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tegerrimis inferioribus seepius bifidis, mediis longioribus, bracteis laté 
cordatis dentatis, pedunculis (¢ ) 2-3 aggregatis, subramosis bracteam 
subequantibus. Sond./ in Harv. § Sond. Fl. Cap. 2, p. 488. 
Has.—Namaqualand, 4. Wyley! (Herb. T. C.D.) 
Derscr.—Stems long and slender, trailing or climbing, 4-sided, 
ribbed, and furrowed. Pefiole much shorter than the leaf. Leaf gla- 
brous, and smooth (when dry), but dotted with much depressed sub- 
convex small wartlike dots, commonly deeply pedatifid; the lobes li- 
near-lanceolate, acute, spreading, the 3 central longest, the lateral con- 
nate nearly to the middle (or bifid). Zendril simple, slender. Bracts 
broadly cordate or ovate, shortly but sharply sinuate-toothed. Male 
flowers in very short, 3-4-flowered, imperfect racemes, the axis being 
very short ; or 3-4 pedicels fascicled from the axle of the solitary bract. 
Zube of perianth 4 lines, lobes about 2 lines long. 
A graceful little plant, nearly allied to Z Garcini (Tab. XCVI.), but 
with much more deeply divided leaves, perfectly entire margins to the 
leaf lobes, and toothed, not ciliate bracts. Itis one of a number of inte- 
resting new species communicated to me by Mr. A. Wyley, and col- 
lected by him during his survey of Little Namaqualand. 
Fig 1, part of a branch, with leaves and flowers; the natural size. Fig. 2, the 
perianth ; 3, stamens from the same; magnified. 
183. LAGENARIA SAGITTATA, Harv. ( Cucurbitacea.) 
L. sagittata; dioica, caule glabro sulcato, cirrhis simplicibus, foliis 
pilis minimis adpressis rigidis scabris sagittatis, lobis acuminatis omni- 
bus elongatis nunc integerrimis nune utrinque argute unidentatis v. lo- 
bulatis, pedicellis subfasciculatis, floribus perparvis. Sond.!/ in Ft. Cap., 
vol. 2, p. 489, 
Hab.—Various localities at Natal. J. Sanderson! 1,687, 707,730. W. T. Gerrard 
(inlitt.). (Herb. T. C. D.) 
Descr.—ootstock thick and rugged, sending out many slender an- 
nual stems. Stems 2 feet long or more, ‘‘ either trailing on the ground, 
or climbing by its tendrils up the culms of grasses, &c.” (W. 7. G.), 
glabrous, sharply angled, furrowed. Leaves (on slender petioles shorter 
than the lamina), deeply sagittate, but rather variable in the propor- 
tionate length and breadth of the lobes: sometimes basal and medial 
lobes are all linear-lanceolate, entire, and the basal divergent ; sometimes 
the body of the leaf is broad, the lobes shorter, and either unidentate 
or shortly lobed; sometimes it is the medial, sometimes the basal that 
are toothed or lobed; alwaysthe lobes are very acute. Pedicels 2-3 to- 
gether, rather longer than the petiole. Male perianth 5-7-fid, with 
alternating external, tooth-like lobules, turbinate. Anthers 3, twisted. 
Female perianth, similar to the male, but with a longer tube; ovary 
ovoid, tapering much at the apex. Frurt not seen (by me). 
