Acharia. | PASSIFLOREZ (Harv.) 801 
striated ; leaves on long petioles, abrupt at base, bluntly 3-lobed, the. 
lobes short, round-topped or emarginate, very entire, glabrous, mem- 
branous, paler, nigro-punctulate and veiny beneath, with two glands at 
the apex of the petiole ; peduncles (of the female flowers) axillary, 
much shorter than the petiole, 1-flowered, those of the fruit elongate 
and cirrhiferous ; calyx rotate, its segments ovate, nigro-punctate ; 
petals narrow-linear, minute, inserted in the sinus between the calyx- 
lobes ; staminodia none; ovary subsessile ; stigmas 3, expanded, fim- 
briate. Passiflorearum species, Drege | No. 5211. 
Has. Omsamculo and Omcomas, Drege.! Natal, Sanderson, 555. Common 
round D’Urban, Gerrard § McKen! (Herb. D., Sd., Hk.) 
A woody climber, rising to the tops of trees. ‘Stems green, striated, vine-like, 
2-3 inches in diameter, resembling green snakes,” (Gerr.). Petioles 2-6 inches long, 
slender ; leaves 1-4 inches long, 14—5"inches wide, the blunt lobes separated by wide, 
rounded sinuses ; sometimes the lateral lobes are obsolete. ‘The Kafirs use a claret- 
coloured, gummy substance obtained from this plant to paint their faces,” Gerrard. 
“* Also used by them as an emetic, Sanderson.” Until the male flowers are known 
the genus of this plant cannot be perfectly determined. If it be a Modecca it will 
perhaps be referred to the subgenus Microblepharis, Arn. 
III. CERATIOSICYOS, Nees. 
Flowers monececious. Mate: Perianth campanulate, 4—5-lobed, sub- 
tended by 4-5, slender, involucral bracts. Stamens inserted in the 
base of the perianth, free, as many as its lobes and alternate with 
them ; filaments dilated upwards ; anthers adnate to a clavate connec- 
tive, the cells slightly separated, introrse. Glands as many as the 
stamens and alternating with them, oblong, fleshy. Femae : Perianth 
as in the male, but destitute of involucre, marcescent. Glands as in 
the male, but smaller, opposite the lobes of the perianth. Ovary stipi- 
tate, unilocular ; ovules numerous, on 4~5 parietal placente. Stigmata 
4-5, subsessile, channelled, bilobed. Capsule siliqueform, 4-5-valved, 
several-seeded ; seeds with a fleshy integument ; embryo in the axis of 
fleshy albumen. Endl. Gen. No. 5106. 
A slender, herbaceous, nearly glabrous climher, with palmately 5—7-lobed, mem- 
branaceous leaves, and axillary, greenish flowers ; the male flowers in racemes, the 
female solitary. The name is compounded of xepatioy, a pod or siliqua, and ovxvos, 
a cucumber ; in reference to the aspect of the fruit. 
C. Ecklonii (Nees. in E. & Z. Enum. No. 1797) ; Harv. in An. Nat. 
Hist. 1st Ser. vol. 3, p. 421, t. 10. Modecca septemloba, E. Meyer.! in 
Herb. Drege. 
Has. In woods of Uitenhage, Albany, and Caffraria, Z. § Z./ Drege! Grahams- 
town, General Bolton! Port Elizabeth, Mrs. Holland/ Port Natal, Gueinzius! 
Gerrard ¢ McKen! (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
Root ial. Stems several feet long, slender, pale, twining round other 
plants. Leaves on long petioles, exstipulate, cordate at base, deeply 3, 5, 7-lobed, 
the lobes acuminate and ly serrate. Flowers of one or both sexes axillary ; the 
males in 3—-6-flowered, pedunculate racemes, on slender, filiform pedicels bracteolate 
at base ; the female generally solitary, on a simple peduncle. Perianth 4-5 lines 
long, greenish, veiny. Glands waxy. Stamens spathulate. Capsule 2-3 inches 
long, 4- 5-angled, 2—4 lines wide, tapering to both extremities, on a long stipes, the 
perianth remaining till the seeds are nearly ripe. 
p-7 IV. ACHARIA, Thunb. 
Flowers moneecious. Mate: Perianth campanulate, 3-4-lobed, sub- 
