Cephalandra. | LXIV. CUCURBITACEH (HOOKER). 551 
4, xii. 116. €. Moyhadd, Ascherson in Schweinf. Pl. Nub. No. 85. 
Cucurbita exanthematica, Fenzl, Pl. Kotschy. n. 808; A. Rich. Fl. 
Abyss. i, 296. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Dillon! Nubia, Kotschy! Upper Nile, Grant! 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Naudin in Herb. Gay. Confluence of Quorra and 
Tchadda, Barter! 
An abundant Indian plant. 
2. C. quinqueloba, Schrad. ; Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 5, v. 16. 
Stem angular, grooved, smooth, not papillose. Leaves membranous, 
3-5 in. broad, bright green, studded with green papille, digitately 
5-lobed to near the base, basal sinus usually pean and open; lobes 
much waved or lobulate, obscurely toothed, obtuse and apiculate, 
middle one often much longest; petiole shorter than the blade ; glands 
cireular between the base of the nerves. Flowers much as in C. Indica, 
uit not seen, “ oblong-ovoid” (Kotschy).—Bot. Mag. t. 1820; Bot. 
Reg. t. 82.  Coceinia paimatisecta, Kotschy, Pl. Bind. 11. t. 4. 
Nile Land. Binder. Banks of White Nile, Petherick! Grant! 
.s0zamb. Distr. Rovuma river, Dr. Kirk! (A form with entire leaf-lobes ; spe- 
cimen insufficient.) Fruit eatable, Kotschy, l.c. Also a South African species, the 
Specimens of which have usually more sessile, less deeply lobed leaves. 
_3. C. diversifolia, Naud. in Ann. Se. Nat. sér. 5, v. 18, t.1. Monw- 
Clous or dicecious ; hispidly pubescent. Root stout, fusiform. Stems 
and branches slender, glabrous, angled, furrowed, pilose. Leaves 
13-6 in. broad, rather membranous, eglandular at the base, upper 
Ovate-cordate, acuminate, toothed, lower palmately deeply 3—5-lo ed, 
spid on both surfaces, especially on the nerves beneath ; lobes 
ovate-lanceolate, contracted at the base, acuminate, toothed; sinus 
rounded ; petioles shorter than the blade, hispid. Male fl.: Peduncles 
ynger than the leaves, pilose, 5—6-flowered at the apex; apt 
Short or long. Calyx hispid; lobes subulate. Corolla broadly cam- 
te, $in. long and broad. Filaments partially free. Female fl. : 
eduncles short, Ovary hairy. Fruit ovoid, red marbled with white 
or yellowish in lines.—Coecinia Hartmanniana, Schweinf. Reliq. Kotschy. 
42, t. 27, 98, 
Nile sie ; ; 
I Gini thet Soke ees 1853, labelled ©. exanthematica, belongs here, 
he leaves are much larger, and the plant more hairy than in Naudin s cultivated spe- 
Cimens, I have what appears to be a more glabrous form of this plant from Hort. Bot. 
Petrop * labelled Coccinia Indica, which it certainly is not. C. palmata, Sonder, of 
‘ Airica, is very closely allied. 
4G, pubescens, Sond. in Fl. Cap. ii. 493? Stem glabrous or 
pilose with soft spreading hairs, angular and grooved. _ Leaves 2-3 in. 
ong, rather coriaceous, pale beneath, pubescent with short hairs, 
“carcely scabrous or hispid on both surfaces, eglandular at the base, 
deeply digitately 5-7-lobed, lobes narrow, linear-oblong or lanceolate, 
Sharply serrate and often lobed, the middle lobe longest; sinus obtuse 5 
Petiole shorter than the blade. Male fl.: Rather crowded at the end of 
