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plices vel compositos gracillimos paucifloros foliis multo breviores 
digestis; fructu breviter pedunculato, apice obtuso, toto aculeis bre- 
vibus paulo distantibus obtecto; seminibus cinereis. — Cogn. in Mart. 
Fl. Bras. fasc. 78, p. 104. — Momordica quinquelobata Vell. Fl. Flum. 
10, tab. 95; Rom. Syn. fasc. 2, p. 55. 
Caulis gracilis, striatus, glaber. Petiolus glaber, striatus, 5-16 mill. 
longus. Folia supra læte viridia, subtus pallidiora, 6-7 cent. longa, 
5-6 cent. lata, ad basim trinervia, lobis acutis vel acuminatis, dis- 
tincte denticulatis vel subcrenulatis, terminali majore lanceolato- 
oblongo ad basim constricto, lateralibus triangulari-lanceolatis ; nervi 
duo laterales basilares 2-3-furcati, imum sinum marginantes; sinus 
inter lobos angusti, obtusi, basilaris rotundatus, 1-1 */, cent. latus, 
1-2 cent. profundus. Cirrhi elongati, gracillimi, glabri, inæqualiter 
bifidi, ad apicem ramulorum simplices. Pedunculus communis mascu- 
lus 1-2 '/, cent. longus, filiformis, glaber, striatus; pedicelli capil- 
lares, subfasciculati, sæpe ramosi, 1-3 mill. longi. Calyx glaber, 1 mill. 
latus, dentibus minimis. Corolla virescens, segmentis triangularibus, 
acutis, 1 mill. longis, */,-*/, mill. latis. Pedunculus fructiferus robus- 
tus, glaber, striatus, 5-12 mill. longus. Fructus valde gibbosus, com- 
pressus, 14-16 mill. longus, 8-10 mill. crassus, rostro subnullo valde 
obliquo; aculeis 4-5 mill. longis, */, mill. latis. Semina vix alata, basi 
appendieulata, apice leviter crenulata, margine subintegra, 5-6 mill. 
longa, 3*/,-4 mill. lata, 1*/, mill. crassa. 
In Brasilia ad Caldas prov. Minas Geraes (Regnell III, n. 633 * in 
herb. Brux. et Holm.); in prov. Rio de Janeiro ad Theresopolis (Gla- 
ziou in herb. Brux.). 
25. €. eremocarpa (Cogn. Diagn. Cucurb. fase. 2, p. 63); foliis 
brevissime petiolatis, utrinque tenuiter punctatis et scabriusculis 
precipue supra, ad basim leviter emarginatis, subintegris vel plus 
minusve trilobatis rarius angulato-5-lobatis; cirrhis simplicibus vel 
rarius bifidis; floribus masculis minimis, in racemos simplices vel 
tompositos gracillimos plurifloros foliis s:epius longiores digestis ; 
fructu Subsessili, apice acuto et breviter rostrato, toto aculeis brevibus 
Sparsis obtecto. — Sicyos eremocarpus Schauer! in Linnæa, 20, 
P. 722, non Peyr. ! 
y Caulis gracillimus, elongatus, angulatus, glaber vel ad nodos leviter 
villosus. Petiolus gracillimus, striatus, glaber vel leviter pubescens, 
'h-3 cent. longus. Folia supra leete viridia, subtus pallidiora, 5-10 
tent. longa et fere totidem lata, lobis acutis vel breviter acuminatis, 
lateralibus brevioribus ; sinus basilaris late rotundatus, 1-3 cent. latus, 
