IV. MELOTHR1A GRANDIFOLIA T. & G., AND ITS TRUE POSITION.
Melothria grandifolia, published by Torrey and Gray in IS4o, soon disappeared from the pages of succeeding botanical works and in Prof. Cogniaux's Monograph of the Cucurbitaccae we find the name in an appended list of doubtful species. The apparent rarity of the species, or at least the scarcity of sped
mens in herbaria may account for the way in which the plant was excluded from botanical literature by later authors; an examina tion of the original specimens of the plant in question, however, shows that it is not a ilfilothritz in the modern sense and hereafter may be known as