Peponia.] lxiv. cucurbitace^ (hooker). 527 



ference except in the colour of the flower. The species is very closely allied to the 

 South African P. McKennii, Naud., a much larger plant, with sharply toothed leaves, 

 and a shorter funnel-shaped calyx tube. 



•2. P. Cienkowskii, Hook.f. Sparsely hairy with flaccid articulate 

 hairs. Leaves 3 in. broad, reniform or broadly ovate-cordate, 5-7- 

 lobed, lobes broad, obtusely ciliate-toothed ; petioles rather short. 

 Male peduncles shorter than the leaves, stout. Flowers shortly race- 

 mose at the apex of the peduncle ; pedicels ^ in. long-, pilose ; bracts 

 oblong*- linear, the lower leafy, longer than the pedicels. Calyx-tube 

 J in. long, cylindric, slightly dilated below, nearly glabrous, lobes 

 subulate, recurved. Anther-column cylindric, with a very obscure 

 short pencil of hairs at the tip, cells simply conduplicate. — Adenopus? 

 Cienkowskii, Schweinf. Rel. Kotschy. 45, t. xxx. 



Nile Land. Fesoglu, Cienkowski. 

 Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Dr. Kirk! 



My only specimen is in the same state as Schweinfurth's ; that is, with leaves and 

 male buds only. 



3. P. lagenarioides, Hook.f. Stem stout and all parts covered 

 with short lax flaccid hairs. Leaves 4-7 in. broad, herbaceous, young 

 thickly villous, broadly reniform, with a deep broad sinus, obscurely 

 5-lobed, subdigitately 7-12-veined, lobes very rounded, shortly rather 

 sharply toothed; petioles short, stout, 1 in. long. Tendrils 2-fid. 

 Peduncles 1 -flowered. Male 3-4 in. long. Calyx-tube J in. long, 

 between funnel- and bell-shaped ; lobes lanceolate, recurved, acuminate, 

 half as long as the tube. Corolla-lobes about 1 in. long, yellow-white 

 ( Welw.). Fruit shortly peduncled, " sub-cylindric, orange-red, 2J-3 in. 

 long, 1-1 \ in. diameter, smooth, smelling of cucumbers. Seeds black, 

 narrow, obovoid, compressed, smooth, rather contracted at the trun- 

 cate base, not shining nor margined." Welw. 



Lower Guinea. Huilla region, Angola, bushy places, alt. 5400 ft. on the Morro 

 de Topollo, Dr. Welwitsch! A remarkable species, in foliage closely resembling Lage- 

 naria vulgaris at first sight, but the leaves are eglandular, and the structure of the 

 flower and fruit is totally different. 



There is a third species in the Hookerian herbarium from Zanzibar {Cucurbita cucul- 

 lata, Bojer) ; it is very near P. Vogelii, if not a variety, but the leaves are less lobed, 

 and flowers larger. I have seen an imperfect male specimen only. 



5. ADENOPUS, Benth. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 823. 



Dioecious. Male fl. : Racemose. Calyx-tube elongate, sub-cylindric, 

 lobes 5, subulate, recurved. Corolla rotate ; lobes 5, obovate. Fila- 

 ments free, inserted within the calyx-tube j anthers 3, included, co- 

 hering in a cylindric column, cells flexuous and transversely condupli- 

 cate ; connective not produced. Rudiment of ovary short. Female fl. : 

 Solitary. Staminodes 0. Calyx-tube not produced beyond the ovary. 

 Ovary subglobose, style short; stigmas 3, broad; ovules many, on 

 3 placentas. Fruit sphaerical or broadly ovoid. Seeds many, obovate, 

 compressed ; testa smooth, notched at the apex. — Scandent, scabrous 

 pubescent-tomentose herbs or shrubs. Leaves 3-5-lobed, sinuate- 



