Coccinia] LXiii. cucuRBiTACEiE. 401 



2. Coccinia ? sp. n ? 



A scandent herb ; branchlets hispid with spreading hairs ; 

 tendrils bifid, subglabrescent, elongated ; fruiting peduncle thick, 

 glabrate, 3| to 4 in. long ; fruit baccate, cylindrical-ellipsoidal, 

 obtusely pointed at the apex, very nearly 3 in. long, orange- 

 coloured, rather shining, quite smooth ; seeds numerous, com- 

 pressed, obovate, nearly | in. long, i in. broad, margined, 

 obscurely scrobiculate, exalbuminous. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — In thickets near Cambondo, abundantly, but only 

 one fruit seen ; without either leaves or fl. June 1855. No. 837 and 

 Coll. Carp. 615. 



17. CUCTTRBITA L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 828. 



1. C. maxima Duchesne in Lam. Encycl. Meth. ii. p. 151 (1786); 

 Hook, f . in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 555 ; Cogn. in DC. Monogr. 

 Phan. iii. p. 544 (1881); Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 191 (1884). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — Fruit 1| to 2^ ft. long, 1 to 1^ ft. in transverse 

 diameter, variegated with pale-yellow as in the European examples. 

 Frequently cultivated almost throughout tae district both by the 

 negroes and by the colonists for the sake of its edible fruit ; fl. and 

 young fr. end of Feb. 1856. Native name "Dinhangoa." No. 801. 

 Fruit subspherical, variegated yellow and green, outside marked with 

 numerous obtuse ribs almost like a melon, wine-red inside, eaten by 

 the negroes and Portuguese colonists ; flesh somewhat dry but edible 

 and not unpleasant. Frequently cultivated in the district ; seeds, 

 March 1856. Native name " Dinhangoa." Coll. Carp. 145. 



2. C. Pepo L. Sp. PI., edit. 1, p. 1010 (1753) ; Hook. f. in Oliv. 

 Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 556 ; Cogn., I.e., p. 545 ; Ficalho, I.e., p. 192. 



LoANDA. — Frequently cultivated ; seeds, Aug. 1858. Coll. Carp. 609. 



HuiLLA. — Monoecious, prostrate, running out a long distance ; leaves 

 broad, deeply quinquepartite in a palmate manner, the outer lobes bifid, 

 the intermediate ones narrowed towards the base ; fruit as large as 

 a little child's head, bi-pyramidately ellipsoidal, deeply furrowed at the 

 base, coarsely ribbed in the middle ; skin hard, woody, of a pale sulphur 

 colour outside, occasionally beset with small but little-prominent warts, 

 filled inside with a white rather juicy flesh, very good to eat, with 

 scarcely a gourd flavour. Cultivated by some colonists at Lopollo 

 from seeds introduced fresh from Portugal ; fl. and fr. April 1860. 

 No. 812. Delicious when boiled and better in flavour when in addition 

 roasted ; even the leaves are prepared like spinach and eaten ; seeds, 

 June I860. Coll. Carp. 174. Generally and largely cultivated in 

 the district ; well flavoured when cooked and preserved. Portuguese 

 name, "Abobora." Feb. and May 1860. Coll. Carp. 48. 



Coll. Carp. 614 consists of seeds, perhaps of a hybrid form of this 

 species, sent to Welwitsch under the name of "Aboboras pequenas 

 bonitas " from gardens at Oporto in North Portugal, where it is 

 cultivated as an ornamental plant. 



3. C. moschata Duchesne ex Poir. in Diet. Sc. Nat. xi. p. 234 

 (1818) ; Hook, f., I.e., p. 556 ; Cogn., I.e., p. 546. 



LoANDA. — A large, procumbent, monoecious, annual herb, with the 

 habit of C. Pepo L. ; flowers large, yellow, axillary, solitary ; the 

 male flowers with longer peduncles than the female ones ; calyx after 

 flowering circumsciss at the neck ; anthers 1 -celled ; stigmas bipartite,. 



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