ELATERICM.. CUCURBITACEÆ (AUCT. COGNIAUX). 865 
incrassati, uti omnis planta glabri, lete viridis, striis longitudinalibus 
obscurioribus. » Petiolus striatus, 3-15 cent. longus. Folia membra- 
nacea, ad apicem acuta et mucronata, margine tenuiter denticulata, 
9-14 cent. longa, 6-11 cent. lata; nervi tenuissimi, pedati, subtus 
leviter prominentes; sinus basilaris subrotundus, 2-3 '/, cent. pro- 
fundus, */,-2 cent. latus. Cirrhi elongati, glabri, striati. Pedunculus 
communis masculus gracilis, erectus, striatus, 5-8-florus, 15-32 cent. 
longus; pedicelli 3-6 mill. longi, primum leviter glanduloso-pubes- 
centes, demum glabri. Calycis tubus glaber, levis, 10-striatus, ad 
basim subito truncatus, ad apicem paululum dilatatus, primum leviter 
pubescenti-glandulosus, demum glaber, 20-22 mill. longus, ad medium 
1?/,-2 mill. et ad apicem 3-4 mill. latus; dentes patuli, virides, '/, mill. 
longi et minores. Petala alba, patula, lineari-lanceolata, trinervia, 
10-13 mill. longa, 1'/,-2 mill. lata. Stamina tubo calycis circiter 
qualia. Pedunculus femineus 4-8 mill. longus. Ovarium oblongum, 
4-5 mill. longum, pilis densis crassisque diametro ovarii longioribus 
obtectum ; stylus albus, calycis tubo paulo brevior; stigma cylindri- 
cum, inferne cavum, viride, carnosulum. Pedunculus fructiferus cras- 
sus, 1*/,-2 cent. longus. Fructus succosus, paulo compressus, acutius- 
culus, extus setis carnosis leviter hispidus, elastice bivalvis, unilocu- 
laris, 8-10-spermus, 2 cent. longus, 12-15 mill. crassus ; receptaculum 
seminum columnare, extus dorso planiusculum, intus bilaterale 
(prismatieum), apice dilatato, utroque margine pro seminibus 5-den- 
tato. Semina fusca, ovata vel suborbicularia, subalata, ad basim 
“ppendiculata, apice 3-5-dentata, margine membranaceo lacero irre- 
gulari, 10-12 mill. longa, 8-10 mill. lata, 1 mill. crassa. 
In margine canalis Uruará regionis Amazonarum (Martius in herb. 
Monac. et Brux. ); in aquaticis canalis Quajura, prov. Para (Martius 
in herb. Monac. ); in vieinia Santarem prov. Para, ad riv. Igar-Assée 
(Spruce n. 750 i in herb. Monac., n. 980 in herb. Kew. et Francav. et 
sine n. in herb. DC., Webb. et Kew.); in sepibus ad Ega, prov. do 
Alto Amazonas (Martius in herb. Monac.); in humidis ad rip. fluv. 
Itahypé (Riedel et Langsdorff in herb. hort. Petrop.). 
9. E. ciliatum (Cogn. Diagn. Cucurb. fasc. 2, p. 54); foliis. 
ütrinque sparse breviterque pubescenti-scabris præcipue supra, ovato- 
Quadrangularibus, sinu pilis albis densis lanatisque ciliato ; floribus 
masculis in racemos subumbelliformes 10-15-floros foliis longiores di- 
gestis ; calycis tubo longissimo, lineari, petalis 2-3-plo longiore. 
Rami graciles, "— glabri, lzeves. Petioli Pu gla- 
Sorres au Prodromus I 
