Physedra.] LXIV. CUCURBITACEE (HOOKER). 553 
on 3 placentas. Fruit oblong. Seeds (unripe) obovate, compressed, 
margined, smooth.—Climbing, tropical African, glabrous, glaucous 
herbs or shrubs; branches slender. Leaves shortly petioled ; palmately 
5~7-lobed ; young ones very polymorphous. Tendrils undivided. 
Male flowers on short stout pedicels, fascicled on a short stout 
F Ne in ne Tareas ce RO 
emale flowers on long slender pedicels, racemed on a long slen- 
der peduncle. . . Bae oy Fo ee: 
1. P. heterophylla. 
2. P. longipes. 
1. P, heterophylla, Zook. f. Leaves very variable, 4—5 in. long, 
2-5 in, broad, subdeltoid-ovate or palmately 3—5-lobed or angled, lobes 
short and broad, or leaf deeply 5-lobed with longer oblong acute lobes ;: 
asal sinus large and open in the simple leaves, deep and closed in the 
obed Ones ; tips of leaves and their segments subulate and hooked, 
vown and hard when dry, fragile and succulent when fresh; upper 
surface papillose, lower covered with minute raised points; petiole very 
short, -}in. Tendrils long and stout. Male fl.: Crowded on a very 
short axillary peduncle, very shortly pedicelled. Calyx-tube turbinate ; 
lobes spreading, 4 in. long. Corolla fleshy, cylindric, 2 in. long by 
In. broad, coriaceous, orange-yellow, 5-lobed to about the middle, 
clothed with long papille within. Female #l.: Solitary, or panicled on 
a short stout peduncle. Ovary narrow, ovoid, glabrous, } in. long. 
alyx-tube 2 in. long, lobes and corolla as in the male. Fruit shortly 
cy lindrie, rounded at both ends 1-1} in. long. Seeds very numerous, 
1~5th in. long. : 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Golungo Alto, thickets, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
aT. 8. Leaves subdigitately 7-lobed below the middle, acutely serrate with Jong 
Points to the serratures, and the lobes terminating in longer slender tails. 
Ower Guinea. Angola, forests, Dr. Welwitsch! 
2. P, longipes, Hook. f. Leaves 4—5 in. long and broad, palmately 
5-lobed to near the base; lobes lanceolate or oblanceolate, long acumi- 
nate, quite entire, sinus narrow, two lateral spreading, falcate and de- 
exed, with oblique bases which approach or overlap beyond the petiole 
ark brown when dry; petiole 14-2 in. long. Tendrils very long an 
stout. Male Hl., peduncles 2—4 in. long, slender, flexuous ; bracts small, 
out, fleshy, recurved or revolute; pedicels 4—1 in. spreading. Male 
nds only seen, 4 in. long. Calyx-tube turbinate, lobes short. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Vogel! Sierra del Crystal, Mann / 
22. RHAPHIDIOCYSTIS, Hook. f.; Benth. et Hook. f. 
Gen. Plant. i. 828. 
Moneecious, Flowers solitary or fascicled and axillary. Male: Calyx 
;apanulate ; lobes 5, pectinately pinnatifid. Corolla campanulate ; 
*2es 5, short, acute. Filaments 3, free, inserted at the base of the 
calyx ; anthers connate, cells flexuous. Rudiments of ovary 0. Female 
- on longer pedicels. Staminodes 0. Ovary oblong or globose, hispid ; 
Yle columnar, inserted in a depressed disk; stigmas J, each with 3-5 
