534 LXIV, CUCURBITACEE (HOOKER). | Cucumeropsis. 
1. ©. Mannii, Naud. ic. Habit of Cucumis Melo, but less scabrous, 
with more terete branches, different inflorescence and stamens and 
smaller flowers. 
Upper Guinea. Cultivated in the Paris Bot. Garden from the Gaboon, Aubry le 
Comte, and Old Calabar, Jann. ; 
I know the flowers of this plant only from Naudin’s description, and an analysis of 
the male kindly sent me by MM. Decaisne and Naudin. I have excellent specimens 
of the foliage from the Paris garden. 
13. CLADOSICYOS, Hook. f. Gen. Nov. 
Flowers moncecious. Male; Subumbellate on a long peduncle. Calyx- 
tube broadly campanulate, grooved, lobes 5, ovate-subulate. Corolla 
5-cleft to the base, lobes oblong, obtuse. Stamens 3, at the mouth of 
the tube; filaments 0; anthers glabrous, obovate, peltately attached, 
one l-celled, two 2-celled, cells curved on the margin of the broad 
connective. Rudiment of ovary a broad depressed cushion. Female 
ti.: Solitary in the same axil as the male, on a short stout decurve 
pedicel. Staminodes minute or 0. Ovary clavate, smooth ; style 
short, stout, without a basal disk; stigmas 3, obcordate sessile ; ovules 
numerous, on 3 placentas. Fruit subclavate-cylindric, tapering into 
the stout curved pedicel. Seeds not seen.—A large coarse pilose or 
glabrous scandent much branched herb. Leaves large, entire or pal- 
mately 3—5-angled or lobed, petioles stout. Tendrils very stout, Un 
divided. Flowers small, yellow-green. Fruit large, edible. 
_ Genus nearly allied to Cucumeropsis; differing in the fruit, the grooved calyx, 
in waiting the 3 subulate rudimentary organs at the base of the male flower. 
1. C. edulis, Hook. f. Stem very stout below; branches grooved 
and angled, the younger especially pilose with soft spreading hairs: 
Leaves 3-8 in. broad, deeply cordate at the base, sinus rounded, ope 
or closed, membranous and rather succulent, glabrous or minutely 
pubescent beneath, some scarcely angled, others 3—5-lobed, lobes 
usually broadly triangular, rarely [ong, terminal rather the longest, # 
apiculate and furnished with short distant subulate teeth; petioles 
stout, 2-4 in. Male peduncles stout, straight, 1-2 in. ; pedicels short, 
curved. Flowers 4—} in. diameter. Fruit ‘1 ft. long, 3 in. diameter, 
Welw. 
Upper Guinea. Aboh, Buiter! 
Lower Guinea. Angola, in thickets at the margins of forests in Sobato Mussengue, 
and near Camilongo, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
14. MOMORDICA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 825. 
Moncecious or dicecious. Male fi. : Solitary or corymbose or racemose. 
Calyx-tube very short, campanulate, with 2-3 incurved membranous 
scales inside ; lobes rounded ovate or lanceolate. Corolla rotate OF 
campanulate, 5-lobed or -partite, lobes obovate, ribbed, 2 often Jarger 
than the others. Filaments 3, rarely 2 or 5, free, short, inserted at 
the mouth of the calyx-tube; anthers finally free, entire or 2-3.pare 
or lobed, one 1-celled, two 2-celled; cells Hexuous, rarely straight oF 
and 
