Zehneria.] CUCURBITACEE (Sond.) 485 
6. C, mollis (Sond.) ; leaves petiolate, reniform, crenate-dentate, 
mucronulate, pubescent on both sides; peduncles of the male flowers 
elongated, pubescent, racemose at top; fruit ovate, beaked, 4-6-seeded. 
Cyrtonema molle, Kunze in Linn. Vol. 20, p. 49. 
oo places among shrubs near Uitenhage. March. Zey.! 2480. 
erp. : 
' Stem — long, as thick as a pigeon’s quill, angulate-sulcate, pubescent, when old 
subglabrous. Petiole }-1 inch long, densely pubescent. Leaves 14-2 inches long, 
2-21 inches broad, rarely sublobate, dentate. Male peduncle 2-3 inches long, wi 
6-10, capillary, 2-3 lines long pedicels. Flowers very small, Fruit on a very short 
peduncle, 4-3 inch long, yellow or a little reddish when dry. 
7. C. Zeyheri Ses !) glabrous ; leaves petiolate, palmate, 3~5-par- 
tite ; segments of the lower, obovate-cuneate, shortly 3-lobed; of the 
upper, oblong-cuneate or lanceolate-cuneate, evidently 3-lobed, lobes 
obtuse, mucronulate ; peduncles of the male flowers elongate, racemose ; 
stamens 3-adelphous; fruit short-peduncled, ovate, beaked, 4-6-seeded. 
E. & Z,1775. Cyrton. sphenoloba, Schrad.! E. & Z., 1779. C. digitata 
E. & Z.1 (pars inferior) Zeyher, 2471, 2472, 2473- 2 
Var. . angustiloba ; inferior leaves reniform-3-lobed, upper ones palmately 
3-partite, with lanceolate or sublinear, bifid or trifid segments ; flowers and fruit as 
in var.a. Zey./ 2474, & 592. 
Has. Among bushes in fields near the Zwartkopsriver, and hills near Boshmans. 
river, E. § Z.; var. B, Komandokraal and near er, Zeyher ; = age Tt. 
Williamson. — near Beaufort, Burke § Zeyher. April-Sept. (Herb. 
D., Hk., Sd. 
Quite glabrous or a little pubescent at the base in var. 8. Petiole 3-4 lines long. 
Lower leaves 3-partite, middle segments about 6-10 lines long, 6-8 lines broad, sub- 
3-lobed, lateral segments shortly bilobed, lobes subacute, 3-dentate or entire ; upper 
léaves smaller, often more compound, segments narrower, evidently 3 or 2-lobed. 
Male peduncle 1 inch long, with 4-6, bracteated, 1-2 lines long _ . Flowers 
very small. it about 4 inch long. Var. 8, is perhaps a distinct species. _ 
[19 IL ZEHNERIA, Endl. = 
lose, 5-dentate. Corolla with 5-parted, ver ' spreading limb. Stamens 
3, inserted at the base of the corolla, free, filiform-cylindraceous, termi- 
nated by a subcordate connective, along each margin of which at the 
back are attached the linear, straight, 1-celled, free or cohering anthers. 
Female : Calyx and corolla as in the male flowers. Stigma cap-shaped, 
somewhat trilobed. rust berried, oblong-fusiform, ovate or globose, 
with a subcoriaceous pericarp, pseudo-trilocular or bilocular, few-seeded. 
Seeds compressed. Hndl. Prod. Norfolk, (1833), p. 69. Gen. n. 5127. 
Pilogyne Schrad. in E. § 2. Enum. p. 277: : 
Herbaceous plants with a tuberous rhizome, simple tendrils and lobed leaves. 
Flowers small, white ; the male racemose ; the female umbellate or on simple pedun- 
cles. Fruit globose, as large as a pea, rarely larger. Seeds small, much-compressed, 
obovate. ee sities 
Flowers moneecious or dicecious. Male : Calyx campanulate or rugu- 
ANALYSIS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN SPECIES. 
§ I, Procyne.—Peduncles without bracts. Perianth campanulate. Fr 
2-4-seeded. ha ’ * 
ite glabrous and smooth. Leaves cordate, quite entire ... (5) hederacea. 
Shen glabrous. Leaves scabrous. 
- cordate, acute, dentate... Bs wes aS ... (1) seabra. 
cordate, obtuse, dentate ... Bee ee ven ... (2) cordata. 
