Coniandra. | CUCURBITACEE (Sond.) 483 
4 I. CONIANDRA, Schrad. 
Flowers monoecious or dicecious. Male: Calyx campanulate, 5-fid. 
Corolla with §5-parted, spreading limb. Stamens 5, inserted on the 
throat of the perianth, free or triadelphous ; jilaments short and thick ; 
anthers anterior, linear-oblong, straight, one-celled. Female: Calys 
and corolla as in the male flower. Stigma usually capitate, tri-lobed. 
Fruit berried, beaked, pseudo-trilocular, few-seeded. Seeds obovate. 
Coniandra and Cyrtonema, Scrad. in E. § Z.! Enum. pp. 275,276. Endl. 
Gen. 5124, 5125. 
Herbaceous, climbing plants, with a tuberous root. Tendrils simple. Leaves 
palmate- or digitate-partite, rarely reniform, often scabrid. Flowers very small, 
green, or a little yellowish ; the male racemose, female much shorter, pedunculate, 
itary. Name from xwvos, a cone, and aynp,avdpos a man; the anther bearing 
part of the stamens conniving or conical. 
ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES. 
Flowers moncecious : 
Leaves reniform, crenate-dentate, pubescent ae ... (6) mollis. 
Leaves reniform-cordate and trilobed, glabrous... ... (5) Thunbergii. 
Leaves digitate-partite : 
segments pinnatifid, lobes flat, smooth... vit ... (2) Africana. 
segments pinnatifid, lobes scabrous, with recurved margins (4) punctulata. 
segments bifid or trifid, lobes flat, linear-cuneate ... ... (1) digitata. 
segments bifid or trifid, lobes obovate-cuneate  ... ... (3) glauca. 
Flowers dicecious ... vee wus ER yee ca . (7) Zeyheri. 
1. C. digitata (Sond.); leaves petiolate, orbiculate, digitate-partite ; 
segments linear or linear-cuneate, lateral ones deeply bifid or trifid ; the 
middle trifid or undivided, obtuse, mucronate ; uppermost leaves often 
3-foliate, with linear-cuneate leaflets ; peduncle of the male flowers as 
long as the leaf, racemose or panicled ; calyx-lobes with very short 
bristles ; fruit oval, beaked, 4-6-seeded. Bryonia digitata, Thunb.! Fi. 
Cap.35. Cyrtonema digitata, Schrad.! E.§ Z., 1780,partim. Drege, 8187. 
Has. In fields among bushes near the Zwartkopsriver. — Feb.-March. £. § Z., 
Quite glabrous. Stem sulcate-angulate. Petiole 3-4 lines long. - Segments of 
the larger leaves 14-2 inches , 14-2 lines broad ; of the upper leaves about 
1 inch long, or shorter. aisle vatoncle capillary, with 4-8 short pedicels. Fruit 
yellow, nearly 6 lineslong. a 
2, C. Africana (Sond.) ; leaves petiolate, triangulate, digitate, 5-par- 
tite ; segments pinnatifid, lobes lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, mucron- 
ate, entire or dentate, the terminal longer ; peduncle of the male flowers 
as long as the leaf or longer, racemose at top ; calyx-lobes with long, 
subulate bristles ; fruit roundish, shortly beaked. Bryonia Africana, 
Linn, ! Spec. 1438. B.dissecta, Thunb. ! l.c. 36. B. multifida et pinnati- 
fida, E. Meyer in herb. Drege. Coniand. pinnatisect, Schrad. ! E.& Z.1776. 
B. pinnatifida, Burch. trav. 1. 547. 
Hus. Near Gauritzriver, £. §Z./ Orange and Vaalriver, Zey./ 601. Great Vet- 
river and near Wanderfontyn, Betchld. Zey. / 600, 599 ; Nieuwehantum, 4—5000ft. ; 
‘between Basche and Morley, and near Omsamwubo, 1-2000ft., Drege. Dec.—March. 
On are ay™ se ag 4 lines long. Leaves most] seit 
al e pr . ole 3- ong. Leaves. e, I 
segment 1}-2 Sisotte na, usually with 8-12 po ee 1-2 Ties ‘broad lobes, the 
lower of which 4-8 lines long, the uppermost toothlike ; lateral segments bifid at the 
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