550 lxiv. CUCURBITACE2E (hooker). [Dimorphochlamys. 



1. D. Mannii, Hook. f. I.e. Stem slender, angular, very faintly 

 scabrid. Leaves rig-id, 3—5 in. long, 3-nerved at the base, variable in 

 breadth, teeth small, distant, often setose, nerves prominent beneath, 

 much reticulated. Male fl. : Calyx turbinate, 2-winged, the wings 

 reticulate and extending from the base of the pedicel to the back of 

 the lobes, hence pedicel and wings together are obcordate in outline, 

 | in. in diameter ; lobes \ in. long. Corolla 1 in. long, campanulate. 

 Fruit 2 J in. in diameter, crowned with linear calyx-lobes 1 in. long. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Bagroo river, Old Calabar and Ambas bay, Vogell 

 Mann! Rev. W. C. Thomson! 



20. CEPHALANDRA, Schrad. ; Benth. et Hook. f. 

 Gen. Plant, i. 827. 



Flowers usually dioecious. Male fl. : Solitary or subcymose at the 

 apex of a slender peduncle. Calyx short, campanulate or turbinate, 

 5-toothed. Corolla campanulate, shortly acutely 5-lobed. Filaments 

 3, inserted in the bottom of the calyx-tube, connate, rarely free ; 

 anthers connate or cohering, cells conduplicate. Rudiment of ovary 0. 

 Female fl. : Solitary. Staminodes short or long. Ovary ovoid oblong 

 or linear ; style slender ; stigmas 3-lobed or partite ; ovules numerous 

 on 3 placentas. Berry cylindric or oblong, terete. Seeds numerous, 

 ovate, compressed, margined ; testa smooth or rough. — Slender, pros- 

 trate or climbing, glabrous or scabrid herbs ; root (always ?) tuberous. 

 Leaves angled or lobed, sometimes glandular. Tendrils undivided. 

 Flowers white or yellow, large or small. Fruit rather small, very 

 fleshy. 



Male peduncles 1 -flowered. 



Leaves palmately slightly 5-lobed or -angled 1. C. Indica. 



Leaves digitately deeply 5-lobed 2. C. quinqueloba. 



Male peduncles many-flowered. 



Leaves petioled, scabrid or pustulate, 5-lobed, lobes ovate-lan- 

 ceolate 3. C. diversifolia. 



Leaves petioled, very pubescent, 5-7 -lobed, lobes linear . ... 4. C.pubescens. 



Leaves petioled, 2-pinnatifid 5. C. decipiem. 



Leaves sessile or subsessile, pustulate 6. C. Senensis. 



1. C. Indica, Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, v. 16. Stem much 

 branched, angular and grooved, slightly rough with papillae. Leaves 

 2— 4 in. broad, bright green, studded with green papillae, palmately 

 3-5-angled or lobed ; basal sinus deep or shallow j lobes broad, ovate, 

 acute or obtuse and apiculate, more or less sinuate- toothed ; a few 

 circular glands are placed at the base of the leaf between the nerves ; 

 petioles as long as or shorter than the leaves. Male fl. : Peduncles 

 1 -flowered, shorter than the petioles, very slender, jointed below the 

 flower. Calyx broadly obconic ; lobes subulate. Corolla 1 in. long. 

 Fruit oblong or cylindric, bright red marbled with white, J-l^- in. 

 long. — Coecinm indica, Wight 111. ii. t. 105; Hook. Ic. PI. t. 138; 

 A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 290. C. Schimperi, Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 



