Rhynchocarpa.] _ LXIV. CUCURBITACEE (HOOKER). 565 
There are fragments of two more Tropical African Rhynchocarpas in the Herbarium, 
both from South Central Africa, collected by Baines; one, found with R. Bainesii, re- 
sembles RR. dissecta, has no flower or fruit; the other (without exact locality) has 
divided very scabrid leaves with narow segments and recurved margins; the fruit is 
peduncled, 2in long elliptic-ovoid and rostrate; seeds very large, 4 in. long, tumid, 
elliptic-oblong, white, smooth, with rounded, not thickened margius, 
82. CORALLOCARPUS, Welw.; Benth. et Hook. f. 
Gen. Plant. i. 831. 
Flowers minute, moncecious. Male : Crowded at the end of a long 
eduncle, Calyx broadly campanulate, 5-lobed. Corolla 5-partite. 
laments 3, very short, free, inserted in the calyx-tube; anthers entire 
or 2-partite, one l1-celled, two 2-celled, cells straight; connective often 
2-fid, usually dilated or produced at the apex. Rudiment of ovary 0 or 
small. Female f.: Sessile or shortly pedicelled, solitary or fascicled. 
Staminodes 0 or minute. Ovary ovoid, usually beaked; style not 
Seated in a disk, stigmas 2-3; ovules few on 2-3 placentas. Berry 
ovoid, obtuse or beaked, dehiscing transversely near the base. Seeds 
few, obovoid, tumid.—Prostrate scabrid or subtomentose N. W. Indian 
and tropical African herbs. Stems stout. Leaves lobed or palmate, 
thick, coriaceous or fleshy. Tendrils simple. Flowers small, greenish 
yellow. Fruit fleshy, scarlet. 
- A genus with difficulty distinguished from Rhynchocarpa, except by habit and the 
amen dehiscence of the fruit. The leaves are excessively variable in all, fleshy and 
Bee brceorve. Little dependence can be placed on their characters as given 
»W. the form of the fruit depends much on the number of seeds, which is very 
variable ; these latter, however, appear to afford the best specific characters. 
Seed obovoid or pyriform, compressed at the base. 
eaves scabrid. Fruit ovoid, long-beaked . I. & Fenalit. 
Caves papillose. Fruit ovoid, short-beaked . 2, O, Gijef.. 
3. OC. Welwitschit. 
Caves pubescent. Fruit oblong, not beaked. . . . . . 
ed globose or nearly so, not compressed at the base. (Leaves 
tomentose in all.) 
Leaves deeply 3-5-lobed. 
ak of fruit slender. Seed very small, quite even 
: Neee fe Ehrenbergii. 
Fruit not beaked, Seed transversely plicate, rugose . . . - : 
7 
. OC. Schimperi. 
Beak of fruit short. Seed smooth . C. etbaicus. 
F Leaves 5-angled. : 
Fait Hot or hardly boaked. 2). 5. ec ee ee . ©. erostris. 
ea 2. Penzlii, Hook.f. Stem very stout, glabrous. Leaves 3—4 in. 
diameter, orbicular in outline, palmately 3—5-lobed ; lobes large, broad, 
obtuse, apiculate, entire or again lobed, more or less scabrid on beth 
Surfaces, sinus rounded, those between the lobes obtuse or acute. 
“towers not seen. Fruit 3 in. long, nearly sessile, ovoid, narrowed 
;nto a slender beak for $ or 2 its length. Seeds } in. long, dirty grey- 
own, ovoid, turgid, broadly truncate at the compressed base, margins 
rounded, girt with a aitinil slender elevated border; testa uneven, 
slightly ruminate.—Rhynchocarpa corallina, Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ae 
4, xvi, 180. Coniandra corallina, Fenzl in Kotschy, Hb. Nub. No.162. 
