556 LXIV, CUCURBITACEE (HOOKER). [ Cucurbita. 
Fruiting peduncle stout, corky, striate, not grooved. Fruit with 
scarcely fibrous pulp. Seeds white-—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 299. 
Upper Guinea. Nupe on the Niger, apparently indigenous, Barter! 
Wile Land. Grant. Abyssinia, &c., cultivated, Schweinfurth ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola, &c., Dr. Welwitsch. 
This, the common gourd, is no doubt cultivated throughout Africa, under various 
forms. 
2. C. Pepo, DC. ; Naudin. lc. 29. Annual. Stem creeping, rarely 
erect, angular and grooved. Leaves 5-lobed, with a deep basal sinus, 
lobes acute, often lobulate; petioles and nerves beneath prickly. _Pe- 
duncles obtusely 5-angled. Calyx of male fl. campanulate, constricted 
beneath the corolla, teeth subulate. Fruiting peduncle often woody, 
angled and deeply grooved. Fruit with fibrous flesh. Seeds white. 
Nile Land. Cultivated in Abyssinia, Schweinfurth! 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 
The Pumpkin, cultivated in all hot countries. 
3. C. moschata, Duchesne ; Naud. 1.c.47. Annual. Stem creeping; 
subterete. Leaves soft, velvety, deep green often marbled with bee 
reniform, toothed, 5—7-lobed, lobes and sinus acute or rounded, petiole 
and nerves beneath never prickly. Peduncle of male fl. hirsute, sub- 
terete. Calyx-tube very short or 0; lobes linear, flat, often folie 
Female fl.: Peduncles 5-angled. Fruit glaucous, pulverulent; pwP 
scarcely fibrous. Seeds white. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, cultivated, Schweinfurth! 
3 : rs 
I have seen no African specimens; but cannot doubt that so common a plant occu 
abundantly cultivated. 
I find seeds of the black-seeded gourd (C. melanosperma, Braun, Naud. |. ¢. 53), 
Dr. Welwitsch’s collection, from specimens recently introduced at Mossamedes. 
25. BRYONOPSIS, Arn. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iii. 274. 
Flowers monecious. Male: Solitary or fascicled on capillary pedi- 
cels. Calyx-tube campanulate, lobes 5, subulate. Corolla campé 
nulate, 5-fid. Filaments 8, short, free, inserted within the calyx-tu)®; 
anthers cohering, one 1-celled, two 2-celled ; cells flexuous roun 
broad connective which is not produced at the apex. Rudiment of OWES 
0. Female #.: Shortly peduncled, few or solitary in the same axil W) 
the male. Calyx-limb contracted at the base.  Staminodes 5, in 
Ovary ovoid; style slender, not inserted in a disk, 3-fid; stigmas bros 
obcordate ; ovules numerous, on 3 placentas. Berry globose, soft. aised 
many, subpyriform, very turgid, surrounded by a very thick ° eid 
grooved crenulate ring on each side of which the tumid faces ° es 
seed project; testa hard.—A perennial-rooted subglabrous - slen 
scandent herb. Leaves 5—7-lobed, cordate at the base. Tendrils --2& 
Flowers small, yellow. Fruit small. 
1. B. laciniosa, Arnott, Ic. Glabrous or slightly hairy. bee 
much branched and leafy. Leaves very membranous, 5—/ 12- 
