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LVII. CUCLfRBITACExE. 
[Alsomitra. 
elongate-clavate, terete or sub-trigonous, truncate and 3-valved at the apex. 
Seeds very many, compressed vertical in 6 rows, much corrugated, incised or 
horned on the margin with a terminal membranous wing longer than the seed or 
none. — Large climbers, tendrils simple or 2-branched. Leaves with 3 oblong 
entire or serrated leaflets, with usually 2 glands at the base. Flowers small, 
dioecious, in compound panicles with filiform branches.— Gen. PI. l.c. 
Leaves 3 to 5-lobed, deep-green. Petioles and peduncles glandular-pilose, 
membranous, distantly repando-denticulate. Tendrils simple or 2 or 
3-tid. Fruit papilose-verrucose 1. A. capricorniea. 
Leaves trifoliolate. Leaflets ovate-oblong, entire, glabrous. Petiolules 
short, eglandulous. Tendrils simple. Fruit smooth. Seed dark-brown, 
slightly rough on both sides 2. A. Hookeri. 
Leaves trifoliolate. Leaflets entire, reticulate ; glands of the petiolules 
with small depressed glands. Tendrils simple 3. A. Stephensiana. 
Stems very long, with corky flanges. Leaves trifoliolate. Leaflets 2 to 4in. 
long. Tendrils simple or 2-branched. Male flowers in racemose panicles. 
Female flowers solitary . 4. A. suberom. 
1. A. capricorniea (from locality where found), /•'. r. M. Fragni. vii. 61 ; 
Cogniaux in DC. Mon. Phan. iii. 929. A short climbing plant with thin, scarcely 
branching sulcate stems. Petioles about lin. long, glandular-pilose. Tendrils 
copious, sometimes very long, slender, sulcate at the base and often bifid at the 
end. Leaves bright-green, 2 to Sin. long and often 3 to 5-lobed, the basal sinus 
large, not deep ; lobes deltoid. Common peduncle about lin. long ; pedicels of 
the male flowers capillary, glabrous, about 1 line long. Calyx-lobes 5, semilanceo- 
late acute, the tube as long as the lohes, also glabrous. Corolla light-yellow, 
membranous, campanulate, 5-lobed, lobes broad-ovate, almost acute, scarcely 1 
line long. Filaments forming a glabrous column scarcely ^ line long. Anthers 
pale-yellow, £ line long, when expanded almost orbicular. Fruit peduncles 4 to 
5 lines long, slender, pilose. Capsule subcylindrical, i - ounded at the base, green, 
chartaeeous, fragile, about lin. long. Seeds spathulate-obovate, dentate-tuber- 
culate on the margin, attenuate at the base, brown, scarcely 3 lines long, with an 
oblique terminal wing whitish and transparent. 
Hab.: Gracemere, near Rockhampton, P. A. O’ Slimiest/ (F. v. M. l.c.) ; Cape Cleveland, A . 
Cunningham (Cogniaux l.c.) 
2. A. Hookeri (after Sir J. I). Hooker), F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 188 ; Cogniaux 
in DC. Mon. Phan. iii. 933. Branches angular, with a short pubescence. 
Petioles slender sulcate, shortly villous or nearly glabrous, A to lin. long. Leaves 
trifoliolate ; leaflets green on both sides, smooth, ovate-oblong, shortly acuminate, 
2.V to 4Ain. long, 1 to 2in. broad, the lateral ones slightly unequal-sided at the 
base, petiolules short, eglandulose. Tendrils slender, simple, very long, sulcate 
and puberulous Male panicles much-branched with many flowers, terminal or 
lateral, flexuose and slender, 10 to 20in. long, 5 to Tin. broad ; pedicels capillary, 
puberulous, often fasciculate, 2 to 7 lines long, bracteolate at the base. Bracteoles 
subulate, J to 1 line long, Calyx puberulous ; segments linear-lanceolate, £ line 
long, about J line broad. Corolla very short, puberulous, greenish-yellow, 
segments ovate, obtuse, 3-nerved, about 1 line long. Filaments scarcely £ line 
long. Fruit ellipsoid-cylindric, truncate, brown, sparsely pilose, 1 to 2in. long. 
Seeds in outline subtriangular, both margins bilobed, base attenuated, apex 
truncate, 3^ lines long, 3 lines broad ; wing oblique, of a dirty white, transparent, 
oblong, rounded at the apex, 6 or 7 lines long, 3 lines broad. — DC. Mon. 
Phan. l.c. 
Hab.: Rockingham Bay, Cape York. IV. Man and Beceari (F. v. M. l.c.) 
3. A. Stephensiana (after T. B. Stephens), Cogniaux in DC. Mon. 
Phan. iii. 931. Plant sparsely pubescent or almost glabrous. Leaves 3-foliolate, 
herbaceous ; leaflets 3i to Sin. long, 2 to 2iin. broad, entire terminal one ovate- 
