SICYOS. CUCURBITACEÆ (AUCT. COGNIAUX). 895 
Secr. III. — SICYOCARPA. 
A. Gray in Proc. Amer. Acad. 3, p. 54, in Bot. Unit. St. Expl. 
Exped. 1, p. 649, et in Flora, 1855, p. 399; Benth. et Hook. Gen. 1. 
p. 837. 
Antheræ 2-5, sinuosæ, basi connatæ. Flores feminei ad apicem 
pedunculi eapitati. Fruetus ovato-pyramidatus vel oblongus, 4-6- 
angulatus (rarissime triqueter), inermis, nudus vel rarissime dense 
papillosus, plus minusve rostratus, pericarpio incrassato. — Spec. 
oV. 
25. S. Maximowieziis folis late cordato-rotundatis, obscure 
5-angulatis, supra brevissime denseque villoso-hirsutis demum tenui- 
ter punctato-scabris, subtus densissime breviterque villoso-subtomen- 
tosis demum hirsutis ; cirrhis 4-5-fidis ; capitulis femineis densissimis, 
12-20-floris, breviter pedunculatis ; fructu parvo, ovoideo, compresso, 
Superiore densissime longeque papilloso. longe tomentoso, obscure 
angulato, cinereo. 
Caulis elongatus, robustus, angulato-suleatus, breviter villosus, 
scabriusculus. Petiolus robustus, striatus, breviter tomentosus, 4-7 
cent. longus. Folia membranacea, supra lete viridia, subtus cinerea, 
apice acuta et brevissime acuminata, margine undulata et minute 
denticulata, 9-11 cent. longa, 10-13 cent. lata; sinus basilaris suba- 
cutus, 2-3 cent. profundus, */,-1'/, cent. latus. Cirrhi robustissimi, 
elongati, angulati vel sulcati, breviter villosi. Racemi masculi brevis- 
sime ramosi vel subsimplices; pedunculus communis satis robustus, 
Striatus, breviter tomentosus, 4-9 cent. longus ; pedicelli dense tomen- 
tosi, 2-6 mill. longi. Calyx dense tomentoso-cinereus, late campanu- 
latus, 2 mill. latus; dentes subulati, '/,-*/, mill. longi. Corolla dense 
tomentoso-papillosa, segmentis patulis, ovato-triangularibus, acutis, 
*-nerviis, 2-3 mill. longis, 1 '/, mill. latis. Columna staminea gracilis, 
villosa, 1 mill. longa; antheræ 5, libere, divergentes. Pedunculus 
fructiferus crassus, teres, apice dilatatus, breviter villoso-subtomen- 
tosus, 2-3 cent. longus. Fructus cinereus, 11 mill. longus, 6-7 mill. 
latus, 4-5. mill. crassus; papille molle, subulatæ, longe denseque 
tomentosæ, 3-4 mill. longæ. 
In insulis Sandwicensibus ad Oahu (Kastalsky in herb. Acad. 
rop.). 
