484 CUCURBITACEZ (Sond.) [Coniandra. 
base, 1-14 inch long, outer lobe bifid, inner with 6-8, spreading or horizontal, gradu- 
ally shorter lobes. Upper leaves much smaller. Peduncles as in C. digitata, An- 
thers free. Ripe fruit about 4 lines long, scarlet. 
_ 8. C, glauca (Schrader l.c.); leaves petiolate, orbiculate, digitate, 3—5- 
partite ; segments flat, obovate-cuncate, dentate, mucronate or acute ; seg- 
ments of the superior leaves smaller, with lanceolate-cuneate lobes ; 
peduncle of the male flowers elongate, pedicels subumbellate ; calyx- 
lobes with short bristles ; fruit ovate, beaked, 3-4-seeded. Bryonva 
Africana et grossularvefolia, E. Meyer, Zey.! 604, 2476. 
Var. 8. dissecta ; segments evidently dentate or inciso-serrate. C. dissecta, 
Schrad. / E. § 2.11777, excl. syn. Zeyher, 2475. 
Has. Among bushes in distr. Uitenhage near Adow and on Coega and Zwart- 
kopsriver, E. & Z., Drege; Howisonspoort, Hutton; Port Natal, Drege. Feb. 
(Herb. D., Sd.) 
Habit of C. digitata, but generally smaller. Leaves about 1 inch in diameter ; 
lower ones often 3-lobed or half 5-lobed, with shortly toothed lobes ; segments of the 
middle and upper leaves subflabellate, cuneate, dentate or lobed ; segments of the 
uppermost leaves smaller. Peduncles and flowers asin the preceding. Fruit about 
4 lines long. Many of the specimens distributed by Z. ¢ Z. under the name of C. 
Zeyheri, belong to C. glauca. Drege, 8188 seems not to be different from C. glauca. 
4, C. punctulata (Sond.); leaves sessile or shortly petiolate, digitate, 
3-partite; segments pinnatifid or bipinnatifid, lobes oblong or obovate- 
oblong, obtuse, the terminal mucronulate, recurved at the margins, sca-— 
brous, white-punctate above ; peduncles of the male flowers elongate, 
racemose at top ; calyx shortly aristate ; fruit roundish, shortly beaked, 
2—3-seeded. ; 
Var. 8. tenuiloba; leaves short-petiolate ; lobes short, lanceolate or subulate, 
mucronulate. * 
Has. Springbokkeel, Burke, Zey., 603. Var. 8, near Orangeriver and Rhinos- 
oat) distr. Beaufort, Zey./ 602 & 602%; Uitvlugt, Drege, 8189. Jan.—April. 
(Herb. Hk,, Sd.) “ 
Near C. digitata, but the leaves are subsessile, and the segments remotely pinna- 
tifid and narrower. ‘Leaves of var. 8, about 4-} inch in diameter. Racemes 3-5- 
flowered. Fruit 3-4 lines long. pales aaa 
5. 0, Thunbergii (Sond.); glabrous leaves petiolate, scabrous, rent- 
form-cordate, s late or trilobed ; lobes ovate or cuneate-obovate, 
— gab che lateral ones often si d ; peduncles of the 
male flowers elongate, glabrous, racemo nicled ; fruit 3-5- 
seeded, ovate, beaked. — ‘i 
Var. a, all the leaves reniform-cordate, more or less angula the 
_ often 3-lobed. Bryonia triloba, Thunb./ 1. c. 34. Opis ids, crete ee 
1778. Sicyos angulata, Berg./ cap. p. 352. : ? 
Van. 8, all the leaves trilobate or palmate 5-lobed, or the lower ones reniform- 
cordate, subangulate. B. Afri Thunb. ! 1. e. 352, non Linn. B. triloba, Drege, 
exs. Cyrtonema latiloba, /E. & Z., 1781. 
Has. Cape Flats and in mountains near Capetown; var. B Bosjesmansriver, 
Houtbay, Caps Rae Thunb., Drege, E. Zo, Hi arv. Dec.Jan. (Herb. Thunb., 
olm., D., e's ia a 
Stems and petioles glabrous or with scattered hairs. Petioles 3-4 lines long. 
Leaves coriaceous, 4-1 inch long and broad, palmately nerved, Raceme 6-10- 
flowered, pedicels 2-1 line long. Male flower 2 lines, fruit 5-6 lines long, yellow. 
What ZF. & Z. described as a green fruit, is a production of insects. 
