Rajihanocarjms] Lxiii. cucurbitace^e. 393 



8. RAPHANOCARPUS Hook. f. in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1084 (1871). 



1. R. Welwitschii Hook, f., I.e., and in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 

 p. 541 ; Cogn. in DO. Monogr. Phan. iii. p. 427 (1881). 



MosSAMEDES. — A prostrate, much-branched, monoecious, annual 

 herb ; leaves cordate : flowers of a bright and deep orange colour ; 

 peduncle of the male flowers adnate to the petiole ; ovary slender, 

 elongated, crowned with the calyx-segments. In an exposed sandy 

 place at the banks of the river Bero ; only one plant seen ; fl. July 

 1859. No. 790. 



9. MOMORDICA Tonrn., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 825, 

 1. M. eissoides Planch, ex Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 370 



(1849); Hook. f. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 535; Cogn. in DO. 

 Monogr. Phan. iii. p. 430 (1881). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — An extensively climbing herb, apparently dioecious, 

 with the habit of a Cissus ; leaves deep-green, glossy, rather rigid ; in 

 the male flowers calyx deeply 5-clef t, with green segments and dusky 

 tube ; petals 5, obovate-oblong, very obtuse, milk-white, marked 

 inside at the base with a digitate black-purple spot ; stamens 3 or 

 rather triadelphous, one usually bearing only one anther, the other two 

 bearing two anthers on the bifurcate connective ; pollen bright-orange ; 

 fruit like a small hen's egg in size and shape, very densely echinate 

 with long soft prickles, of an orange or orange-scarlet colour when 

 ripe. By fences and thickets along the base of the mountains of Serra 

 de Alto Queta ; fl. and young fr. 9 Dec. 1855 ; near Ponte de Felix 

 Simoes, fr. Feb. 1855. No. 820. 



2. M. Welwitschii Hook, f., I.e., p. 538; Oogn., I.e., p. 435. 



MosSAMEDES. — In sandy places among short bushes along the 

 banks of the river Bero, by no means abundant ; fl. and young fr. 

 14 June 1860. No. 787. 



3. M. Charantia L. Sp. PI. edit. 1, p. 1009 (1753) ; Schmidt, 

 Beitr. Fl. Cap. Verd. Ins. p. 272 (1852) ; Hook, f., I.e., p. 537 ; 

 Cogn., I.e., p. 436 ; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 188 (1884). 



Var. ^. abbreviata Seringe in DC. Prodr. iii. p. 311 (1828); 

 Cogn., I.e., p. 437. 



LoANDA. — A herb, widely scandent or prostrate, polymorphous in 

 fruit and foliage. In the drier bushy pastures, principally in sandy 

 places, near Penedo and throughout the district, abundant ; fl. and fr. 

 March 1854 and April 1858. No. 785. In sandy pastures at Penedo, 

 in company with Sousa ; seeds, Sept. 1860. Coll. Carp. 44. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A green subglaucous herb, widely diffuse or 

 climbing on low shrubs ; fruit as large as a pigeon's egg, red-orange, 

 pyramidately acuminate, angular, with warted or crested angles ; by 

 thickets in exposed places near Camilungo ; fl. and young fr. Feb. 1856. 

 No. 786. Differing from the common forms by the leaves being hairy 

 along the nerves ; in rocky woody places in Sobato de Quilombo- 

 Quiacatubia, at an altitude of 2400 ft. ; fl. April 1855. No. 786&. 

 A widely climbing herb ; stem furrowed, angular ; leaves grass-green, 

 rough, subglaucous beneath ; in primitive forests at the spring of 

 Quibolo, at the base of Serra de Alto Queta ; without fl. or fr. 

 19 March 1856. Apparently this species. No. 836. 



MosSAMEDES. — An annual or biennial herb, very extensively climb- 

 ing or sometimes prostrate ; flowers pale-yellowish or yellow ; fruit of 



