536 LX1V, CUCURBITACEE (HOOKER). { Momordica. 
largest, 8—5 in. long, all membranous, ovate-lanceolate, acute at both 
ends, coarsely sinuate-toothed, teeth aristate, minutely papillose on 
both surfaces when dry, puberulous above ; stipular bract 0 ?; tendrils 
simple. Male fl.: Crowded in the axil of the large (1—2 in. in diameter) 
orbicular, sessile, toothed bract, shortly pedicelled, densely pubescent. 
Calyx-teeth ovate-lanceolate, } in. long, apex slender, acuminate. 
Corolla 3—lin. in diameter, white, with black eye. Female fi.: Soli- 
tary; peduncle 24in.; bract as in the male. Ovary ovoid, covered 
with soft puberulous spines. Fruit similar to I. balsamina (Barter), 
ovoid, narrowed at both ends, densely covered with spreading pu- 
bescent spines. Seeds numerous, turgid, testa crustaceous, uneven. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Don. Fernando Po, Vogel! Barter! Mann! 
Niger and Quorra, Vogel! Barter! 
Lower Guinea? Angola, Golungo Alto, in thickets, Dr. Welwitsch! 
3. M. pterocarpa, Hochst.; Naud. in Ann. Se. Nat. sér. 5, V: 24. 
Moneecious? Pubescent with spreading hairs. Root a large oblong 
tuber. Stem slender. Leaves digitately 5-foliolate, green when dry, 
leaflets ovate-lanceolate; acuminate, obliquely cordate at the base, 
faintly toothed or quite entire, 2-4 in. long, the central largest an 
sometimes lobed at the base. Tendrils simple or bifid. Male 4. : 
Crowded in a short incurved raceme at the end of a peduncle 2-5 ” 
and subtended by an obovate hooded green entire bract 4-2 in. Jong ; 
pedicels as long as the calyx. Calyx }—1 in. long ; lobes ovate, ace 
minate with long points, pilose. Corolla about 1 in. diameter, yo 
anther-cells nearly straight. Female fl.: Solitary, ebracteate ; pedune . 
Zin. Ovary slender, 1 in. long, fusiform, tubercled, ending 1m 8 long 
beak. Calyx-lobes longer and narrower than in the male. Fruit 2-3 “i 
long, ovoid with a long point, with 8-10 short wings, red. See 
nearly orbicular, pale ; testa rugose, thick. : 
Nile Land. Adowa in Abyssinia, Schimper! Petit! Cultivated in Hort., Paris. 
4. M. anigosantha, Hook. f. n. sp. Dicecious. Very sparingly 
hairy. Stem very slender, leaves digitately 5-foliolate ; leaflets mem- 
branous, broadly or narrowly ovate-oblong, acute, obtusely serrate- 
toothed, the teeth apiculate, obliquely truncate or subcordate at a 
base, minutely papillose when dry. Tendrils very slender, 2-fid. Male 
fl.: Numerous, irregularly subpaniculate or racemed on very slender 
ebracteate pedicels 1-2 in: ; pedicels long and slender the lowest some- 
times minutely bracteolate at the base. Calyx-tube broadly campan® 
late, oblique, deflexed, gibbous at the base; lobes ovate-subulate, 
spreading, tips filiform, the lower large. Corolla obliquely rotate, 
yellow, 14 in, diameter, lobes acuminate. Anther-cells nearly sttalg ” 
connective narrow; a small hairy staminode placed between the en 
(2-celled?) anthers. Female fi.: Peduncle short with a mm 
bract towards the base. Ovary fusiform, muricate, beaked. Fruit taper 
Kirk’s drawing) ovoid, beaked, 2 in, long, covered with large triangu# 
compressed prominences, glaucous-green. 
