CYCLANTHERA . CUCURBITACEJE (AUCT. COGNIAUX). 841 
19. €. explodens (Naud.! in Ann. sc. nat. ser. 4, v. 12, p. 160); 
foliis satis breviter petiolatis, utrinque breviter pubescenti-scaberulis 
præcipue ad nervos, basi leviter emarginatis, plerumque leviter trilo- 
batis, margine minutissime remoteque denticulatis; cirrhis bifidis ; 
floribus masculis minutis, in racemos paucifloros petiolo sepius bre- 
viores digestis ; fructu ovato-reniformi, apice obtuso, breviter pedun- 
eulato, dorso sparse breviterque echinato; seminibus parvis, nigri- 
cantibus, anguste alatis. — Naud. in Rev. hort. 1861, p. 165; Caruel 
in Nuov. Giorn. bot. Ital. 1, p. 14, tab. 1. — C. elastica hort. 
mult. 
Caulis satis gracilis, ramosissimus, angulato-sulcatus, leviter villo- 
sus praecipue ad nodos, 2-3 metr. longus. Petiolus gracilis, striatus, 
breviter villosus, 1-5 cent. longus. Folia ambitu ovato-triangularia, 
supra intense viridia, subtus paulo pallidiora, 6-9 cent. longa et fere 
totidem lata; lobis triangularibus vel ovato-oblongis, mediano acuto 
vel breviter acuminato, lateralibus multo brevioribus, acutis vel ob- 
tusis, interdum subnullis ; nervi tenues, non prominentes. Cirrhi satis 
graciles, elongati, angulato-suleati, sparse breviterque villosi. Pedun- 
culus communis masculus filiformis, dense breviterque villosus, 
10-20-florus, 1-2 cent. longus ; pedicelli capillares, subglabri, 1-3 mill. 
longi. Calycis tubus late €upuliformis, glaber, 1-1 !/, mill. latus: 
dentes minutissimi vel subnulli. Corolla lutescenti-viridis, segmentis 
triangularibus, acutis vel subobtusis, trinerviis, utrinque brevissime 
Papillosis praecipue ad apicem, 1 mill. longis latisque. Anthera *, mill. 
lata. Flores feminei brevissime pedunculati, quam masculi paulo 
majores.. Pedunculus fructiferus 1-3 cent. longus, 2-3 mill. erassus. 
Fructus subexsuecus, maturitate pallide lutescens, subglaucescens, 
sepius 8-Spermus, 2-2 !/, cent. longus, 1'/, cent. crassus; aculei 4-5 
mill. longi, 1-1 Y/, mill. lati. Semina fusca vel nigricantia, sub-5-angu- 
laria, basi appendiculata, apice tridentata, utrinque sublævia, 9-10 
Mill. longa, 6-8 mill. lata, 1-1 '/, mill. crassa. 
In Nova Granata ad Carisse (Funck et Schlim n. 126 in herb. 
Brux., Francav., Mus. Par., Deless.); inter Payme et Raboud (Gou- 
dot sine n° in herb. Mus. Par. et n. 1 in herb. Webb.); ? prope Bogota 
(Goudot in herb. Mus. Par.); ? prope coloniam Tovar (Fendler n. 1880 
I herb. Kew. et Gotting.); in sepibus propter urbem Bogota et ad 
Pagum Faeatativa altit. 9600 metr. (Ed. André n. 669 part. in herb. 
900); in Ecuadore ad ped. Cordill. occid. prope Balsapamba altit. 
“reit. 200 metr, (Ed. André n. 4039 part. in herb. suo); ad ped. oc- 
did, Chimborazo, altit. circit. 350 metr. (Ed. André in herb. suo). 
