648 PHANEROGAMIA. 



thickly beset with soft and barbless prickles, about five-seeded. Seeds 

 coarsely tuberculate. 



8. SICYOS, Linn. 



§ 1. EUSICYOS. — Fructus compressus vel turgidus, haud angulatus, setts retrorsum 

 scabris armatus, rariusve inermis; pericarpio tenui. Antherce 3-5, sinuosce, capi- 

 tato-connatce. 



1. SlCYOS AUSTRALIS, Endl. 



Sicyos australis, Endl. Prodr. Fl. Norf. p. 67. 



S. angulatus, Forst. Prodr. Ins. Austr. p. 68; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 72, non Linn. 



S. Fretensis, Hook. f. in Lond. Jour. Bot. 6, p. 473. 



Hab. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. New South Wales : probably 

 near Sydney. 



Both the male flowers and the fruit are less than half the size of 

 those of S. angulatus , being no larger than in S. jparvifiorus ; which, 

 however, has a different foliage. 



2. Sicyos l^evis, Sp. Nov. 



S. glaber ; foliis cordatis brevissime petiolatis vix lobatis ; racemo mascido 

 sinaplici brevi; fructu ovato glaberrimo inermi. 



Hab. Andes of Peru, in the vicinity of Obrajillo. 



Only a single and small specimen of this plant occurs in the collec- 

 tion, with male flowers and with immature fruit. The stem is 

 slender, almost filiform, glabrous, as is the whole plant, except a slight 

 hairiness on the younger foliage. Leaves cordate with a deep sinus, 

 which exceeds the comparatively very short petiole, so that in the 

 specimen they appear somewhat as if clasping; they are 1£ to 2 

 inches long (the petiole 2 or 3 lines long), ovate in outline, cuspidate- 

 acuminate, nearly entire, or slightly five-lobed or angulate-toothed, 



