum ; stylus brevissimus, stigmate 
hemisphærico lobato vel 2-3-partito ; ovula in loculis 2-6 velin Jocell 
solitaria, parietalia vel septis locellorum affixa, adscendentia V° 
erecta. Fructus siccus vel baccatus, longe echinatus, 1-3-locular, 
intus fibrosus, demum siccus, apice poris 1 vel 2 vel operculali 
dehiscens, vel irregulariter ruptus, 1-12-spermus. Semina varia, 00! 
dea vel oblonga, tugida lævia vel marginibus crassis obtusis. 
Hérbæ scandentes, Americæ borealis calidæ temperatæque 
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