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concoloribus, petiolo sub apice biglanduloso, fl. masc. petalis 
ovatis fimbriatis prope basin tubi calycini insertis et calyce 
plus duplo brevioribus.—Sierra Leone, Vogel. 
Planta tota glaberrima. Folia ampla, majora semipedalia, 3-5- 
nervia, glandulis petioli majusculis, a limbo distinctis. Cirrhi 
floriferi, cymis in medio cirrho 2-3 alternis breviter peduncu- 
latis laxifloris. Flores quam in precedentibus majores; calyx 
8 lin. longus, tubuloso-campanulatus, ad tertiam partem 5- 
lobus, laciniis ovatis obtusis æstivatione leviter imbricatis; 2 
exteriores margine integerrime, tertia hine integerrima hinc 
inflexa membranacea et leviter fimbriata, 9 interiores ad mar- 
ginem utrumque inflexa et leviter fimbriata. Petala 5, prope 
basin calycis inserta, tubo calycino subbreviora, breviter un- 
Euiculata, margine pectinato-lacera. Corona e filamentis 
brevibus composita ad basin petalorum. Anthere 5, oblonge, 
filamentis brevissimis. Ovarii rudimentum parvum. 
A second specimen from Grand Bassa appears to belong to 
the same species. It is a female, of which the fruit is fallen off, 
which, according to Vogel, was a berry with three parietal 
placentze, 
The only other West Tropical African Passifloree known are 
Modecca diversifolia, Schum. et Thonn., from Guinea, and 
M. lobata, J acq., from Sierra Leone, and the very imperfectly 
described Kolbia elegans, Pal. de Beauv., from Benin. 
LVII. CucuRBITACEX. 
l. Melothria triangularis, Benth.; foliis late deltoideis acutis 
denticulatis membranaceis scabris, floribus longe pedicellatis _ 
in eadem axilla solitariis v. geminis monoicis, corolla glabra 
lobis integris, fructibus globosis glabris—Abdh and Fer- 
nando Po, Vogel. T GRE 
Caules filiformes, glabri v. scabrelli. Cirrhi apice sæpius bifidi. 
Folia exacte triangularia v. basi subangulata, lateribus 14-2 
Poll. longis, 5-nervia, utrinque glabra sed tuberculis crebris 
scabra, denticulis marginalibus irregularibus remotis. P edicelli 
filiformes, ex eadem axilla sepius gemini, alter masculus 945 
