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492 CUCURBITACEZ (Sond.) [ Cephalandra. 
Has. Among shrubs on the Crocodile river, Magalisberg, Burke, 357, Zeyher, 578. 
Dec. (Herb. Hk. Sd.) 6 Evia " ‘ i 
Stem angulate-sulcate. Common petiole }-} inch long. Lower leaves 3-4 inches 
long and broad. Leaflets 4-10 lines long, obtuse at the base. Male peduncle 
2 inches long. Bracts and flower as in M. involucrata. Filaments 3, free, very 
short, with a gland on each side near the apex. Anther cells flexuose, not cohering. 
Female flower not seen. 
4, M. cordifolia (Sond.) ; stem glabrous; leaves long, petiolate, rent- 
form-cordate, acute, dentate, mucronulate, a little scabrous above, with 
short hairs on the nerves and veins beneath ; male peduncle umbellate, 
with a puberous bract at the base of the pedicels ; female peduncle 
1-flowered ; calyx-lobes roundish-obtuse, fimbriate at the margin, 3 times 
shorter than the petals; ovary globose, densely muricate. Cucumis ? 
cordifolius, EH. Meyer. 
Has. Between Omtata and Omsamwubo, Feb., Drege. Port Natal, Dr. Krauss, 47. 
Gerr. & McKen.; 1560. (Herb. Hk. D. Sd.) 
Tendrils simple or bifid. Petiole 2-3 incheslong. Larger leaves 3 inches long and 
broad, a little paler beneath. Male peduncle as long or longer than the leaves. 
Bracteole in our specimens truncate, obtuse, subcuneate, 3-4 lineslong. Pedicels 
3-6, one inch or longer, as well as the calyx-lobes powdery. Calyx-tube glandular, 
muricate. White petals 1 inch long, about 7-8 lines broad. Anthers connate. 
Female peduncles often not shorter than the male. Style filiform with a very thick | 
and lobed stigma. Fruit (nearly half-ripe) as large as a hazlenut, muricate-echinate. 
Momordica latana, Thunb. | fl. cap. 36, is Citrullus vulgaris (amarus Schrad.) 
~t, teat VI. CEPHALANDRA, Schrader. 
Flowers Geecious, Male: Calyx short, campanulate, 5-toothed. Corolla 
5-parted, flattish, the laciniz recurved at the apex. Filaments inserted 
at the base of the corolla, 3, free, but the connective connate, and united 
into a subglobose, antheriferous capitulum. Anthers distinct, flexuous, 
two of which are 2-celled, the third 1-celled. Female ; Calyx and corolla 
as in the male flower. Ovary oblong, with 3 placentas. Style with 
thick, lobed stigmata. Fruit berried, many-seeded, smooth. Seeds com- 
pressed, obliquely subattenuated at the base. H. & Z./ Enum. p. 280. 
Endl. Gen. 5342. 
, herbaceous, perennial ts, with 5-lobed leaves, simple tendrils, golden 
ellowii Saddiectediirys tis. Mila: pdacicle votseanbelinte om SGamS 
or 
the female shorter and 1-flowered. N. from g ; 
the alitiall aetaaiena 4c; a ‘ ame A Repent) & Read, and amp man 
ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES, 
Glabrous : leaves long-petioled, 5-lobed ; lobes ovate, acuminate palmata. 
ae short-petioled, 5-lobed ; lobes ovate or oblong a 
‘ mee Be ee inqueloba. 
Pubescent ; leaves petioled, s-lobed ; lobes obl ae ace 
lanceolate, callous-denticulate = acon = a (2) pubescens. 
Glabrous ; leaves sessile, 5-lobed ; lobes ovate, acute ... ... (3) sessilifolia, 
1. C. quinqueloba (Schrad.! 1. ¢.); diccious, glabrous, glaucescent ; 
ba () t ; glabrous, glaucescent ; 
leaves shortly petiolate, palmately 5-lobed, lobes aaveetste ovate or 
ovate-oblong, obtuse mucronulate, entire or with a few remote teeth ; 
the sinus rounded; male peduncles umbellate, rarely 1-flowered. 
a quinqueloba, Thunb. ! fl. cap. 35. Momordica quinqueloba, E. 
eyer. 
