&ICYOS . CUCURBITACE;E (AUCT. COGNIAUX). 893 
communis masculus filiformis, glaber, 7-12 cent. longus; pedicelli gla- 
bri, patuli vel reflexi, 6-9 mill. longi. Flores minuti. Calycis tubus 
glaber, late campanulatus, 2 mill. longus, 1'/, mill. latus; dentes 
'/, mill. longi. Corolla albescens, segmentis obovato-oblongis, subob- 
tusis, glanduloso-pubescentibus, 5-nerviis, patulis vel reflexis, 2-2 '/, 
mill. longis, 1 mill. latis. Pedunculus fructiferus filiformis, glaber, 
5-8 cent. longus. Fructus 2 !/,-3 cent. longus, 3-3 '/, mill. latus, 1 Y, 
mill. crassus; pericarpium tenuissimum, siccum; aculei basilares 5-5 
mill. longi, cæteri 4-5 mill. longi. Semina helvola, lineari-oblonga, in 
utroque facie leviter concava, 15 mill. longa, 2 */,-3 mill. lata, 1 mill. 
crassa. = 
In sylvis Brasiliæ prope Bananal prov. S. Paulo po Sithin D, 
n. 783 in herb. Mus. Par.). 
23. S. maerocarpus; folis ovato-triangularibus, 5-angulatis 
vel leviter trilobatis, basi profunde emarginatis, supra punctato- 
Scabris, subtus subglabris lævibusque; cirrhis 4-5-fidis; racemis mas- 
culis simplicibus, subverticillatim 25-40-floris, folio multo longioribus ; 
antheris liberis; floribus femineis solitariis vel geminatis ad apicem 
pedunculi petiolo multo longioris; fruetu oblongo-subfusiformi, basi 
rotundato, apice longe attenuato, ad medium gibboso, ad basim acu- 
leis 3-6 ac in gibbositate iis 5-7 setaceis adpressis cum reliquo fructu 
reflexo-exasperatis instructo. 
Alte seandens. Caulis satis robustus, suleatus, glaber. Petiolus satis 
robustus, vix striatus, brevissime villosus, 3-4 cent. longus. Folia 
membranacea, supra intense viridia, subtus leete viridia, apice acuta 
acuminataque, 8-10 cent. longa, 7-9 cent. lata, margine minutissime 
remoteque denticulata; sinus basilaris subrotundatus, 2-2*/, cent. 
latus et profundus. Cirrhi robustissimi, elongati, angulati, glabri. 
Inflorescentia mascula 12-90 cent. longa ; peduneulus communis gra- 
cilis, striatus, angulatus, glaber ; pedicelli capillares, flexuosi, subgla- 
bri, patuli, 12-20 mill. longi. Flores minuti. Calycis tubus late campa- 
nulatus, subglaber, 1 mill. longus, 1 ‘/,-2 mill. latus; dentes subulati, 
'h mill. longi. Corolla virescens, segmentis oblongo-triangularibus, 
acutis, 7-9-nerviis, sparse papilloso-glandulosis, patulis, 1'/,-2 mill. 
longis, 1 mill. latis. Staminum filamentum 1 mill. longum ; antheræ 
/, mill. longæ, loculis flexuosis. Pedunculus fructiferus subfiliformis, 
angulato-sulcatus, glaber, 10 cent. longus. Fructus compressus, 3 cent. 
gus, 11-13 mill. latus, 3 mill. erassus; aculei basilares 4-6 mill. 
longi, cæteri 6-8 mill. longi. 
