Zehneria. | LXIV, CUCURBITACEE (HOOKER). 559 
Leaves almost glabrous. Seeds lenticular, #, in. long, border 
faintly thickened . ve Gb cel ER gt 3.? Z, microsperma. 
aves with white wool beneath’. . . . . . « + s ¢ 4& Zi velitina. 
Male flowers capitate panicled corymbose or racemose on a 
long peduncle. 
Leaves very pubescent beneath. Calyx-tube short. . . . 5. Z. scabra? 
Leaves glabrous. Flowers very minute ... .. . . 6. Z micrantha. 
Leaves scabrid, deltoid, petiole slender. . . . . . . . %. J deltoid-a. 
Leaves scabrid, much lobed, almost sessile. . . . . . . 8. Z racemosa. 
od. Ze angolensis, Hook. f. Monccious or dicwcious; glabrous. 
Stems slender. Leaves 2-34 in. broad, membranous, tse green, 
minutely papillose and scaberulous above, angularly 3-lobe sometimes 
to near the base, quite entire or obscurely sinuate-toothed, basal sinus 
acute narrow; terminal lobe longest, triangular ovate or lanceolate, 
acute or acuminate, mucronate, lateral with angular deflexed basal 
lobules ; petiole shorter than the blade. Male fl.: Fascicled, very 
shortly pedicelled. Calyx-tube very short, glabrous. Corolla 1-12th 
in. diameter. Stamens all 2-celled: Female fl.: White, fascicled or 
Solitary with the mules, shortly pedicelled. Ovary minute. Berry 3 in. 
‘ameter, globose, minutely reticulate. Seeds flat, broadly ovate, } in. 
one, 
Lower Guinea. Angola, thickets in Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
. 2. Z. serobiculata, Hochst. in Schimp. Pl. Abyss. ; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. 
1. 287. Monecious. Stem glabrous or with spreading hairs, tips and 
— often tomentose. Leaves ovate-cordate, 2-3 in. long, green, 
asal sinus broad, open, scabrid above, pilose or subtomentose beneath, 
obtuse, apiculate, entire or slightly 3-lobed, acutely coarsely toothed ; 
petiole shorter than the blade. Male fl.: Very numerous, fascicled, 
peduncles 1-2 in, long. Calyx narrow-campanulate, } in. long. Fe- 
male fl.: Fascicled, “Ovary ovoid. Berry globose, 4 in. diameter, 
puooth or pitted on the surface. Seeds 4 in. long, lenticular, border 
faintly thickened.—z, longepedunculata, Hochst. ex Herb. Franqueville. 
Bryonia serobiculata, Hochst. Pl. Schimp. 164 & 927. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, alt. 3000 ft., Mann! A form with more deeply 
lobed leaves, ; 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Dillon! Schimper! Plowden, Schweinfurth! 841 (and 
» 4 more glabrons form). : 
r W elwitsch’s 862, without flower or fruit, may be a perfectly glabrous form of this, 
o Z. lucida (Pilogyne, Naud). 
3. Ze microsperma, Hook. f. Branches very slender, glabrous. 
aves 14-2 in, long, membranous, black when dry, ovate-cordate, ob- 
tuse or subacute, apiculate, basal sinus broad, open, acutely toothed, 
‘caberulous above with minute white dots, glabrous beneath; petioles 
slender, shorter than the blade. Male #l.: Not seen; female appa- 
tently very minute. Fruit solitary or two together, on short filiform 
peduncles, globose, $ in. diameter, surface obscurely reticulate. Seeds 
very minute for the Order, lenticular, hardly yy in. long, faintly 
ordered, 
