€oraUocarpiis] lxiii. cucurbitace^. 405 



In sandy bushy places, climbing on leafless Euphorbias, and on species of 

 Celastrus and Cordia, between Penedo and Cacuaco, and also in Praia da 

 Zamba Grande flowering and fruiting nearly throughout the year, not 

 uncommon. Fl. Jan. to March 1854 ; fr. April to June 1858. A winter 

 form in fruit almost leafless ; abundant near Penedo, June 1858. A 

 variety with the lobes of the leaves elongated and very much narrowed, 

 near the city of Loanda, Oct. 1858. A specimen raised from Loanda 

 seeds in the garden of the Duke of Palmella at Lisbon ; fl. March 1862. 

 No. 799. Climbing far and widely. Rootstock napiform ; stem and 

 leaves glaucous ; fruit baccate, shaped like a grape, operculate, deep 

 scarlet. At Penedo ; seeds Feb. 1854, and again Sept. 1858. Coll. 

 Carp. 1 25 and 612. A perennial herb ; stem bulbous-inflated at the 

 base ; the far-climbing stem and the leaves glaucous ; flowers small, 

 yellowish, rather fleshy, moncecious ; fruit grape-like, circumsciss at 

 the base, opening, many-seeded, bright scarlet. Cultivated in the 

 Lumiar Garden at Lisbon from Loanda seeds ; fr. July 1860. Coll. 

 Carp. 84. 



22. CYCLANTHERA Schrad. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 836. 



1. C. pedata Schrad. Index Sem. Hort. Getting, auno 1831, and 

 in Linnsea viii., Litt.-Ber., p. 23 (1833); Cogn. in DC. Monogr. 

 Phan. iii. p. 825. 



Var. ,8. edulis Cogn., I.e., p. 826. 



Loanda. — Cultivated in the city of Loanda from seeds sent from 

 Portugal ; fr. 1853-4. Coll. Carp. 613. 



23. SICYOS L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 837. 



1. S. australis Endl. Prodr. Fl. Norf. p. 67 (1833) ; Cogn. in 

 DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. p. 875 (1881). 



*S'. angulatus Hook. f. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 568, non L. 



Huilla. — A widely climbing herb ; flowers properly monoecious ; 

 calyx of the male flowers campanulate, herbaceous, 5-toothed ; corolla 

 campanulate, adnate to the calyx, yellowish ; stamens connate ; anthers 

 1-celled, confluent into a head. Female flowers clustered in abbreviated 

 cymes ; ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled. By secondary thickets in hilly, 

 grassy places between Nene and LopoUo, and about the great lake of 

 Ivantalla ; fl. and fr. March 1860. No. 813. 



24. GERRARDANTHUS Harv. ex Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. 

 i. p. 840. Atheranthera Mast, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 519. 



1. G. Trimenii Cogn. in DC, Monogr. Phan. iii, p. 937. 



Atheranthera panicidata Mast., I.e. A. Welwitschii Mast, in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. p. 640, fig. 1-5 (Nov, ? 1871). 



PuNGO Andongo. — A widely scandent herb ; stems woody at the 

 base, compressed, almost flattened, marked with numerous deep 

 furrows ; leaves rather fleshy but membranous, deep-green above, 

 pale-greenish beneath with deeper-green ribs ; flowers dioecious, only 

 the male ones seen, pendulous, green-yeUowish, shining with a waxy 

 gloss ; calyx 5-cleft, green, lobes subequal, much shorter than the 

 corolla ; segments of the corolla 5, alternating with the calyx-lobes, 

 the three outer ones alike, green -yellowish, the two inner ones broader 

 and a little longer than the rest, concave, orange-yellow ; all obtuse, 

 rather fleshy, spreading at the time of flowering ; stamens 6, one 

 imperfect, four perfect ; filaments thick, dilated at the apex into 



