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Order CUCURBITACEZ. 
Tre CUCUMERINEZ. 
ECBALLIUM, A. Rich. 
Flowers moneecious. Male racemose. Calyx-tube short,campanu- 
late, the limb 5-fid. Corolla sulotaad or broadly campantlate deeply 
5-lobed, with oblong acute segments. Stamens 3; filamen s short, 
CSithars broad, one 1- celled, the others 2- called, the cells nceuoae 
connective margina al. Female flowers solitary, pedunculate. a yx 
above the ovary and corolla of the males. Stamens 3, mpe erfec 
and recurved-subulate stigmatose branches. Fruit oblong, hispid- 
echinate, very juicy, ies mature separating from top o of articulate 
pedunele and elastically projecting joe with juice dyes basal aper- 
eeds numerous, oblon mpressed, short or narrowl 
mga crowned at apex with short duplex aril of see and 
topyle 
E.Elaterium, 4. Rich. The Squirting Cucumber. A perennial or 
anual herb, creeping, fleshy, everywhere hispid-pilose. . Leave 
alterna 
yellow, lateral, the female sometimes in the same axil with the male 
taceme, but usually in separate ones. 
the — : A Mediterranean plant lately become naturalised along the banks of 
E ndaine whence specimens have been brought to Brisbane by Professor 
Order UMBELLIFER. 
Tre CAUCALINEZ. 
CORIANDRUM, Linn. 
-Calyx-teeth small, acute, often unequal. Petals daa 
qua 
eMarginate, white or purplish of the outer flowers unequal, o ofte 
Pp a 
ges 
> ucave on the inner face, commissure distinctly B-vittate, Sek. 
ic 
2-partite. 8 : 
Annual herb eed convexo-concave, about thrice as broad 
C.sativa, Linn, The Common Coriander. An erect branching 
When ry us org 1 to 14 ft. high, emitting a very disagreeable smell 
Ovate or “an : Low est leaves once or twi = pinnate, OG 4 ne 
. ni e, o more divided, 
linear eeply-cut segments ; the others aiahe, Ube 
only a fo 
outer "et ne Fruits about 2 2 ew Tong 
arid spreading 
about Brisbarie as 
