Pephonia. | LXIV. CUCURBITACEH (HOOKER). 527 
ferefhce except in the colonr of the flower. The species is very closely allied to the | 
South African P. McKennii, Naud., a much larger plant, with sharply toothed leaves, 
and) a shorter funnel-shaped calyx-tube. 
2. P. Cienkowskii, Hook. f. Sparsely hairy with flaccid articulate 
hairs. Leaves 3 in. broad, reniform or broadly ovate-cordate, 5-7- 
lobed, lobes broad, obtusely ciliate-toothed; petioles rather short. 
Male peduncles shorter than’ the leaves, stout. Flowers shortly race- 
mose at the apex of the peduncle; pedicels 4 in. long, pilose; bracts 
oblong-linear, the lower leaf: , longer than the pedicels. Calyx-tube 
§ in. lone, cylindric, slightly dilated below, nearly glabrous, lobes 
subulate, recurved. Anther-column cylindric, with a very obscure 
short pencil of hairs at the tip, cells simply conduplicate.—Adznopus? 
Cienkowshii, Schweinf. Rel. Kotschy. 45, t. xxx. 
Nile Land. Fesoglu, Cienkowski. 
Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Dr. Kirk! 
y only specimen is in the same state as Schweinfarth’s; that is, with leaves and 
male buds only. 
3. P. lagenarioides, Hook.f. Stem stout and all parts covered 
with short lax flaccid hairs. Leaves 4—7 in. broad, herbaceous, young 
thickly villous, broadly reniform, with a deep broad sinus, obscurely 
9-lobed, subdigitately 7-12-veined, lobes very rounded, snip? rather 
sharply toothed ; petioles short, stout, 1 in. long. Tendrils 2-fid. 
eduncles 1-Howered. Male 3—4 in. long. Calyx-tube 4 in. long, 
etween funnel- and bell-sha ed; lobes lanceolate, recurved, acuminate, 
alf as long as the tube. Corolla-lobes about 1 in. long, yellow-white 
(Welm.), ruit shortly peduncled, “‘ sub-cylindric, orange-red, 24—3 in. 
long, 1-1} in. diameter, smooth smelling of cucumbers. Seeds black, 
: : : he trun- 
harrow, obovoid, compressed, smooth, rather contracted at the 
cate base, not shining nor margined.” Welw. 
Lower Guinea. Huilla region, Angola, bushy places, alt. 5400 ft. on the Morro 
de Topollo, Dr. Welwitsch! A remarkable species, in foliage closely resembling Lage- 
naria vulgaris at first sight, but the leaves are eglandular, and the structure of the 
ower and fruit is totally different. ‘ ; 
fre is a third species in the Hookerian herbarium from Zanzibar (Cucurbita cucul- 
re Bojer) ; it is very near P. Vogelii, if not a variety, but the leaves are less lobed, 
and flowers larger. [have seen an imperfect male specimen only. 
>. ADENOPUS, Benth.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 823. 
Dicecious, Male fl.: Racemose. Calyx-tube elongate, sub-cylindric, 
obes 5, subulate, recurved. Corolla rotate; lobes 5, obovate. Fila- 
ments free, inserted within the calyx-tube; anthers 3, included, co- 
ering in a cylindric column, cells flexuous and transversely condupli- 
cate ; connective not produced, Rudiment of ovary short. Female 4. : 
Solitary, Staminodes 0. Calyx-tube not produced beyond the ovary. 
9 ty subglobose, style short; stigmas 3, broad; ovules many, on 
% placentas. Fruit spherical or broadly ovoid. Seeds many, obovate, 
Compressed ; testa smooth, notched at the apex.—Scandent, scabrous, 
Pubescent-tomentose herbs or shrubs. Leaves 3-9-lobed, sinuate- 
