Adenopus.] LXIV. CUCURBITACE2E (hooker). 529 



lobed; lobes triangular or broadly oblong, acute, coarsely toothed, 

 green and nearly glabrous above, beneath tomentose with appressed 

 dirty white pubescence, basal sinus open ; glands small, depressed. 

 Male peduncles 6-12 in., 3-5-flowered at the apex, stout, nearly gla- 

 brous ; pedicels short, unequal, pubescent or woolly, bracteoles small 

 or 0. Calyx-tube 1 in. long, J in. broad, subclavate, rather ventricose, 

 densely woolly ; lobes ^ in., subulate-lanceolate, apparently eglandular. 

 Corolla 3 in. in diameter. Anther-column cylindric, f in. long. 

 Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper, 1195 (1863-1868) ! 



4. A. eglandulosus, Hook. f. Stem and petioles slightly pubes- 

 cent. Leaves 4-5 in. long, digitately 5-7-lobed to near the base, 

 lobes narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, entire or sinuate-lobed, with scat- 

 tered hairs on the surface above and on the veins beneath. Male 

 fl. : Peduncle stout, 2-3 in., pilose ; pedicels short, pubescent. 

 Calyx-tube \ in. long, cylindric, slightly dilated in the middle ; limb 

 cup-shaped, with 5 remote, very slender, subulate lobes. Corolla 2-3 

 in. in diameter. Anther-head globose ; cells contortuplicate. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone ! 



I have a single poor specimen of this most distinct plant ; it was received from Mr. 

 Morson, the eminent pharmacist, by the late R. Brown, and purchased at a sale of some 

 of the plants of the latter gentleman. 



The leaves in drying turn very dark brown, as with A. longifiorus. I find no trace 

 of glands on the petiole or leaf. 



6. LAGENARIA, Seringe j Benth. et Hook. f. 

 Gen. Plant, i. 823. 



Monoecious or dioecious. Flowers all solitary ; male : Long-petioled. 

 Calyx-tube bell- or funnel-shaped;, lobes 5, spreading. Petals 5, 

 free, obovate or obcordate, mucronate. Filaments 3, free, inserted 

 within the calyx-tube ;• anthers included, cohering; one 1 -celled, 

 two 2-celled ; cells flexuous, connective not produced. Rudiment of 

 ovary 0. Female 11. : Shortly peduncled. Staminodes 0. Ovary ob- 

 long ovoid or cylindric ; style short, stout ; stigmas 3, 2-lobed ; ovules 

 many on 3 placentas. Fruit woody, indehiscent ; flesh corky. Seeds 

 many, compressed, margined, furrowed and ridged longitudinally ; 

 testa smooth. — A pubescent, musky-scented, annual, climbing herb. 

 Leaves broad ; petiole 2-glandular at the apex. Tendrils 2-fid. Flowers 

 large, white. 



1. If. vulgaris, Ser.; DC. Prod. iii. 299. Pubescent, scabrous, 

 tomentose, villous or almost glabrous. Stem stout, climbing. Leaves 

 1-6 in. broad, orbicular-cordate, undivided angular or more or less 

 3-7-lobed, toothed. Flowers 2-5 in. diameter, female smaller. Fruit 

 extremely variable in size and shape. — L. idolatrica, Ser. ? Schimp. PI. 

 Abyss. No. 1571. 



Cultivated throughout tropical and subtropical Africa. 



Dr. Welwitsch remarks that in Angola he finds this plant to be constantly dioecious. 



