Trochomei'ia] lxiii. cucuRBiTACEiE. 389 



three species of Gnidia, also with the next species ; fl. and fr., Nov. and 

 Dec. 1859. No. 804. 



4. T. stenoloba Cogn., I.e., p. 402. 



Ileterosicyos stenoloba Welw., I.e., p, 34, Hook, f., I.e., p. 526. 



HuiLLA. — Corolla wine-yellow. On exposed rocky hills amidst 

 short bushes, near Lopollo, at an elevation of 5000 ft., only a few 

 specimens seen, in company with the last species and with species of 

 Gnidia and Euphorbiacese ; male fl. Nov. and Dec. 1859. No. 805. 



3. PEPONIA Naud. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 823. 



1, P. lagenarioides Hook. f. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 527 ; 

 Cogn. in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. p. 408 (1881). 



HuiLLA. — A prostrate or decumbent annual or biennial herb, with 

 the habit of Lagenaria vulgaris Ser. ; stem angular ; leaves large, 

 reniform, sub-lobed, denticulate, softly flaccid ; petiole without a 

 gland, peduncles very long ; flowers whitish-yellow or white, 

 monoecious ; 1 to H in. long ; stamens triadelplaous ; young fruit 

 oblong-ellipsoidal ; nearly ripe fruit oblong-cylindrical, 2 to 4 in 

 long, 1 to Ih in. in transverse diameter, smooth, slightly ribbed 

 longitudinally, from orange to scarlet outside ; flesh like that of 

 cucumber in smell ; seeds black. On elevated, rough, uncultivated, 

 bushy slopes in Morro de Monino, near Lopollo, at an elevation of 

 about 5400 ft., sparingly ; fl. and young fr. Feb., ripe fr. May 1860. 

 No. 815. An annual climbing herb, with long shoots spreading 

 diffusely in all directions ; leaves large, more or less reniform ; flowers 

 yellow ; fruit cylindric-ellipsoidal, obtuse at both ends, yellowish- 

 scarlet when ripe, non-operculate, 3-celled ; seeds black, enveloped in 

 a hyaUne mucilaginous aril. In exposed wooded places at an elevation 

 of about 5500 ft., in Morro de Lopollo ; seeds, 24 May 1860. Coll. 

 Carp. 45. 



4. ADENOPUS Benth. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 823. 



1. A. breviflorus Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 372 (1849); 

 Hook. f. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 528 ; Cogn. in DC. Monogr. 

 Phan. iii. p. 412 (1881). 



LOANDA. — A more or less glandular- shaggy, apparently annual, herb, 

 with the habit not unlike that of Lagenaria vulgaris Ser., running far 

 in the sea-sands among grasses and Ipomcea carnosa Br. and I. biloba 

 Forsk. ; flowers whitish ; between Penedo and Conceigao, very rare ; 

 fl. beginning of March 1855. A climbing, scentless herb ; leaves 

 bright-green, rather glossy, scabrid, with two opposite conical glands 

 at the insertion of the petiole ; flowers dioecious, white, large ; calyx 

 of the male flowers clavate-tubular, limb short, lobes subulate, uncinate- 

 reflexed ; petals broadly obovate-spathulate, densely hirsute inside on 

 the claw, lamina thickly nerved, crisp on the margin ; stamens tria- 

 delphous, inserted a little below the middle of the calyx-tube ; anthers 

 cohering in a compact cylinder f in. long,imuticous, very long, gyrose- 

 plicate, white ; on the drier hills, among short bushes above the city 

 of Loanda, by the road towards Maianga ; male fl. 21 April 1868. 

 Stem and petioles angular ; leaves rough, rather hard, rigid, deep- 

 green above, pale-green beneath, delicately veiny between the nerves, 

 perfectly 7-lobed or 5-lobed, the basal lobes being more or less 

 confluent ; petiole with two opposite glands at the apex ; the glands 

 ovoid-conical, fleshy, turgid, rather hard, subulate-acuminate, rather 



