Adenopus.] LXIV. CUCURBITACEE (HOOKER). 529 
lobed; lobes triangular or broadly oblong, acute, coarsely toothed, 
green and nearly glabrous above, beneath tomentose with’ appressed 
dirty white pubescence, basal sinus open; glands small, depressed. 
Male peduncles 6-12 in., 3-5-flowered at the apex, stout, nearly gla- 
brous ; pedicels short, unequal, pubescent or woolly, bracteoles small 
or 0. Calyx-tube 1 in. long, 4 in. broad, subclavate, rather ventricose, 
densely woolly; lobes 4 in., subulate-lanceolate, apparently eglandular. 
Corolla 8 in. in diameter. Anther-column cylindric, ? in. long. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper, 1195 (1863-1868) ! 
4. A. eglandulosus, Hovk. J. Stem and petioles slightly pubes- 
cent. Leaves 4-5 in, long, digitately 5-7-lobed to near the base, 
lobes harrow-lanceolate, acuminate, entire or sinuate-lobed, with scat- 
tered hairs on the surface above and on the veins beneath. Male 
.: Peduncle stout, 2-8 in., pilose; pedicels short, pubescent. 
Calyx-tube 4 in. long, cylindric, slightly dilated in the middle; limb 
cup-shaped, with 5 remote, very slender, subulate lobes. Corolla 2-3 
mM. in diameter. Anther-head globose ; cells contortuplicate. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone! 
have a sinyle poor specimen of this most distinct plant; it was received from Mr. 
orson, the eminent pharmacist, by the late R. Brown, and purchased at a sale of some 
of the plants of the latter eentleman. ‘ 
Ss leaves in drying turn very dark brown, as with A. longiflorus. I find no trace 
of glands on the petiole or leaf. 
6. LAGENARIA, Seringe ; Benth. et Hook. f. 
Gen. Plant. i. 823. 
cg lonecions or dicecious. Flowers all solitary ; male CS Long pene 
“alyx-tube bell- or funnel-shaped; lobes 9, spreading. Petals 9, 
free, obovate or obeordate, mucronate. Filaments 3, free, inserted 
Within the calyx-tube ; anthers included, cohering; one 1-celled, 
two 2-celled ; cells flexuous, connective not produced. Rudiment of 
Ovary 0. Female fl.: Shortly peduncled. Staminodes 0. Ovary ob- 
One ovoid or cylindric ; style short, stout; stigmas 3, 2-lobed ; — 
many on 8 placentas. Fruit woody, indehiscent ; flesh corky. Seeds 
Many, compressed, margined, furrowed and ridged longitudinally ; 
testa smooth,—A pubescent, musky-scented, annual, climbing herb. 
eaves broad ; petiole 2-clandular at the apex. Tendrils 2-fid. Flowers 
arge, white, 5. 
Lh vulgaris, Ser.; DC. Prod. iii. 299. Pubescent, scabrous, 
tomentose, villous or almost glabrous. Stem stout, climbing. Leaves 
35 am. broad, orbicular-cordate, undivided angular or more * less 
«lobed, toothed. Flowers 2-5 in. diameter, female smaller. Fruit 
“tremely variable in size and shape.—L. idolatrica, Ser. ? Schimp. Pl. 
byss. No, 1571, 
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Dutivated throughout tropical and subtropical Africa. 
You. ryclwitech remarks that in Angola he finds this plant to be sprees oo 
