Zehneria. | LXIV. CUCURBITACEZ (HOOKER). 561 
&, Z. racemosa, Hovk. f. Dicecious, prostrate. Root elongate, 
woody, perennial. Stems rather strong, angular, smooth or slightly 
scabrid. Leaves very variable, coriaceous, yellow-green when dry, 
very shortly petioled, very scabrid on both surfaces, deltoid or trape- 
zor ovate or reniform, with 3-7 very spreading irregular lobes, entire 
or sharply toothed, acute or acuminate, or angled with broad or narrow 
ovate-oblong deltoid or linear lobes, which sometimes reach to the base, 
basal sinus very open; nerves prominent reticulate beneath; petioles 
Scabrid, }-} in. Male fl.: Small, very numerous, interruptedly race- 
mose on stiff scabrid axillary peduncles 4-1}in.; peduncles fascicled 
or whorled, rigid. Calyx very shortly campanulate, pubescent. Co- 
olla 3 in. diameter. Anthers all 2-celled. Female #.: Solitary or 
fascicled, shortly pedicelled. Ovary ovoid, rostrate, hispid. Calyx 
hearly glabrous inside, Fruit 3 in. diameter, globose, smooth. Seeds 
few, broadly ovoid, tumid, white, border not thickened. 
Lower Guinea. Angola, stony hills at Lapolla, &c. in Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
Z. Peneyana, Naud. fide Ascherson in Schweinfurth, Flora Aithiop. 268 (name only). 
‘now nothing of this, and do not find the name elsewhere. 
Chere is still another undescribed Zehneria from Tropical Africa, found by Mann at 
3000 feet elevation on Fernando Po; it has rather small palmately-lobed leaves, pu- 
Scent beneath, and very numerous fascicled axillary female flowers. 
29. MUKIA, Arn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 829. 
Monecious. Male .: Fascicled. Calyx campanulate, 5-toothed. 
~orolla rotate, 5-partite, segments acute. Filaments 3, free, short, 
Mserted in the calyx-tube ; anthers oblong, one 1-celled, two 2-celled, 
cells linear straight, connective produced at the apex. Rudiment of 
Ovary gland-like. Female #.: Subsessile, solitary or aggregate. Sta- 
Minodes 0 or minute. Ovary ovoid, hispid; style clavate, inserted in 
an annular disk ; stigma large, 2-3-lobed; ovules few on 2 to 3 pla- 
fratas. Berry globose. Seeds few, thick, oblong, compressed with 
at scrobiculate surfaces and raised grooved scarcely thickened mar- 
"S—An annual scabrid, prostrate or scandent, tropical Old World 
eth. Leaves oblong-cordate, 3-7-angled, obtuse. Tendrils simple. 
Flowers small, yellow. 
1. M. seabrella, Arn.; Naud. in Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 4, xii141. Stem 
much branched, angled erooved, and petioles and peduncles hispid and 
scabrid with small Salata “prickles. Leaves pale green or houry, rather 
 aceous, 1—3 in. long, cordate or oblong or deltoid-cordate, entire or 
‘-lobed, obtusely sinuate-soothed, scabrid on both surfaces and hispid 
elow. Male fl. : Peduncles short, fascicled, } in. diameter. Female 
“0 different axils, as small. Ovary very hispid. Fruit 4 in. _ 
ry eter, red or yellowish. Seeds Jin. eee pale yellow.— tage 
a - M. madraspatana, Ascherson in Schweinfurth, Fi. “cua get + 
ryonia micrantha, Hochst. Hb. Schimp. Abyss., et B. obtusa, A. Kuch. 
* ADYSS. 1. 288, 289. 
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