Gurania

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Read about Gurania in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Gurania (Anagram of Anguria). Cucurbitaceae. Tall climbers, perennial herbs or shrubs, with simple tendrils: lvs. entire, lobed, or 3-5-foliolate: fls. dioecious or rarely monoecious, small, bractless, the petals pale yellow; male fls. in long-peduncled clusters, the calyx- tube cylindrical or ventricose and the limb 5-parted, the corolla 5-parted into linear or triangular papillose thickened segms., the stamens 2 and free; female fls. solitary on fascicled or capitate on the top of the peduncle, staminodia none, ovary oblong and bearing a bifid style: fr. oblong, terete, many-seeded, the seeds ovate and compressed. There are about 50 guranias in the American tropics, one of which, G. malacophylla, Rodr. (G. eriantha, Andre1, not Cogn.), has recently been mentioned in horticultural literature abroad. This is a strong villous climber with simple broadly ovate sometimes 3- to 5-lobed lvs. 4-8 in. long: male fls. reddish, in a globose head on a, peduncle 6-16 in. long; petals linear-subulate, pubescent; female fls. not described. Upper Amazon. B.M. 8085. R.H. 1904:388. L. H. B. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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