568 LXIV. CUCURBITACEE (HOOKER). _ [Corallocarpus. 
I have seen no specimens: the accompanying description is taken from the work 
quoted above. 
Cyrtonema? elegans, Fenzl in Herb. Kotschy, No. 388, from Kordofan, is probably 
another species of Corallocarpus, allied to C. Fenzlii, but more slender, with more 
acute sinuate lobes to the leaf; without ripe fruit it is indeterminable. 
33. TRIANOSPERMA, Mart.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 885. 
Moneecious or dicecious. Flowers solitary racemose or panicled. 
Male: Calyx campanulate, 5-fid. Corolla’ rotate or campanulate, 
5-partite, disk often fleshy. Filaments 3, free; anthers connate, one 
l-celled, two 2-celled, cells flexuous. Rudiment of ovary 3-lobed. 
Female fl. : Staminodes 8. Ovary ovoid, 3-celled; style 3-fid, stigmas 
dilated; ovules 1 or 2 ascending from the base of each cell. Fruit 
corky or fleshy, indehiscent, 3-seeded. Seeds erect, testa hard.—Gla- 
brous, scandent tropical American and one African perennial-rooted 
herbs or shrubs. Leaves 8—5-lobed or -foliolate, the upper often entire, 
often glandular below at the base. Tendrils undivided or 2-or-more- 
partite. Panicles often bearing tendrils. Flowers rather large. 
1. T. africana, Hook. f. Stem climbing, 15-20 ft.; branches 
grooved and angled, very slightly scabrid. Leaves 13-3 in. long, 
deltoid-ovate or broader and palmately 3-lobed, cordate at the base, 
acutely toothed, scabrid on both surfaces. Flowers not seen. Fruit 
axillary, solitary or in pairs, oblong, nearly 1 in. long, obtuse at both 
ends, smooth, green, 2-seeded; peduncle short, curved. Seeds erect, 
oblong, much compressed. 
Upper Guinea. Camaroons mountain, alt. 1000 ft., Mann! Bets: 
A remarkable discovery, being the only Old World species of the genus, which in the 
New World extends from the 8. U. States to the Argentine provinces. 
34. SICYOS, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 837. 
Flowers mone-cious. Male: Racemose or corymbose. Calyx-tube 
shallow; teeth 5, small or 0. Corolla rotate, lobes 5, triangular- 
ovate. Stamens 2-5, filaments confluent; anthers free or connate, 
cells curved, sigmoid or conduplicate. Rudiment of ovary 0. Femate 
fl.: In the same or different axils, crowded at the end of a long oF 
short peduncle, rarely solitary. Staminodes 0. Ovary long or short, 
sometimes beaked, 1-celled, hispid or aculeate ; styles nkork stigmas 9} 
ovule 1, pendulous from the top of the cell. Fruit woody or coriaceot® 
angled or compressed, aculeate or rarely unarmed. Seed filling oe 
cavity of the fruit, testa membranous.—Glabrous or scabrid, climbing 
or prostrate herbs, chiefly tropical American, often littoral. Leaves 
membranous, angled or lobed, but rarely deeply. Tendrils ¥- 
Flowers small or minute. Fruit small. 
1. S. angulatus, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1439. Stems stout, climbing - 
trailing, pilose with spreading hairs, especially at the nodes. Lea¥ 
2-6 in. broad, membranous, palmately 5—7-lobed, cordate at the 
