552 LXIV. CUCURBITACEH (HOOKER). [ Cephalandra. 
a short peduncle ; pedicels stout, pubescent. Fruit oblong, 1 in. long. 
—Momordica Adoensis, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 166. Cueur-, 
bita sp. Schimp. No. 1049 (1853). Cucumis? striatus, A. Rich. Schimp. 
Hb. Abyss. 380 (1853). 
Not having fruiting specimens of the Cape plant, I refer this doubtfully to it. 
5. C. decipiens, Hook. f. Stem slender, angular, grooved, gla- 
brous. Leaves membranous, 3in. in diameter, green, 2-pinnatifid, 
being cut to the base into 3 narrow spreading segments, that are 
oblong-lanceolate in outline, deeply irregularly pinnatifid, with spread- 
ing lobulate acute divisions, upper surface covered with white papille, 
hardly scabrid, lower smooth; petiole 1-1} in. long. Male fl.: Minute, 
very numerous on long capillary pedicels 1 in. long, that are raceme 
on a very short common peduncle. Calyx very short; lobes recurved. 
Corolla broadly campanulate, 1-10th. in. in diameter. Filaments 
almost free. Female fl.: Very minute, shortly peduncled. Ovary fusi- 
form. Fruit solitary or clustered, subsessile, broadly ovoid, rostrate, 1 in. 
long, “ orange-yellow with white spots” (Welwitsch). Seeds immature. 
Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo. Climbing amongst grass, Dr. Welwitsch / 
A most curious species, with the foliage and fruit so like a Rhynchocarpa that without 
an analysis of the minute male flower it is difficult to believe it a Cephalandra. 
6. ©. Senensis, Alotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 151. Stem slender ; 
branches angular, grooved, sparingly clothed with spreading hairs. 
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Leaves dark green, very shortly petioled, membranous, 3—5 in. broad, 
palmately 3—5-lobed to the middle or above it, minutely papillose and 
slightly seabrid with short hairs on both surfaces, glands 0 between the 
veins; lobes broadly oblong, acute or obtuse, mucronate, entire oF 
toothed here and there; petiole hispid, 1} in. long. Male fl.: Pe- 
duncles rather longer than the petioles, 4—6-tlowered, and short gn 
and calyx hispid or pilose. Calyx-lobes subulate. Female fl. : Pe- 
duncle longer or shorter than the male. Ovary slender, glabrous. 
Fruit immature, oblong, subacute at both ends, 1+ in. long. 
Mozamb. Distr. Sena, Peters! Lupata, Tette and Shupanga, Dr. Kirk! . 
There are two other Tropical African Cephalandras in the herbarium, but gee” 
perfect to describe ; one is Abyssinian, Schimper’s No. 250, of 1853, another = 
Shupanga and Moramballa (Kirk), resembles C. diversifolia, but the ieaves are @ mos 
glabrous, neither pustulate nor scabrous, the male flowers glabrous, and the fruit 
obovoid and glabrous. 
21. PHYSEDRA, Hook. f.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. 1.827. 
Calyx- 
Diccious. Flowers solitary, panicled or fascicled. Male: 
Corolla 
tube turbinate or obconic; lohes 5, setaceous, spreading. : 
cylindric-campanulate, fleshy, 5-lobed to the middle. Filaments 8, free, 
inserted on the calyx-tube; anthers broad, thick, obcordate, cells con- 
duplicate aud flexuous. Rudiment of ovary 0. Female 4. : Calyx- 
tube turbinate above, constricted in the middle, globose at the base, 
lobes subulate. Staminodes thick, conical. Ovary linear-oblong 5 
style columnar, stigma large, capitate, 3-lobed; ovules very numerous 
