Trochomeria. | LXIV. CUCURBITACEZ (HOOKER). 525 
? Form 3. Leaves as in form 1, but lobes lanceolate, sometimes with orbicular pecti- 
nate stipular bracts at the base. : led 
Form 4, Leaves broadly reniform-cordate, acuminate, obscurely lobed or angled, 
irregularly and obtusely toothed, peduncles solitary or in pairs, 1-flowered. 
Mozamb. Distr. Form2. Open country N. of Chiradzura, Lat. 14°-19° S. 
Dr. Kirk! 
Lower Guinea. Forms 3 and 4. Angola, Pungo Andongo, dry woods and bushy 
places, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
2. T.. vitifolia, Hook.f. Stems almost glabrous, climbing amongst 
grass. Leaves very variable, sometimes reduced or absent, triangular- 
cordate, acute, with a broad basal sinus, 3—5-lobed or angie coarsel 
unequally toothed, all but glabrous above, minutely pubescent a 
scattered hairs below, not scabrid, membranous. Stipular bracts broa Wy 
ovate-cordate, deeply ciliate-toothed. Male #1: fe capillary 1- 
flowered peduncles 2-21 in. long. Calyx-tube 4 in. long, 3 in. diameter, 
cylindric. Corolla-lobes as long as the calyx-tube, subulate-lanceolate. 
Female 1: Shortly peduncled, calyx and corolla as in the male. 
Ovary slightly pubescent. 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Golungo Alto, alt. 1000-2400 ft., amongst grasses and 
shrubs on ston hills, Dr. Welwitsch ! oe . 
Root very ie eaten by the negroes, and used asa medicine. The eaten st the 
best developed specimens are triangular-cordate, with a large shallow sinus at the base. 
3. T. macroura, Hook. f. Stem glabrous or slightly scabrid. 
Leaves very variable, oblong-hastate, entire with the basal lobes more 
or less spreading or digitately 5-lobed to near the base, margins rics 
arly rather obtusely toothed; lobes linear or lanceolate or o pili 
slightly scabrid on both surfaces, upper without white ia sitdecal 
with minute black papille ; petioles short. Male fl. : oa eee 
ong, capillary, 2—3-flowered, with the capillary pedice 8 me in. 
long. Calyx-tube very slender, funnel-shaped, 14 th long ; i oH le 
long, subulate or almost filiform. Anthers hairy at the tips. Fema 
+: not seen, ; 
Upper Guinea. Open country, Nupe on the Niger, Barter 
here is another pec appreckly of this genus, collected by err in sac 
Central Africa, which in its much divided leaves, covered above — aks a ite 
papille, resembles the South African J. debilis (Zehneria, Sond.), but the re gent 
much larger and oblong, the seeds are as large as those of JT. macrocarpa, from whic 
its papillose leaves distinguish it. : es 
la Dr. Welwitsch’s mleckioees there is perhaps a fourth species, differing from 7. ma- 
in be; ; branous leaves 
<’ecarpa in being almost glabrous, and having larger and more mem ‘ , 
3-lobed to near the base, the middle lobe oblong lanceolate, the latter falcately curved 
u 
wards and cut into two broad obliquely obovate obtuse lobules: it may be a form of 
. vitifolia, 
38. HETEROSICYOS, Welwitsch; Benth. et Hook. f. 
Gen. Plant. i. 822. 
Flowers of Trochomeria, but erect pubescent herbs, without tendrils. 
Probably better regarded as a section of T'rochomeria, remarkable for its habit and 
€ absence of tendrils. 
Leaves polymorphous. Flowers brown-purple . - + + ++ - 2 i cei 
aves all 3-partite with linear segments. Flowers straw-yellow. 2. H. 
