cucurbitacejE. 129 



inserted on the throat of the calyx, alternating 

 with the sepals. Stamens 5, inserted with the 

 petals, alternating with them, sometimes 10, with 

 every alternate one sterile : anthers 2-celled, 

 didymous. ? Calycine tube adnate to the 

 ovary 5 limb 5-cleft. Petals 5, distinct (or united 

 at the base), oblong. Lamellae (abortive stamens) 

 5. Styles 3, with stigmata broad, obtusely bifid. 

 Fruit globose, fleshy, marked in the centre with 

 a circular line (indicating where the calyx ad- 

 hered) and with 5 cicatrices, internally 3-celled : 

 indehiscent, with the rind solid, and with the 

 central axis large fleshy and 3-gonal ; cells many- 

 ovuled. Seeds compressed^ oval, exalbuminose : 

 embryo straight, with cotyledons plane, subcar- 

 nose. — DC. 



Named in honor of Lewis Fevillee, a French Francis- 

 can monk who travelled in Peru. 



1. Fevillea cordifolia. Antidote Cocoon* 



Leaves cordate acuminate undivided or pent- 

 angulo-sublobate with four of the angles glandu- 

 loso-incrassated. 



Ghandiroba vel nhandiro1)a Brasiliensibus, Sloane, I. 

 200. Fevillea foliis crassioribus glabris quandoque cor- 

 datis, quandoque trilobis, Browne, 317 — F. scandens, 

 Wright's Memoirs, 211— F. cordifolia, Swartz, Obs. 377. 



II A B. Common in damp wooded valleys, and shady 

 places. 



F L. April — June. 



Stem perennial, climbing to a great height. The early 

 leaves are undivided, whereas those towards the end of 

 the branches are pentangulo-lobate, with the four central 

 angles glanduloso incrassated ; otherwise eglandulose ; 

 nerves three with the lateral nerves bifurcated near their 

 origin ; texture thick, glabrous, porose. $ Racemes 

 axillary and terminal, subdivided: peduncle angular, pu- 

 berulous with capitate hairs. Flowers rather small, of 



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