536 lxiv. cucuRBiTACEiE (hooker). [Momordica. 



largest, 3-5 in. long, all membranous, ovate-lanceolate, acute at both 

 ends, coarsely sinuate-toothed, teeth aristate, minutely papillose on 

 both surfaces when dry, puberulous above ; stipular bract ? ; tendrils 

 simple. Male fl. : Crowded in the axil of the large (1-2 in. in diameter) 

 orbicular, sessile, toothed bract, shortly pedicelled, densely pubescent. 

 Calyx-teeth ovate-lanceolate, J in. long, apex slender, acuminate. 

 Corolla f-1 in. in diameter, white, with black eye. Female fl. : Soli- 

 tary ; peduncle 2J in. ; bract as in the male. Ovarjr ovoid, covered 

 with soft puberulous spines. Fruit similar to M. ualsamina (Barter), 

 ovoid, narrowed at both ends, densely covered with spreading pu- 

 bescent spines. Seeds numerous, turgid, testa crustaceous, uneven. 



Upper. Guinea. Sierra Leone, Don. Fernando Po, Vogel ! Barter ! Mann ! 

 Niger and Quorra, Vogel! Barter! 



Lower Guinea. Angola, Golungo Alto, in thickets, Dr. Welwitsch! 



3. M. pterocarpa, Hochst. ; Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, v. 24. 

 Monoecious ? Pubescent with spreading hairs. Root a large oblong 

 tuber. Stem slender. Leaves digitately 5-foliolate, green when dry, 

 leaflets ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, obliquely cordate at the base, 

 faintly toothed or quite entire, 2-4 in. long, the central largest and 

 sometimes lobed at the base. Tendrils simple or bifid. Male fl. : 

 Crowded in a short incurved raceme at the end of a peduncle 2—5 in., 

 and subtended by an obovate hooded green entire bract J-f in. long; 

 pedicels as long as the calyx. Calyx £— \ in. long ; lobes ovate, acu- 

 minate with long points, pilose. Corolla about 1 in. diameter, yellow, 

 anther-cells nearly straight. Female fl. : Solitary, ebracteate ; peduncle 

 f in. Ovary slender, 1 in. long, fusiform, tubercled, ending in a long 

 beak. Calyx-lobes longer and narrower than in the male. Fruit 2-3 in. 

 long, ovoid with a long point, with 8-10 short wings, red. Seed 

 nearly orbicular, pale ; testa rugose, thick. 



Nile Land. Adowa in Abyssinia, Schimper! Petit! Cultivated in Hort., Paris. 



4. M. anigosantha, Hook. f. n. t sp. Dioecious. Very sparingly 

 hairy. Stem very slender, leaves digitately 5-foliolate ; leaflets mem- 

 branous, broadly or narrowly ovate-oblong, acute, obtusely serrate- 

 toothed, the teeth apiculate, obliquely truncate or subcordate at the 

 base, minutely papillose when dry. Tendrils very slender, 2-fid. Male 

 fl. : Numerous, irregularly subpaniculate or racemed on very slender 

 ebracteate pedicels 1-2 in. ; pedicels long and slender the lowest some- 

 times minutely bracteolate at the base. Calyx-tube broadly campanu- 

 late, oblique, deflexed, gibbous at the base ; lobes ovate-subulate, 

 spreading, tips filiform, the lower large. Corolla obliquely rotate, 

 yellow, 1| in. "diameter, lobes acuminate. Anther-cells nearly straight, 

 connective narrow ; a small hairy staminode placed between the two 

 (2-celled ?) anthers. Female fl. : Peduncle short with a minute 

 bract towards the base. Ovary fusiform, muricate, beaked. Fruit (from 

 Kirk's drawing) ovoid, beaked, 2 in. long, covered with large triangular 

 compressed prominences, glaucous- greent 



