550 LXIV. CUCURBITACEE (HOOKER). [ Dimorphochlamys. 
1. D. Mannii, Hook. f. lc. Stem slender, angular, very faintly 
scabrid. Leaves rigid, 3-5 in. long, 3-nerved at the base, variable in 
breadth, teeth small, distant, often setose, nerves prominent beneath, 
much reticulated. Male fl.: Calyx turbinate, 2-winged, the wings 
reticulate and extending from the base of the pedicel to the back of 
the lobes, hence pedicel and wings together are obcordate in outline, 
Zin. in diameter; lobes }in. long. Corolla 1 in. long, campanulate. 
Fruit 2} in. in diameter, crowned with linear calyx-lobes 1 in. long. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Bagroo river, Old Calabar and Ambas bay, Vogel! 
Mann! Rev. W. C. Thomson! 
20. CEPHALANDRA, Schrad.; Benth. et Hook. f. 
Gen. Plant. i. 827. 
Flowers usually dicecious. Male fl.: Solitary or subcymose at the 
apex of a slender peduncle. Calyx short, campanulate or turbinate, 
5-toothed. Corolla campanulate, shortly acutely 5-lobed. Filaments 
3, inserted in the bottom of the calyx-tube, connate, rarely ar 
anthers connate or cohering, cells conduplicate. Rudiment of ovary Y- 
Female fl.: Solitary. Staminodes short or long. Ovary ovoid oblong 
or linear ; style slender; stigmas 3-lobed or partite ; ovules numerous 
on 3 placentas. Berry cylindric or oblong, terete. Seeds numerous, 
ovate, compressed, margined ; testa smooth or rough.—Slender, pros 
trate or climbing, glabrous or scabrid herbs; root (always ?) toner 
Leaves angled or lobed, sometimes glandular. Tendrils undivided. 
tate white or yellow, large or small. Fruit rather small, very 
eshy. - 
Male peduncles 1-flowered. B 
Leaves palmately slightly:5-lobed or angled. . . . - - - 1. @, Indica | 
Leaves digitately deeply Blobed . . . . . ~~. . + - - 2 GC. quengue 
Male peduncles many-flowered. 
Leaves petioled, —— or pustulate, 5-lobed, lobes hc O. diversifoltt 
ceolate SP ag howe ce Sere 3. 
Leaves petioled, very pubescent, 5-7-lobed, lobes linear . 4. C. pubescens 
Leaves petivled, 2-pinnatifid. . . . 5. C. deciprens- 
Leaves sessile or subsessile, pustulate 6. 0. Sener 
1. ©. Indica, Nand. in Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 5, v. 16. Stem much 
branched, angular and grooved, slightly rough with papille. i 
2-4 in. broad, bright green, studded with green papille, palmately 
3—5-angled or lobed; basal sinus deep or shallow ; lobes broad, pier 
acute or obtuse and apiculate, more or less sinuate-toothed; @ a 
circular glands are placed at the base of the leaf between the a : 
petioles as long as or shorter than the leaves. Male fl. : Poier 
1-flowered, shorter than the petioles, very slender, jointed below t 
flower. Calyx broadly obconie; lobes subulate. Corolla ] in. _ 
Fruit oblong or cylindric, bright red marbled with white, Me 
long.—Cvecinia indica, Wight Il. ii. t. 105; Hook. Ic. Pl. t 1 rs 
A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 290. C. Schimperi, Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. set 
