488 CUCURBITACEZ (Sond.) [Mukia. 
ment about 1 inch long, 3-5 lines broad, mucronulate or acute, with several acute 
teeth, rarely trilobed ; the lateral segments 8-10 lines long, bifid, obovate or oblong- 
cuneate ; lobes dentate, rarely entire. Bracts as long as the petiole. Male peduncle 
uncial. Perianth a little smaller than in Z. Garcini, Stamens 3, with cohering, 
straight anthers. Unripe fruit ovate or oblong-ovate, about 4 lines long. 
8. Z. Wyleyana (Sond.) ; moncecious ? quite glabrous ; leaves petio- 
_ late, deeply palmate, 5-partite, smooth ; segments linear-lanceolate, quite 
entire, the lower ones often bifid, the middle longer ; bracts broad-cor- 
date, dentate ; male peduncles 2-3-aggregated, nearly as long as the 
bract. 
Has. Namaqualand, A. Wyley. (Herb. D., Sd.) 
Stem very long, angulate-sulcate. Petiole 3-6 lines long. Tendrils simple, elong- 
ate. Leaves glaucous green ; middle lobe 13-14 inch long, 2 lines wide, lateral ones 
a little shorter. Bracts 6—7 lines long, 8 lines broad, with short, acute teeth, not 
ciliated. Tube of the male perianth 4 lines, lobes 2 lines long. Stamens exactly as 
in Z. Garcini. Female plant unknown. 
9. Z. macrocarpa (Sond.); perennial ; stem and branches angulate, 
glabrous ; leaves palmately-digitate, 5-lobed, scabrous ; lobes lanceolate, 
entire or dentate ; the lower often 2-lobed ; peduncles solitary ; peri- 
anth tubulose with linear-lanceolate, spreading lobes ; ovary glabrous ; 
fruit ovate, acute ; seeds scarcely compressed, ovate, in two rows. 
Has. G: laces among shrubs above Mooyeriver, Burke 2 , Zey./ 579. Dec. 
(Herb. Hk. Su) ng yerl 90, Zey./ 579 
_ Prostrate, about 2 feet long. Tendrils simple, elongate. Petioles 4-6 lines long. 
Lobes of the leaves about 1 inch long, 1-3, rarely 4 lines, broad, acute ; the lower 
ones shorter. Pedicels 3-1 inch. Tube 4 inch, lobes 4-6 lines long; calyx-teeth 
very short. Stamens 3, inserted near the base of the tube. Anthers connate in a 
tube. Fruit 2 inches long, 1 inch broad. Seeds 5 lines long. Drege 8190 seems 
to be the same, but I have not seen the fruit. 
10. Z. debilis (Sond.); perennial ; stem and branches sulcate-an- 
gulate, glabrous ; leaves short, pedicellate, palmate-digitate, 5-lobed, 
ee 
scabrous ; lobes linear-lanceolate, entire or with a few acute teeth ; 
peduncles solitary; perianth tubulose, with lanceolate, spreading lobes ; 
ovary glabrous, acute ; fruit subglobose, apiculate, spuriously 3-locular ; 
seeds ovate, compressed. 
Has. Karro-like places at Uitvlugt near Andr. Burger’s, Dec., and at Rhinoster- 
kop, near Beaufort, April, Burke, 141. Zeyher, 577. (Herb. Hk., Sd.) 
III. MUKIA, Arnott. _ 
Flowers moncecious. Male: Calyx campanulate, 5-dentate. Corolla 
with 5-parted, obtuse limb. Stamens 3, inserted A the base of the 
corolla, free; anthers extrorse linear, straight, cohering, terminated 
_ by a short, conical appendage of the connective, Female: Calyx and 
corolla as in the male flowers, Ovary ovoid, setulose, with 2-3 pla- 
cent. Style short, with a fleshy, annular disc at the base ; fonts 
3, erect. Fruit berried, globose, smooth or echinulate,, few-seeded. 
Seeds oblong-oval, subcompressed, surrounded by a broad or narrow 
