Citrullus. | CUCURBITACEZ (Sond.) 493 
Has. Woods in Uitenhage, Albany, and Kaffirland. Feb.-April. (Herb. Th. 
Holm. Hk. D. Sd.) 
Stem angulate. Petiole 2-3 lines long. Leaves papillose-scabrous above, lower 
3~4 inches long and broad, middle lobe about 2 inches long, 1 inch wide, lateral 
ones shorter ; upper leaves gradually smaller, often subsessile. Male peduncles 
solitary, or 2-3 in the axils of the upper leaves, about 1 inch long, terminated by 
one flower or by 3-6 subumbellate, 3-6 line long pedicels. Flowers § inch or a little 
larger. Calyx-teeth subulate. Petals veined, acute. Stamens short. Female pedun- 
cles solitary or geminate, 1 inch long. Ovary oblong, attenuated at both ends. 
Fruit as large as a pigeon’s egg, acute, containing 10-16 obovate seeds. 
2. C, pubescens (Sond.) ; pubescent ; leaves petiolate, scabrous, pal- 
mately 5-lobed, lobes spreading, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, mucronu- 
late, callous-denticulate ; male peduncles elongated, racemose, rarely 
1-flowered. 
Has. On the Magalisriver, Burke, 408, Zeyher, 588. Dec. (Herb. Hk., Sd.) 
Habit of C. quinqueloba. Petioles 4-6 lines long, as well as the stem and pedun- 
cles shortly pubescent. Leaves deeply palmate-partite, in the preceding species only 
to the middle, the lower nearly 3 inches long, 24 inches wide ; the middle lobe 
2 inches long, 6-8 lines broad, lateral lobes evidently shorter ; all the lobes punctate- 
scabrous. Male peduncle 2-3 inches long, from the middle with racemose, 4-6 lines 
long, pubescent pedicels, without bracts. Flower 4 inch, and stamens as in C. quin- 
queloba. Female peduncle 3-4 lines long. Ovary oblong, attenuated at both ends. 
3. C. sessilifolia (Sond.) ; glabrous ; leaves sessile, punctate, scabrous 
at the margins, palmately 5-lobed, lobes spreading, ovate-lanceolate, 
acute, mucronate, coarsely dentate or the middle trifid ; upper leaves 
with lanceolate, acuminate, paucidentate or trifid lobes ; male peduncles 
solitary, 1-flowered or subumbellate. Bryonia ? lagenaria, E. Meyer. 
Has. Near Mooyeriver and Vaalriver on Rhinosterkop, Burke, 289, Zeyher, 580. 
Nieuwe Hantum, 4—5000ft., Drege. Dec.—Feb, (Herb. Hk. Sd.) 
Glaucous-green, much-bran Lower leaves 14-2 inches long and broad, at 
the middle 5-lobed ; middle lobes 8-12 lines long, 8 lines wide, 5-dentate or the lower 
teeth attenuated into 4 lines long, acute lobes ; lateral lobes dentate and shorter. 
Upper leaves 3-fid, or, when §- the lobes often very small, 2-3 lines broad, 
1-14 inch long. Peduncle about uncial. Flowers and stamens as in C. quinqueloba. 
Fruit 2-24 inches long, nearly 1 inch broad, acute, with 16-20 seeds. 
4, C, palmata (Sond.) ; quite smooth and glabrous ; leaves long-pedun- 
culate, palmately 5-lobed, lobes ovate, acuminate, the margins denticulate 
by distant calli; the 2 lower lobes very short ; male peduncles elon- 
gated, racemose ; the female shorter, 1-flowered. Momordica palmata, 
E. Meyer in herb. Drege. 
Has. Near Port Natal, Drege. April. (Herb. Hk. 8d.) 
Tendrils simple, rarely bifid. Petiole 14-2 inches long. Leaves 3-4 inches long 
and broad. The middle lobe about 2 inches long, 1 inch wide, the 2 lateral lobes 
14 inch, the lower much shorter. Male peduncle often as long as the leaf, above 
the middle racemose, pedicels }-1 inch. Calyx and stamens as in C. quingueloba, 
Petals uncial. Fruit ovate, acute, in size and colour agreeing with that of C. quin- 
queloba ; seeds also the same. 
3] VIIL CITRULLUS, Schrad. 
Flowers moncecious. Male : Calyx campanulate, deeply 5-fid. Corolla 
5-partite, flattish. Stamens 3, inserted at the base of the corolla, two 
bilocular, deeply partite, the third unilocular, connectivam without 
terminal appendage. Anther-cells linear, flexuous, Female: Calyx and 
