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CALYOI FLORAS. 
This is the Chocho of South America, and the Ghayots 
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. ? Style 
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 Lander sia. 
Cucumis minima, fructu ovali nigro lasvi. Sloane, 1. 
227. t. 142. f 1. — Melothria scandens, Browne, 124. — 
Melothria pendula. Linn. Sp. 49. 
II A B. Common on fences, and in ruinate Coffee-pieces. 
F L. Throughout the year. 
Root composed of filiform white branching fibres. 
Stem herbaceous, filiform, anguloso-suloated, subglabrous, 
scandent, sarmentose at the base. Leaves alternate, pet- 
iolate, sub-triangulari-cordate, usually sub-trilobate; the 
middle lobe the largest, terminating in a callous apicula ; 
lateral lobes usually augmented by a smaller lobe, thus 
rendering the leaf sub-quinque-lobate : all of them angu- 
lari-dcntate, hispid, nerved, and veined, shining, of a deep 
gieen colour: petiole subterete, angular, channelled, his- 
pid ulous. 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-sceded : cells 2, 
lineai 1 , lateral, with the margins aurantio-ciliulated. Ru- 
diments of the pistil a depressed annular disk. ? Flow- 
