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TURNERACEAE. 
Wormskioldia serrata, Hochst. 
Kwebe Hills, 3,300 ft., Lugard, 116; Mrs, Lugard, 105. 
An annual, growing to 9 in. high ; flowers orange. 
Wormskioldia longepedunculata, Must. 
Northern Kalahari Desert ; near Inkonane Pits, about 3,000 ft., 
Lugard, 292. 
he plant grows to 6 in, high ; flowers scarlet. 
CucuRBITACEAR, 
Trochomeria debilis, Hook. Joy VES 
Kwebe Hills, 3,300 ft., Lugard, 43, 168: Mrs. Lugard, 39. 
Flowers green. 
Lagenaria vulgaris, Ser, 
In cultivation by Lake River, Lugard, 191. 
te. 
lowers pure whi 
Cucumis Figarei, Del, var. echinophorus, Naud. : 
Kwebe Hills, 3,300 ft., Lugard, 169; Mrs. Lugard, 156. 
A common Kalahari ground-melon ; flowers yellow; fruit 
yellowish-green, 
Kwebe Hills, 3,300 ft., Mrs. Lugard, 154, 
This is the common Kalahari melon. It is eaten by Bushmen, 
i pply to them and also to antelopes ; 
flowers yellow ; fruit mottled with yellow and green. 
Citrullus Naudinianus, Hook, Je 
_ Kwebe Hills, 3,300 ft., Mrs, Lugard, 155, 
One of the Kalahari melon 
Coccinea sp.? § 
Kwebe, Lugard, 
Coccinea sp.? Specimen in fruit only, 
Kwebe, Lugard, 120, 
Coccinea sp. ? 
flowers. 
Kwebe Hills, 3,300 ft., Mrs. Lugard, 149, 
A climber ; flowers pale ochre, with darker vein; fruit at first 
green variegated with whitish, becoming magenta when ripe. 
Toxanthera Lugardae, V. 6 Br. Herba scandens, monoica, sub- 
scabrido-pubescens. Folia peliolata, late 
cordata ; lobi oblongi vel rotundati, 
obtusi. §— Cirrhi simplices. Flores 
pecimen with female flowers only, 
64, 
Specimen with female flowers and fruit, no male 
: 3 stigma reflex 
Fructus 73-8°7 em, longus, fusiformis 
A climbing herb, monoecious, Stem rather slender, minutely 
bescent. Leaves petiolate ; petiole 3_ d 
8; flowers yellow ; fruit straw-coloured. ° 
