566 LXIV. CUCURBITACEE (HOOKER). — [Corallocarpus. 
Nile Land. Rocky mountains of Kordofan, Kotschy ! ; 
The specimens in Kotschy’s 1837-38 collection have much more scabrid leaves than 
those of 1839; but the fruit and seeds are identical. The Guzerat AEchmandra cono- 
carpa, Dalz. Bombay FI. 100, is perhaps the same plant, but has smaller fruit. 
2. GC. Gijef, Hook. f.; (Rhynchocarpa) Schweinf. Herb. Nub. No. 60. 
Stem elongate and branches woody, twisted, } in. thick, much branched; 
bark thick, corky, yellow-white, grooved, smooth. Leaves yellow- 
green, $3 in. diameter, shortly petioled, very broadly subreniform- 
ovate, broader than long, obscurely 3-lobed, remotely sinuate-toothed, 
densely papillose on both surfaces with depressed mammillated glands. 
‘Tendrils stout, often almost corky, white. Female fl.: Crowded, ses- 
sile. Ovary sulcate, ovoid, not contracted at the apex; style very 
stout; stigmas 3, large, villous. Calyx shortly campanulate, with @ 
villous oval ring. Petals very short. Berry 4 in. long, sessile, ovoid, 
contracted at the apex, hardly beaked. Seeds as in C. Fenzlii, but 
larger, nearly 1 in. long, with a narrower border.—Turia Gye¢, Forsk. 
according to Schweinf. 1. c. 
Nile Land. Between Atbara and the Red Sea, Schweinfurth! 
A remarkable species from the stout white woody corky-barked stems and branches, 
and the curious glandular surface of the leaves, which, and various other parts of a 
plant, exude a yellow gum-resin. I refer it here chiefly on account of its habit, for the 
traces of opercular basal dehiscence of the fruit are very obscure. 
3. C. Welwitschii, Hook.f. ; (Rhynchocarpa) Naud. in Ann. Se.Nat. 
sér. 4, xviii. 198, t. 10. Root fibrous; base of stem tumid perennial. 
Branches glabrous, stout and fleshy below, more slender and climbing 
above, geniculate at the nodes. Leaves ashy-grey, polymorphous, 
1—4 in. broad, ovate-cordate in the lower part of the lant, more orbi- 
cular and palmately 3—5-lobed in the upper, lobes ohovate-oblong or 
linear, acute, toothed, more or less scabridly pubescent or hispidly 
scabrid on both surfaces, sinus obtuse, basal rounded ; petiole shorter 
than the blade, longest in young specimens and then sometimes papli- 
lose. Tendrils stout. Male f.: Minute, crowded ; peduncle stout, $- 
lin. Calyx urceolate. Corolla 1-16 in. diameter. Stamens short; 
anthers with short bifid points. Female fl.: Peduncles 1-2, im the 
same axils as the males, short. Ovary subcylindric, placentas 2; sty: le 
cylindric, stigmas 2. Berry very shortly peduncled, 4—3 in. long, sub- 
cylindric-oblong, apex rounded and mammillate. Seeds as in C. Fenzlit. 
beet ts Guinea. Elephants’ bay, Currér! sandy thickets in Loanda, Dr. Wel 
witsch 
4. C. Ehrenbergii, Hook. f.; (Rhynchocarpa,) Ascherson in Schweinf: 
Hb. Nub. No. 61; Verh. Zool. Bot. Wien Gesell. 1868, 673. Stem rather 
slender, shining pubescent with scattered spreading hairs. Leaves 
green, 1-1} in. diameter, 3-lobed to about the middle, tomentose 
both surfaces, lobes broad, obtuse or acute, obscurely toothed. 
fl.: Minute, clustered on a short pubescent peduncle. Female @.: 
Solitary or fascicled in the same axils as the pe Fruit sessile, $12 
long, ovoid, narrowed into a short slender beak. Seeds small, 1-10th 
