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leaved ; petals five ; disc glandular ; stamens inserted into the 

 rudiment of an ovarium ; fertile flower— styles three ; capsule 

 three-celled ; seed one. 



Named after a professor of botany at Leyden. A genus 

 of greenhouse plants introduced from the Cape, but of no 

 great beauty; the species ave Aeteropkylla, pulchella, patula 3 

 tomentosa, and pubescens, straw-coloured ; alatemoides, eri- 

 coides, polifolia, daphnoides, and polygonoides, white-flow- 

 ered. 



CUCUBBITACEM 



Exogens, with the flowers having the calyx five-toothed, some- 

 times obsolete. Corolla five-parted, scarcely distinguishable from 

 the calyx, very cellular, with strongly-marked veins, sometimes 

 fringed. Of the barren flower, the stamens are five, inserted on 

 the corolla; in the fertile— ovary adherent, one-celled. Fruit 

 more or less succulent ; seeds flat. — Annual or perennial plants, 

 with brittle stems, climbing by tendrils ; leaves usually palmate ; 

 natives of hot countries principally ; many species useful as food, 

 as the cucumber, melon, and vegetable marrow. 



BRYONIA. 



Gen, Char. (Moncecia Syngenesia.) Barren flower — calyx-leaves 



