142 CALYCIFLOR^E. 



This is the Chocho of South America, and the Chayote 

 of Cuba. 



VIII. Landersia. 



Flowers monoecious. Calyx 5-toothed. Co- 

 rolla 5-cleft: divisions bilobed. ^ Stamens 3, 

 distinct : anthers lineari-oblong, tetragonal, trun- 

 cated, with the cells lateral and linear. 9 £tyle 

 3-cleft, surrounded at the base with anurceolated 

 disk : stigma capitate, bipartite : divisions oblong, 

 acute. Fruit ovoid, 3-celled, many-seeded. 



Name bestowed in memory of Landers, the African 

 Traveller. 



1. Landersia pervaga. Straggling Landersia. 



Cucumis minima, fructu ovali nigro leevi. Shane, I. 

 227. t. 142. f I. — Melothria scandens, Browne, 124. — 

 Melothria pendula. Linn. Sp. 49. 



H A B. Common on fences, and in ruinate Coffee-pieces. 



FL. Throughout the year. 



Root composed of filiform white branching fibres. 

 Stem herbaceous, filiform, anguloso-sulcated, subglabrous, 

 scandent, sarmentose at the base. Leaves alternate, pet- 

 iolate, sub-triangulari-cordate, usually sub-trilobate ; the 

 middle lobe the largest, tsrminating in a callous apicula ; 

 lateral lobes usually augmented by a smaller lobe, thus 

 rendering the leaf sub-quinque-lobate : all of them angu- 

 lnri-dentate, hispid, nerved, and veined, shining, of a deep 

 gieen colour: petiole subterete, angular, channelled, his- 

 pidulous. Tendrils solitary, simple. Flowers small, yel- 

 low. <£ Racemes arising between the petiole and the 

 tendril, solitary, few-flowered, shorter than the petiole : 

 pedicels half an inch in length, filiform, 1-flowered. 

 Calyx campanulate, ventricose, contracted at the throat : 

 teeth 5, minute, sharp, erect. Petals 5, united to form a 

 monopetalous corolla, internally, especially at the throat, 

 minutely puberulous : limb 5-cleft; divisions bi-lobed, 

 with the lobes rounded. Stamens 3, scarcely longer than 

 the tube of the corolla : anthers linear, 4-seeded : cells 2, 

 linear, lateral, with the margins aurantio-ciliulated. Ru- 

 diments of the pistil a depressed annular disk. 9 Flow- 



