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persistentibus. Semina in quoque loculo solitaria, ala brevi marginata. — 'PtniQX puhescens, ramosus. Folia 
opposita suhsessilia, oblongo-lanceolata utrinque pubescentia, subintegerrima. Flores longe pedicellati, 
corymboso-racemosi, terminales : alabastrum obovoideum, obliquum. Petala purpurea. 
1. D. lopezioides. (Tab. LX.) 
The immature seeds are flat, compressed ; we have not observed more than one ovule in each cell of the i 
ovarium. This genus connects Lopezia with Hauya. 
Tab. lx. Diplandra lopezioides. Fig. 1. Flower ; Jig. 2. The same laid open ; Jig. 3. Capsule ; Jig. 4. 
Capsule laid open ; Jig. 5. Receptacles and dissepiments ; Jg. 6. Outer ; and Jg. 7. inner view of a seed : — 
magnijied. 
Ord. XXXVII. CUCURBITACEiE. Juss. 
1. Elaterium ? quinquejidum ; caule glabro, foliis glabriusculis cordato-suborbicularibus 
subquinquefidis sinuato-crenatis, lobo terminali acuminato caeteris sinubusque rotundatis, 
cirrhis bifidis, floribus masculis subumbellatis longe pedunculatis, femineis subsessilibus 
solitariis, fructu (nucis Juglandia regice fere inagnitudine) glabro parce echinato. 
Hab. Acapulco. — We cannot make out whether the fruit, before being pressed, was reniform, as in others 
of the genus, or ovoid. 
1. Momordica Balsamina. Linn. 
1. Sicyos vitifolius ; caule sulcato subtriquetro pube glanduloso scabriusculo, foliis 
cordato-subrotundis quinquelobis scabris, lobis latis obtusis subdenticulatis, cirrhis sub- 
bifidis, floribus masculis subcorymbosis longe pedunculatis, femineis glomeratis breve 
pedunculatis, fructibus ovatis longe spinuliferis, spinis obscabris, seminibus ovoideis 
utrinque obtusis.— S. vitifolius. Willd. ? 
The fruit is about a line and a half or two lines long, and the spines about the same length. 
1. Anguria? dubia? caule stricto, foliis profunde trilobis basi cuneatis supra scabris 
subtus hirsuto-pubescentibus, sinubus obtusis, lobis cuneato-oblongis serratis obtusiusculis 
mucronatis, floribus masculis racemosis, femineis in eadem axilla subternis pedicellatis. 
We have described the position of the flowers of this plant, from the remains of the peduncles and pedicels ; 
both flowers and fruit have fallen off. The genus, therefore, is very obscure ; it has more the habit of 
Tacsonia or Passiflora than of the Cucurbitacece, but there are no glands on the leayes or petioles, and the 
cirrhi are lateral. 
Ord. XXXVIII. PASSIFLORE^. Juss. 
1. Passiflora viridiflora. Cm. Jc. 5. tab. 424 P. tubiflora. H. B. K. Nov. Gen. 2. p. 
139? De Cand. Prod. 3. p. 332? — Tacsonia? viridiflora. Juss. — De Cand. 1. c. p. 336. 
Hab. Acapulco. — Judging from the description, we do not conceive that Humboldt’s plant differs in the 
smallest degree from that of Cavanilles. In ours, the pedicels are sometimes solitary, sometimes in pairs. 
The fruit is almost globose, six or seven lines in diameter, supported on a stalk about an inch and a quarter 
long. The seeds are compressed, oval, acute at both ends, whitish, and deeply filled with wrinkles. It 
