Momordica. | LXIV. CUCURBITACER (HOOKER). 537 
Mozamb. Distr. Shamo on the Shire, Dr Kirk! with excellent analysie, 
ene horizontal buds, gibbous calyx-tube and oblique flowers are perhaps unique in 
e Urder. 
». M. trifoliolata, Hook. 7. n. sp. Glabrous, Stem angular and 
stooved, slender, wiry. Leaves very shortly petioled, 3-foliolate ; 
eaflets petioled, 1 in. long, ovate, obtuse, apiculate, rarely lobed, 
rounded or cordate at the base, obscurely distantly serrate, rather coria- 
ceous, minutely granulate on both surtaces when dry; petioles + in. 
endrils simple. Male 4. : Irregularly racemose; peduncles as long 
as or longer than the leaves ; pedicels very variable, spreading, with 
subulate bracts at their bases and an orbicular small bracteole at the 
4pex appressed to each flower. Calyx-tube hemispheric, lobes subor- 
cular, obtuse, Corolla 1 in. in diameter, yellow. Anther-cells flexu- 
as: Female fl. : unknown.—Momordica sp., Thomson in Speke and 
Grant’s Travels, Appendix p. 635. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zungomero, lat. 7° 27’ S., Grant! 
6. M. Balsamina, Linn. ; Ser. in DC. Prod. iii. 811. Moncecious; 
labrous or young parts slightly pubescent. Stem very slender. 
Caves membranous, 13—3} in. in diameter, orbicular, palmately 3—5- 
lobed to about the middle, lobes rhomboid, deeply acutely lobulate ; 
basal sinus deep and broad. ‘Tendrils simple. Male fl.: Peduncle 
°nger than the leaf, bract towards its apex, 1-flowered, green, or- 
cular-cordate or reniform, almost entire. Calyx-lobes thin, ovate, 
acuminate, Corolla irregular, yellow or white, centre black, }—1 in. 
iu diameter, Anther-cells flexuous; connective broad. Female fl. : 
-duncle 4 in. long; bract 0 or basal. Calyx-lobes narrower. Ovary 
siform, beaked, warted, Fruit broadly ovoid, narrowed into the pe- 
“can beaked, smooth, red, fleshy, 1-3 in. long; seeds many, pale 
Town, 3 in, long, broadly oblong, flattened ; edges broad, tubercular, 
e" Ooved, teeth crustaceous.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. 1.291; Naud. in Ann. 
* Nat. sér. 5, v. 21, 
Upper Guinea. (Cape de. Verd, Brunner! Hence probably all Senegambia.) 
age Land. Nubia, Kotschy / Schweinfurth! Abyssinia, Petit. ‘ a cad 
le ad Asiatic and South African plant, found also in Australia, an 
_* ® closely allied Natal M. involucrata, which has broad obtuse calyx-lobes, has not 
®n collected hitherto in Tropical A trica. 
"Ng M. Charantia, Linn. ; Naud. in Ann, Soc. Nat. sér. 4, 7 151. 
1 eeious ; glabrous or pubescent-pilose. Stem very slender. Leaves 
thee in diameter, membranous, reniform-orbicular, pedately 5-7- 
obed to near the base, basal sinus broad, lobes oblong lanceolate or 
thomboid, often much contracted at the base, obtusely sinuate or lobu- 
ate. Tendrils simple. Male peduncle 1-5 in., very slender ; bract 
about the middle, reniform or orbicular-cordate, green, quite entire, 
‘UYX-lobes ovate, acute. Corolla irregular, 4-13 in. in area 
yellow, Anthers flexuous, connective narrow. Female peduncle 
slender, 1_6 in., bracteate towards the base. Ovary fusiform, rostrate, 
