388 LXiii. cucuRBiTACE/E. [Trochomeria 



calyx tubulai', at the base including the abortive ovary ; corolla-lobes 5, 

 lanceolate-linear, very acuminate, reflexed at the time of flowering, 

 longer than the calyx-tube ; stamens 3, arising from the middle of the 

 calyx-tube ; anthers straight, oblong-ellipsoidal, vertically approximated 

 at the bare back : connective pi'oduced at the apex, blackish-glandular ; 

 ovary rudimentary, elongate-ovoid, shortly 3-lobed at the apex ; lobes 

 apparently stigmatose. In open dry bushy places among the mountains 

 of the Eastern Queta ; at Carengue ; male fl. 19 Sept. 185(i. Native 

 name " Bumba Riachole." No. 79Zb. A dioecious plant, flowering 

 sometimes without the leaves, at other times with the leaves, remark- 

 ably polymorphous ; rootstock napiform, half subterranean, when 

 fully developed as large as a child's head, in high repute among the 

 negroes as an excellent remedy in the form of a powder in cases of the 

 disease called by them Ribebo, that is, a form of quinsy or carbuncle. 

 On rocky slopes among low bushes at the base of Serra de Alto 

 Queta near the river Luinha, sporadic nearly throughout the district, 

 but become scarce on account of the tubers being eagerly searched for 

 by the negroes ; female fl. April to Aug., fr. Sept. 1856. Native 

 name " Bumbo-Riaxole." No. 793c. In an open stony mountainous 

 place among grasses and low shrubs, near Sange ; very rare, only one 

 specimen seen, female fl. and young fr. April 1856. Called " Bumba 

 Riachole." No. 798. 



This is the plant referred to by Welw. Apont. p. 556 under n. 129, 

 as belonging to a near genus. It occurs also, but not abundantly, in 

 the district of Ambaca and at the Milongo country. 



2. T. macrocarpa Hook, f., I.e., p. 524; Cogii., I.e., p. 398. 

 Var. bracteata Oogn., I.e., p. 399. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — Climbing amid very tall grasses ; leaves bright- 

 green, comparatively fleshy ; male flowers greenish. In rough moun- 

 tainous situations, with tall bushes, near Camilungo ; only one specimen 

 in male fl. seen in April 1856 ; female plant searched for without 

 success, but in June a tuber found which had been got by the negroes 

 at the same locality. No. 794. 



This is the plant mentioned by Hooker, I.e., p. 525, as differing from 

 the type of this species. 



PuNfJO Andongo. — Whole plantbright-green, partly climbing, some- 

 times decumbent : rootstock tuberous ; young fruit greenish or some- 

 what yellowish. In the more open thickets of the fortress of Pungo 

 Andongo, very scarce ; young fr. March 1867. No. 797- 



Var. Welwitschii Cogn., I.e., p. 399; Ficalho, PL Uteis, p. 186 

 (1884). 



Pungo And(jnc;o. — Rootstock perennial, napiform, with drastic 

 qualities, stems very slender, elongated, scandent or decumbent ; leaves 

 bright-green ; flowers yellow-greenish. In rather dry wooded places 

 between the river Lutete and the fortress of Pungo Andongo ; only 

 one specimen seen, with male fl., Oct. 1856. Native name "Bumba 

 Ria Chala." No. 796. 



3. T. poljrmorpha Cogn., I.e., p. 401. 



Ileterosicyos polymorpha Welw. in Trans. Linn. See. xxvii. p. 34 

 (1869); Hook f. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 526. 



HuiLLA. — Seeds in some cases bisulcate on one side and trisulcate on 

 the other. On exposed rocky hills amidst short bushes, near Lopollo, 

 at an elevation of 5000 ft., very sparingly, in company with Iridese and 



