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oval head or column much longer than its stalk not exserted 
beyond the cal. -tube, their fil. connivent combined. Fem. : 
cal. and cor. h-partite , base none or reduced to a very nar- 
row rim or ring, sep. and lobes of cor. distinct dozen to and 
sessile on the ov. or very narrow rim or ring at top of it, 
throat of cor. open simple ; stigmas 5 large distinct united on 
a short single obconical stalk. Ov. lageniform or hourglass- 
shaped, the lower part sterile, upper 3-celled. Fr. a many- 
seeded gourd flatly umbilicate at top. Seeds ’flat very 
distinctly bordered, truncate and auricled or bituberculate at 
top ; coat (testa) shelly. 
Tribe II. SICYODBJE. 
The Chocho Tribe. 
Anthers sinuous S-like. Fr. a fleshy drupe. Seed single 
solitary pendulous ; placenta not indexed, aril none or in- 
distinct. 
ttt-3. Sechium. FI. monoecious. Cal. 5-fid, lobes distinct 
remote herbaceous, base hypocrateriform united to cor. 
10-ribbed or torulose. Cor. 5-partite, base cup-shaped with 
a ring of glandular pores or cells, lobes distinct or divided 
down to edge of cal. -cup. Male : fl. in axillary rac., an- 
thers umbellate distinct, their fil. united nearly to the top 
into a single stalk. Fem. : fl. solitary at base of male rac. ; 
style 1 simple. Stigmas combined into a flat-topped calvp- 
triform head. Ov. 1-celled 1-ovulate. Fr. obovate or cla- 
vate compressed with a nearly closed constricted sphinctral 
transverse umbilical cleft at top. Seed flat not bordered ; 
coat (testa) leathery-membranous. 
Tribe I. Cucurbitece. 
1. CuCTTRBITA L. 
Gourd or Pumpkin. 
ttfl* C. moschata Duch. Abobora preta. 
Hirsutely tomentose or hirsute ; 1. large hoary dark lurid-gr. 
mottled or marbled with white, somewhat stiff and harsh, hispid, 
not prickly, 5-lobed cordate, lobes acute sharply toothed with 
acute and shallow or deep rounded sinuses ; ovar. pubescent 
rounded even ; fr. -stalk strongly 5-angular and 5-lobed at its 
insertion; fr. very large mostly globose flatly and obtusely 
ribbed pruinose, flesh deep orange scarcely fibrous, seeds pale 
brown (drab) shining ovate. — Duch. “Diet. Sci. Nat. ii. 234;” 
DC. iii. 317; Naudin in Ann. Sci. Nat. (stir. 4) vi. 47. C. Pepo A. 
