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33. CUCURBITACEiE. 
ttfOrder XXXIII. CUCURBITACE^. 
The Gourd or Pumpkin Family. 
FI. regular often imperfect unisexual, 1-2-cecious. Cal.-tube 
adnate with the ovary 5-lobed, lobes or sep. imbricate in bud. 
Cor. 5-cleft, or with 5 pet. more or less united together and with 
the cal. at the base, rarely distinct, reticulately veined, valvate 
in the bud. Stam. 3-5, more or less combined or cohering, 
rarely free. Anthers mostly sinuous. Style short; stigmas 3-5, 
2-lobed. Ov. inferior 3-5-celled many-seeded, or 1-celled 1- 
seeded ; placentas pseudoparietal. Fr. a more or less fleshy or 
juicy gourd (pepo), berry or drupe. Seeds ovate or oval mostly 
compressed arillate ; cot. leafy ; embryo straight flat at or near 
the upper end of the seed ; albumen 6. — Succulent herbaceous 
often monoecious or dioecious pi., with long shoots trailing or 
climbing by their extra-axillary tendrils. L. alternate stalked 
large or broad, palmately nerved. Stip. none or obsolete. FI. 
reticulately veined, y., w., or greenish rarely rose or purple, 
scentless, axillary, either solitary or fascicled and stalked, or in 
axillary rac. or corymbs. F r. mostly large, often eatable, but 
sometimes poisonous. 
Tribe I. CUCURBITEjE. 
The Pumpkin, Cucumber, and Melon Tribe. 
Anthers sinuous S-like. Fr. a gourd. Seeds numerous, with 
a watery or pulpy ultimately dry or membranous aril, attached 
to the inflexed or involute placentas or sides of the carpels. 
tttl- Cucurbit a. FI. monoecious axillary mostly solitary 
stalked. Cal. 5-fid, lobes distinct remote herbaceous, base 
hypocrateriform united to cor. Cor. 5-fid, lobes united con- 
siderably above edge of cal.-cup. Male: anthers united or 
cohering into a compact oblong head or column rather 
longer than its stalk, their fil. connivent and combined to- 
gether into a single pyramidal stalk, the whole exserted 
much above the cal.-cup. Fkm. : throat of cor. more or less 
closed by a lobed fleshy crown. Styles mostly 3 combined 
downwards ; stigmas mostly 3 large thick ovate bilobed 
distinct. Fr. a many-seeded gourd, openly or flatly and 
widely umbilicatc at top. Seeds flat bordered ; coat (testa) 
shelly. 
ttt2. Lagenaria. FI. monoecious axillary mostly solitary, 
stalked. Cal. 5-fid or 5-partite, lobes distinct remote her- 
baceous. Cor. 5 -partite, lobes distinct down to edye of cal.- 
tube or ovary. Male: cal. 5-fid, base tubular-campanulate 
united to 5-partite cor. ; anthers cohering into an oblong- 
