564 LXIV. CUCURBITACEH (HOOKER). — [Ihynchocarpa. 
smooth.—Climbing or prostrate, glabrous hairy or scabrid perennial- 
rooted tropical Asiatic and African herbs. Leaves entire lobed or par- 
tite. Tendrils simple. Flowers small or minute. Fruit fleshy, small. 
Leaves cordate, pubescent. Fruit long-beaked . . . . . . . 1. &. fetida. 
Leaves digitately multifid. Fruit ovoid, apiculate . . . . . . 2 &. Bainesit. 
Leaves digitately multifid. Fruit long-beaked . . . . . . . 3. BR. angolensis. 
1. R. foetida, Schrad.; Naud. in Ann. Se. Nat. sér. 4, xii. 146. 
Perennial-rooted, softly glandular or scaberulous-pubescent, fcetid. 
Stem stout, hairy. Leaves shortly petioled, broadly ovate-cordate, a6 
3 in. long, obtuse, crenate-toothed, sinus and auricles rounded. Male 
fl.: Minute, in small axillary racemes. Calyx urceolate, hairy, lobes 
subulate. Corolla short. Anthers smooth, connectives produced into 
a long acute appendage. Female fl.: Very shortly peduncled. Sta- 
minodes subulate. Ovary ovoid; stigmas 2, recurved. Fruit subsessile, 
2 in. long, subglobose, suddenly contracted into a long beak, red, ubes- 
cent, 2-celled, about 4-seeded. Seed broadly obovoid, compressed, ¢ ™- 
long, turgid, black, with a broad thin wing.—R. fwtidissima, Walp. Rep. 
ii. 197 ; Bryonia Perrottetiana, Seringe in DC. Prod. iii. 804; B. Setidis- 
sima, Schum. and Thonn. Pl. Guin. ; Melothria fetida, Lamk. Dict. v- 
87; Trichosanthes fetidissina, Jacq. Collect. ii. 341; Ic. Rar. t. oT 
Cyrtonema convolvulacea, Fenzl, and C. divergens, Hochst., A. Rich. #1. 
Abyss. i. 286; C. fwtens, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 2174, 
Upper Guinea. Schumacher. 
Nile Land. Nubia at Kordofan, Kotschy! Abyssinia, Schimper ! 
Lower Guinea. Loanda, Dr. Welwitsch! 
South Central. Koobie to N. Shaw valley, Chapman and Baines! 
Mozamb. Distr. Lupata, Dr. Kirk! 
Also a native of Western India, the Madras Peninsula, and Natal. 
Anther-appendages sometimes 2-fid. 
2. R. Bainesii, Hook. f. Stem stout, smooth. Leaves 1} in. dia- 
meter, coriaceous, deeply palmately 3—5-lobed, densely hispidly pubes- 
cent or scabrid on both surfaces with very closely set short pei 
lobes linear or broader, irregularly lobed and toothed ; petiole stow’, 
shorter than the blade. Flowers unknown. Fruit4 in. long, a, 
together, sessile, broadly ovoid obtuse apiculate, 6—8-seeded. See 
grey, } in. long, obovoid, rather turgid, surfaces almost flat, truncate, 
sides thick flat with 2 grooves and 38 keels. 
South Central. Koobie to N. Shaw valley, Chapman and Baines! 
. . . . M4 f 
A very distinct species, in foliage, fruit, and seed, from any S. African, to several ° 
which it is allied. 
The specimen is wretched, but the pubescence of the leaf affords a good character. 
R. africana, Ascherson in Schweinf. Fl. A.thiop., 268; name only ; unknown to is 
R. Courbonii, Naud. in Ann. Se. Nat. sér. 4, xviii. 197, is probably a Corallocarps 
see (. ethbaicus. ‘site 
R. Schimpert, Naud. |.c. xvi. 180, Abyssinia, Schimper, No. 413, may be C. 
bergii. : 
. hirtella, Naud, |.c. 181 (Cyrtonema hirtellum, Hochst. in Herb. Schimp. . 
sinia, 1852, N. 320), is also unknown to me, as is R. pedunculosa, Naud. at 
Herb. Schimp. Abyss. 1853, No. 1198: both are probably species of Corallocarp™* 
