115. Cucurbitaceae.—Gourd Family.

Succulent herbs, creeping or climbing by tendrils. Leaves alternate. Flowers monoecious and polygamous; stamens with long and wavy or twisted anthers. Fruit a pepo.


A Manual of Organic Materia Medica and Pharmacognosy, 1917, was written by Lucius E. Sayre, B.S. Ph. M.