Adenc^us] lsiii. cucurbitace^. 391 



March to June, fr. Oct. 1856. The "coloquinta" of the shops. 

 Coll. Carp. 146. 



MosSAMEDES. — In a sandy bushy place at the banks of the river 

 Bero, Mata dos Carpenteiros ; only one plant seen, in young fr. 

 Aug. 1859. No. 811. 



Prince's Island. — In thickets at the skirts of forests near Bahia 

 de Santo Antonio, abundant; sparingly in fl. and fr. Sept. 1853. No. 861. 



5. EUREIANDRA Hook. f. in Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 825. 



1. E. formosa Hook. f. in Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 825, 

 and in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii, p. 533 {Euryandra formosa) ; Cogn., 

 I.e., p. 415. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A rough dioecious herb, climbing on trees to a 

 considerable height, remarkable for its large golden-yellow flowers ; 

 male flowers very large, deep-yellow. Female flowers smaller than 

 the male ; stamens 5, sterile, bearded, free or combined at the extreme 

 base ; ovary cylindrical, many-ovuled ; style proportionately long, 

 trifid ; stigmas thick, papillose, broadly obcordate ; ripe fruit 3 in. 

 long, 1 in. thick, cylindric-fusiform, at first dusky-green and covered 

 with scattered warts, soon turning beautifully scarlet and beset with 

 white persistent warts, many-seeded ; seeds black, almost spherical, 

 pea-shaped. By the taller dense apparently secondary thickets along 

 the base of the mountains of Serra de Alto Queta, sporadic ; fl. March 

 and beginning of Dec. 1855 ; fr. June 1856. No. 807. Leaves thinly 

 coriaceous ; seeds like pepper. Near Ponte de Luiz Simoes, June 

 1856. Coll. Carp. 603. 



PuNGO Andongo.— A slender high-climbing herb, at length hanging 

 down a long distance ; stem and tendrils somewhat reddish ; leaves 

 herbaceous-membranous, very bright green ; flowers large, yellow. 

 At the skirts of the primitive forest between Pungo Andongo and 

 Candumba ; only one specimen, in male fl. April 1857. No. 819- 



6. LAGENARIA Seringe ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 823. 



1. L. vulgaris Seringe in Mem. Soc. Phys. Genev. iii. pars 1, 

 p. 25, t. 2 (1825); Welw. Apont. p. 556, sub n. 129; Hook. f. in 

 Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 529 ; Cogn. in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 

 p. 417 (1881) ; Ficalho PI. Uteis, p. 186 (1884). 



Loanda and Barra do Bengo. — An annual herb, 8 ft. high, pros- 

 trate procumbent or scandent far and widely, viscid-shaggy, strongly 

 musk-scented ; stem flexuous, rather thick ; lobes of the leaves long- 

 cuspidate ; petiole at the insertion of the leaf-blade furnished with 

 two opposite conical green glands ; tendrils almost always bifid, not 

 3 to 4-clef t ; flowers axillary, fasciculate or solitary, monoecious, white 

 or whitish ; fruit pear-shaped, with a long neck, of great economic 

 use to the negroes. In sandy bushy places at the margins of streams 

 near Quicuxe and towards Cacuaco ; fl. and young fr. beginning of 

 Sept. 1858. Male flowers on somewhat longer peduncles than the 

 female. Calyx of the female flowers campanulate, adnate to the 

 ovary, lobes of the limb linear ; corolla white, pervaded by thick green 

 nerves ; lobes of the corolla obovate, entire, crisp-involute on the 

 margin, with long villous hairs especially inside at the base. Immature 

 berry obovoid-pyi-iform, green, glabrous, smooth, 4J in. long, 3 in. 

 in transverse diameter, 10-furrowed, obtusely 10-ribbed, white-fleshy 

 inside, 3 (or sub-6) celled ; flesh not turning bitter ; placentas 

 parietal, 2 in each cell, from the beginning separated by a membrane 



