Corallocarpus.]} LXIV. CUCURBITACEZ (HOOKER). 567 
long, very turgid, oblong, subglobose, dark brown, minutely rugulose, 
smooth, girt with a slender raised border. 
Nile Land. Massowa, Ehrenberg. Nubian coast at Suakin, Schweinfurth ! : 
. _ Have seen but one small specimen; the seeds are very characteristic, but the foliage 
18 no doubt as polymorphous as in its congeners. 
0. ©. Schimperi, Hook.f. Stem rather stout, angular, grooved, 
scabrous. Leaves ashy grey, 2-4 in. broad, palmately 5-lobed to or 
elow the middle, rather softly pubescent on both surfaces, lobes broad 
rounded crenulate. Petioles stout. Male f.: Minute; peduncles stout, 
pubescent; pedicels very short. Calyx very broadly campanulate. 
Anthers sessile, the two larger with split connectives. Female fi. : Sub- 
Sessile. Ovary elongate-ovoid, densely tomentose; stigmas 3. Berry 
ovoid, $—1 in. long, beaked, tomentose. Seeds grey-brown, obliquely 
subglobose, slightly compressed, } in. long, testa rugose with a slender 
taised border sunk below the surface. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! No. 413 (1853). 
6. C. etbaicus, Hook. J.; (Rhynchocarpa) Ascherson in Hb. Schweinf. 
No.120. Stem stout, angular, scabrid, deeply grooved, geniculate at 
the nodes. Leaves ashy grey, 1-2in. diameter, densely tomentose and 
scabrid on both surfaces, palmately 3-5-lobed, lobes rounded or oblong, 
almost quite entire. Fruit oblong or ovoid, $-$ in. long, beaked or 
apiculate, pubescent. Seeds almost globose, } in. diameter, grey- 
town, faintly granulated, eirt with a raised strong border.—? dch- 
mandra velutina, Dalz. in Bombay Flora, 200. 
Nile Land. Soturba Hills on the Nubian coast, lat. 22° N., Schweinfurth! 
ery similar and perhaps identical with Dalzell’s plant, found in Sind, which has 
male peduncles 3-4 in., but without male fl. I cannot identify it. ‘ ; 
* Strongly suspect that Rhynchocarpa Courbonii, Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 4, 
Xvill. 197, is the same as this. Only the male flower is known; it has the long 
peduncles of Ach. velutina, Dalz., and is a native of Massowah and Musoat, thus uniting 
Seographically the habitats of Sind and Abyssinia. My specimen (cultivated in Jardin 
fo antes from Herb. Gay.) is dicecious, and the leaves are more scabrid than those 
0) « 
- etbaicus or Aichmandra velutina. 
7 ©. erostris, (Ihynchocarpa) Schw. in Verh. Zool. Bot. Wien Gesell. 
1868, 673. Stem sparingly branched, angular, a? sparsely 
hairy, Leaves orbicular, deeply sinuate-cordate, with 5 obtuse or 
rounded obscurely toothed angles, scabrous above, tomentose ashy and 
scabrous below, nerves flattened. Tendrils woody pubescent. Male fi. : 
a’cemes very long, dense-flowered, ebracteate ; pedicels yuberulous, 
bracteolate in the middle. Corolla 5-lobed to the middle, yellow-green, 
three times as long as the calyx. Anthers sessile, cells oblong obtuse, 
Connate by the dilated connective. Female fl.: Racemes short, axil- 
ary, sessile, subfascicled, much smaller than the male. Fruit ti 
yrange-yellow, glomerate, base constricted, apex acute or Sebo y 
aked, 4—6-seeded, resinous when dry. Seeds globose, somewhat 
compressed, yellow or brown, margined, marked with elevated lines. 
Nile Land. Nubian coast, Wady Soturba, 22° N. lat., Schweinfurth, No, 120. 
