JOHNSTON. — NEW PLANTS FROM VENEZUELAN ISLANDS, 697 
long, slender, straight: leaves opposite, narrowly lanceolate, attenuate at 
both ends, acuminate, glabrous, shortly petiolate, including petiole 3 to 
5 cm. long and 0.5 to 1.5 em. wide; stipules produced into an awn the 
length of stipular sheath: inflorescence lateral, about 3-flowered ; bracts 
subulate, entire, 2 mm.long; pedicels 5 mm. long; calyx 4 to 5-fid, lobes 
acute, minutely puberulent, accrescent in fruit; corolla greenish, 4~ to 
5-lobed, twice the length of calyx; anthers broad, filaments short: fruit 
flattened, circular in outline, 3 mm. in diameter. — San Juan mt., in 
woods above South hill, alt. 400 m., Johnston, no. 115, July 27, 1903. 
This species differs from C. racemosu, Jacq., in having smaller acumi- 
nate leaves, entire bracts, more slender calyx-lobes, smaller corolla, more 
slender habit, and a much reduced raceme; from C, brachiata, R. & P., 
in smaller, narrow leaves, in much reduced simple raceme, and slightly 
smaller flower. 
ANGURIOPSIS, nov. gen. Flowers dioecious, fasciculate-spicate. 
Staminate flowers sessile or shortly pedicellate: calyx short, campanulate, 
5-lobed. Corolla rotate, 5-parted, segments ovate. Stamens 2, free, 
affixed to the throat of the calyx-tube; filaments short; anthers oblong, 
bilocular ; cells linear, straight or slightly curved. Rudimentary ovary 
none. Pistillate flowers sessile or subsessile on the short fascicled spikes. 
Staminodia 2. Ovary oblong; placentas 2; style bifid, stigmas 2, bifid ; 
ovules few, horizontal. Fruit oblong, irregular in shape, glabrous, 1- to 
4-seeded. Seeds ovoid with a broad neck at one end. 
Stem woody, climbing. Leaves lobed, tomentose. Tendrils simple. 
Flowers very small. us 
Cucurbitaceous and allied to Anguria and Gurania. It is strikingly 
different, however, in having the pistillate aud staminate flowers of une- 
qual size as in Melothria, and in having a distinctly spicate inflorescence, 
a character rare or entirely lacking in other Cucurbitaceae. 
A. margaritensis, n.sp. Stem climbing, somewhat woody ; tendrils 
simple, as much as 15 em. long; leaves clustered at the nodes; young 
leaves orbicular or slightly 5-angled ; apex rounded ; base widely cordate ; 
margin crenate-dentate; upper surface green, lightly hispid; under surface 
densely velvety-pubescent, whitish; the largest leaves varying from 
12 mm. wide and 18 mm. long to 15 mm. wide and 12 mm. long, un- 
doubtedly becoming larger; petiole pubescent, 1 em. long: inflorescence 
shortly spicate, the spikes single or fasciculate, from 2 or 3 mm. to 1 cm. 
long, rugose and whitish pubescent: staminate flowers sessile or shortly 
pedicellate, about 2 mm. long; calyx green, campanulate, 5-lobed, lobes 
ovate, glabrous, with a plain midrib; corolla 5-partite, lobes ovate, 
