7) 
Lagenaria.) CUCURBITACEZ (Sond.) 489 
zone. Arn. in Hook. Journ. Bot. III. p. 276. Endl. n. 5130. Naudin 
in Ann. Scienc. Nat. 1859. Bot. p. 141. Bryonia spec. Linn. 
Annual, very scabrous, climbing herbs with simple tendrils, and angulate or lobed 
leaves. Flowers small, yellow, the male fascicled, the female solitary or aggregated. 
Fruit greenish, at length red. Name from Murra (-Peri) Rheed. Hort. Malabar ? 
1, M. scabrella (Arn. 1. c.) ; Wight. Ilustr. Ind. Bot. II.t. 105. Bry- 
onia scabrella, Linn. fil. Suppl. 424. W. § Arn. Prod. 345. B.micropoda, — 
E. Meyer in herb. Drege. 
Has. Near Port Natal, Drege. (Herb. Hk., Sd.) 
Stem angulate. Petiole uncial or longer. Leaves cordate, 5-angled or 3-5-lobed, 
middle segment triangular, very shortly toothed, hispid on both sides, as well as the 
stem and petioles, 13-2 inches long and broad. Flowers short-peduncled. Fruit as 
large as a large pea. Seeds rugose, or elevated-punctate, surrounded by a narrow 
zone, exactly as in the Indian specimens. M. leiosperma, Arnott! from an authentic 
specimen in herb. Hooker, is only distinguished from J. scabrella by perfectly smooth 
seeds with a broad tumid zone. 
IV. LAGENARIA, Seringe. 
Flowers moncecious. Calyx campanulate ; segments subulate or broad- 
ish. Corolla (white) petals 5, obovate, springing from within the mar- 
gin of the calyx. Male: Stamens 3 ; anthers subsessile, triadelphous, 
- cells very flexuose. Style scarcely any. Stigmas 3, subsessile, thick, 
2-lobed. Pepo fleshy, indehiscent. Seeds numerous, obovate, com- 
pressed, with a tumid border. Mem. Soc. @hist. Geneve I1I, 2, p. t. DC. 
Prod. 3, 299. Endl. Gen. n. 5136. 
Climbing, annual herbs, softly pubescent. Tendrils 2-cleft ; leaves cordate, nearly 
entire ; flowers solitary or fascicled, axillary ; fruit often very ry pyriform or sub- 
clavate. Name from lagena, a bottle ; form of fruit of some of species. 
: ANALYSIS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN SPECIES. 
Leaves suborbicular, cordate at base, glaucous exe pate ge 
Leaves sagittate, acuminate, scabrous = ee ... (3) sagittata, 
1. L. vulgaris (Ser. 1. c.) ; leaves large, suborbiculate, cordate at the 
base, entire or obsoletely lobed, denticulate, somewhat glaucous, with 
2 glands at the base ; flowers fascicled ; fruit pubescent, at length 
nearly glabrous and very smooth. W. § Arn. Prod. 341. L. idolatrica, 
Ser. 1. c. Naudin. l. c.p. 91. Cucurbita Lagenaria, Linn. 
Has. Spontaneous in the gardens in Caffraria and Tambokiland, EF. ¢ Z. 
Dec.—Jan. 
2? L. sagittata (Harv. mst.); dicecious; stem glabrous, sulcate ; 
tendrils simple ; leaves scabrous, with short, appressed hairs, sagittate, 
lower ones larger, dentate or acutely lobed, upper ones entire ; pedun- 
cles fascicled, 1-flowered ; flowers very small. 
Has. Port Natal, J. Sanderson. (Herb. Hk., D.) 
_ Many filiform stems from a tuberous, woody root-stock, 1-1} foot long. Petiole 
4-6 lines long. ‘Leaves in the female specimen 2 inches long, about 1 inch broad, 
ovate, acuminate, with several lanceolate teeth ; the lanceolate, basal lobes entire 
or bidentate. Leaves of the male specimens exactly sagittate, lanceolate or linear- 
lanceolate, very entire, 1 inch long, 4-3 lines broad. Peduncles 4-1 inch long. Male 
flower about 3 lines long ; calyx campanulate, with short, subulate teeth ; corolla 
5-parted, lobes ovate-lanceolate. Anthers cohering, gyrose, subsessile, shorter than 
the corolla. Female flower a little smaller ; calyx and corolla the same ; ovary ob- 
