534 lxiv. cucurbitaceje (hooker). [Cucumeropsis. 



1. C. Mannii, Naud. I.e. Habit of Cucumis Melo, but less scabrous, 

 with more terete branches, different inflorescence and stamens and 

 smaller flowers. 



Upper Guinea. Cultivated in the Paris Bot. Garden from the Gaboon, Aubry le 

 Comte, and Old Calabar, Mann. 



I know the flowers of this plant only from Naudin's description, and an analysis of 

 the male kindly sent me by MM. Decaisne and Naudin. I have excellent specimens 

 of the foliage from the Paris garden. 



13. CLADOSICYOS, Hook. f. Gen. Nov. 



Flowers monoecious. Male : Subumbellate on a long peduncle. Calyx- 

 tube broadly campanulate, grooved, lobes 5, ovate -subulate. Corolla 

 O-cleft to the base, lobes oblong-, obtuse. Stamens 3, at the mouth of 

 the tube ; filaments ; anthers glabrous, obovate, peltately attached, 

 one 1 -celled, two 2-celled, cells curved on the margin of the broad 

 connective. Rudiment of ovary a broad depressed cushion. Female 

 fl. :. Solitary in the same axil as the male, on a short stout decurved 

 pedicel. Staminodes minute or 0. Ovary clavate, smooth ; style 

 short, stout, without a basal (fcsk ; stigmas 3, obcordate sessile ; ovules 

 numerous, on 3 placentas. Fruit subclavate-cylindric, tapering into 

 the stout curved pedicel. Seeds not seen. — A large coarse pilose or 

 glabrous scandent much branched herb. Leaves large, entire or pal- 

 mately 3-5-angled or lobed, petioles stout. Tendrils very stout, un- 

 divided. Flowers small, yellow-green. Fruit large, edible. 



Genus nearly allied to Cucumeropsis ; differing in the fruit, the grooved calyx, and 

 in wanting the 3 subulate rudimentary organs at the base of the male flower. 



1. C. edulis, Hook./. Stem very stout below; branches grooved 

 and angled, the younger especially pilose with soft spreading hairs. 

 Leaves 3-8 in. broad, deeply cordate at the base, sinus rounded, open 

 or closed, membranous and rather succulent, glabrous or minutely 

 pubescent beneath, some scarcely angled, others 3-5-lobed, lobes 

 usually broadly triangular, rarely long, terminal rather the longest, all 

 apiculate and furnished with short distant subulate teeth; petioles 

 stout, 2-4 in. Male peduncles stout, straight, 1-2 in. ; pedicels short, 

 curved. Flowers J-| in. diameter. Fruit " 1 ft. long, 3 in. diameter," 

 Welw. 



Upper Guinea. Aboh, Barter! 



Lower Guinea. Angola, in thickets at the margins of forests in Sobato Mussengue, 

 and near Camilongo, Dr. Weluritsch ! 



14. MOMORDICA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 825. 



Monoecious or dicecious. Male fl. : Solitary or corymbose or racemose. 

 Calyx-tube very short, campanulate, with 2-3 incurved membranous 

 scales inside ; lobes rounded ovate or lanceolate. Corolla rotate or 

 campanulate, 5-lobed or -partite, lobes obovate, ribbed, 2 often larger 

 than the others. Filaments 3, rarely 2 or 5, free, short, inserted at 

 the mouth of the calyx-tube ; anthers finally free, entire or 2-3-partite 

 or lobed, one 1 -celled, two 2-celled; cells flexuous, rarely straight or 



