od+ LXIV. CUCURBITACEH (HOOKER).  [Ihaphidiocystis. 
erect subulate lobes; ovules very numerous, on 3 placentas. Fruit 
oblong, crowned with the persistent perianth, covered with spreading 
needle-like bristles, dry internally when ripe. Seeds numerous, ovoid, 
compressed, margin obtuse ; testa coriaceous.—Climbing, slender, ee 
brous or hispidulous, Tropical African shrubs. Leaves on slender 
petioles, ovate, deeply cordate, acuminate. Tendrils undivided. Flowers 
rather large, yellow, on slender pedicels. 
Branches glabrousor puberulous. . ....-.--.-.-.-- SLs Manzi. sg 
Re ORIN oh a oO a + pe ee 4. Welwttschit. 
1. R. Mannii, Hook. f.1.c. Stem climbing extensively, glabrous or 
uberulous, very slender, angular. Leaves 3—4 in. long, very a 
oo, brown when dry, basal sinus short, rounded, more oF ve 
distinctly 3—5-lobed, lateral lobes small, terminal elongate-triangwar, 
acuminate, obscurely distantly toothed, both surfaces slightly Not 
shortly hispid; petiole very ‘slender, ciliate upwards. Male 4l.: . 
seen. Female fl. : 2-3 together, on short peduncles that lengthen pe 
in fruit. Ovary narrow-oblong, + in. long, hispid with (when ae 
ferruginous hairs. Calyx-tube campanulate, lobes recurved, peotina 
branched, throat with a ring of hairs. Fruit subsessile or long-pe ae 
cled, $ in. long, densely clothed with stiff articulate ferruginous bristles. 
Seeds broadly obovoid, + in. long. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, alt. 2000 ft., Mann! 
2. R. Welwitschii, Hook. f.1.c. A lofty climber. Branches yer 
stout, peduncles, petioles, and tendrils densely clothed with soft Mite’ 
hairs, when young these and all other parts merely pubescent. 3-5. 
2—4 in. long and broad, broadly ovate-cordate or nearly rounded, : 
angled or -lobed, minutely toothed, pubescent above, beneath eve 
densely clothed with pale brown woolly matted hairs; petiole s se 
lin. long. ‘endrils stout. Male- 4. : Shortly peduncled, ol 
few. Calyx hispid; lobes short, pinnatifid. Corolla } in. on a 
apparently 5-lobed to below the middle. Female fl.: Pedune Ova 
sometimes a foliaceous orbicular toothed bract at the base. arbi 
geese, hispid. Calyx-tube above the ovary campanulate, cal 
Jorolla campanulate, 5-lobed to the middle. Fruit (immature) 4 ee 
globose, densely clothed with rufous articulate shining bristles ; pe = 
1-2 in. Seeds very broadly obovoid. 
* ngua, 
Lower Guinea. Angola, dense forests, Sierra de Alta and Sobati de Musseng® 
Dr. Welwitsch! 
eyed * in the 
Dr. Welwits:h observes that the plant varies much in pubescence, but little 1 
foliage ; I find the calyx-lobes to vary in amount of incision. 
23. STAPHYLOSYCE, Hook. f.; Benth. et Hook. f. 
Gen. Plant. i. 828. 
. t' . 
Monecious ? Flowers shortly spiked. Male: Calyx iG ge 
lobes 5, short, recurved, remote. Corolla 5-lobed to the middle, 
