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Ovary 3-celled ; ovules few; style cylindrical; stigma fleshy, 
3-lobed. Fruit a berry ?—Thes. Cap. t. 96, 182, 183. 
Perennial climbers, with simple tendrils and more or less deeply-lobed 
leaves. Several have a large ciliate or pectinate bract at the base of the 
peduncle, others want it.—To this new genus are referred the following 
species of ‘ Flora Capensis’ :—Zehneria Garcini (Trochomeria Hookeri, H.), 
Z. pectinata, Z. Wyleyana, Z. macrocarpa, Z. debilis, and Lagenaria? sa- 
gittata. Thetrue Zehneria Garcini of Stocks is different from the species 
so named in ‘ Flora Capensis.’ 
5. LUFFA, Tournef. 
Flowers monecious, rarely diccious. Calyx-tube in the 
male bell-shaped or turbinate, in the female oblong-clavate ; 
limb 5-toothed. Petals 5, somewhat deciduous.—Male: Sta- 
mens 3, exserted, 2 bilocular, deeply 2-parted, the third uni- 
locular; anther-cells very flexuous, marginal on a very broad 
connective—Female: Stamens abortive. Style 3-cleft; stig- 
mas reniform or 2-parted. Gourd at length dry and fibrous 
within, usually opening by the falling of a terminal lid, some- 
times indehiscent. Seeds broadly oval, flattened.—/7. Cap. ii. 
p- 490. 
' Climbers, with angular stems, branching tendrils, palmate-lobed leaves 
and large, yellow flowers. Male flower racemose; female solitary.—2 Cape 
species, both Eastern. 
6. LAGENARIA, Ser. 
Flowers moneecious. Calyx bell-shaped ; segments broadish. 
Corolla (white) 5-parted; petals obovate, springing from 
within the calycine rim.—Male: Stamens 3, included ; anthers 
subsessile ; cells very flexuous.—Female: Style scarcely any ; 
stigmas 3, subsessile, thick, 2-lobed. Gourd hard, dry, inde- 
hiscent. Seeds numerous, obovate, compressed, with a tumid 
border.—F7. Cap. i. p. 489. 
Climbing, softly-pubescent annuals. Tendrils 2-fid. Leaves cordate, 
nearly entire; flowers axillary. Fruit often large, pear-shaped or clavate. 
—L,. vulgaris occurs spontaneously in gardens of Kaffraria. 
7. CHPHALANDRA, Schrad. 
Flowers dicecious.—Male: Calyx short, campanulate, 5- 
toothed. Corolla bell-shaped, semi-5-fid, veiny. Filaments 
3, inserted at the mouth of the calyx, free, but the connectives 
connate, united into a globose, antheriférous head; anthers 
distinct, 2 of them 2-celled, the other 1-celled ; cells flexuous. 
—Female: Calyx and corolla asin the male. Ovary oblong, 
with 3 placentas; style with a thick, lobed stigma. Fruit a 
many-seeded, smooth berry. Seeds compressed, obliquely 
subattenuated at base.—F7. Cap. ii. p. 492. 
