540 lxiv. eucuRBiTACEiE (hooker). [Momordica. 



rolla | in. in diameter, yellow ; petals unequal, 2 much larger and very 

 concave. Anther-cells sinuous ; connective 2-fid in the 2-celled an- 

 thers, narrow, glandular at the apex. 



Mozamb. Distr. Near Lupata, Dr. Kirk I with good analysis. 

 Differs from M. Mannii in pilose stems, which are not mottled, 3-lohed leaves, acu- 

 minate or apiculate hairy sepals, and in the anther-cells. 



13. M. multiflora, Hook. f. Monoecious : very pubescent. Stem 

 slender. Leaves membranous/ broadly ovate-cordate, 2J-6 in. long, 

 acuminate, entire, faintly sinuate-toothed, the teeth apiculate, basal sinus 

 rather deep. Tendrils simple or 2-fid. Male fl. : Peduncles solitary or 



feminate, slender, branched, subcymosely many-flowered ; inflorescence 

 ensely pubescent and hairy ; bracts or small at the forks ; buds very 

 small with recurved calyx-lobes, shortly pedicelled. Calyx-tube small, 

 lobes short, ovate, acute. Corolla f in. in diameter, yellow. Anther- 

 cells curved, opening inwards, connective rather narrow, 2-fid at the 

 apex. Immature fruit shortly thickly peduncled, subcylindric, smooth, 

 thick, crowned with the persistent floral envelopes. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Vogel! Gaboon river, Mann! 

 Lower Guinea. Angola, in damp woods, Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch! 

 A very peculiar species, from the smallness of the buds, and nearly straight, appa- 

 rently introrse anther-cells. 



14. M. Cymbalaria, Fenzl, PL Kotschy. No. 147. Monoecious. 

 Root woody, tuberous with stout fibres. Stem slender, scandent, spar- 

 ingly branched. Leaves glabrous or pilose, orbicular-reniform, 1-2 in. 

 broad, rather fleshy, obtusely 5-7-lobed, when dry with raised points 

 on both surfaces, but not scabrid ; lobes very short, acute or obtuse ; 

 petioles variable. Tendrils undivided. Male fl. : Peduncles \-\ in., 

 slender, hairy, ebracteate, racemose at the apex ; pedicels short, spread- 

 ing*. Calyx-lobes lanceolate. Corolla \ in. in diameter, yellow. Fila- 

 ments 2, short, stout, flattened, one 2-partite, the other 3-partite, an- 

 ther-cells flexuous surrounding the divisions of the broad connective. 

 Ovary fusiform, beaked ; style rather stout, stigmas 3, spreading, sub- 

 conical. Fruit 1 in. long, pyriform or broadly fusiform, narrowed into 

 the short stout curved peduncle, fleshy, 8-ribbed, greenish. Seeds 

 very few, almost globose, strophiolate, \ in. long, testa polished, crus- 

 taceous, dark brown. — Luffa tuberosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 717. 



Nile Land. Kurdofan and Sennaar, Kotschy. 



? Mozamb. Distr. Dr. Kirk ! 



A Peninsular Indian plant, of which Wight states the fruit to be eatable. Roxburgh 

 describes the flower as white, and the internal structure of the fruit as fibrous, " like 

 that of echinata, but the flowers appear to be yellow, and the fruit, both in Indian 

 and African specimens is wholly destitute of internal fibres." These errors are uo 

 doubt due to the editing of the 3rd (posthumous) volume of Roxburgh's work. 



15. RAPHANOCARPUS, Hook. f. in Ic.PL, Tab. 1084. 



Flowers monoecious. Male fl. : 2-3 at the apex of the petiole, or the 

 base of the leaf-blade. Calyx-tube small, with 3 incurved scales at 



