] lxiv. cucurbitace^: (hooker). 551 



4, xii. 116. C. Moghadd, Ascherson in Schweinf. PL Nub. No. 85. 

 Cucurbita exanthematica, Fenzl, PI. Kotschy. n. 808 ; A. Rich. Fl. 

 Abyss, i. 296. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Dillon! Nubia, Kotschy! Upper Nile, Grant! 

 Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Naudin in Herb. Gay. Confluence of Quorra and 

 Teh ad da, Barter! 



An abundant Indian plant. 



2. C. quinqueloba, Schrad. ; Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, v. 16. 

 Stem angular, grooved, smooth, not papillose. Leaves membranous, 

 3—5 in. broad, bright green, studded with green papillae, digitately 

 5-lobed to near the base, basal sinus usually broad and open ; lobes 

 much waved or lobulate, obscurely toothed, obtuse and apiculate, 

 middle one often much longest ; petiole shorter than the blade ; glands 

 circular between, the base of the nerves. Flowers much as in C. Indica, 

 fruit not seen, " oblong-ovoid" (Kotschy). — JBot. Mag. t. 1820; Bot. 

 Reg. t. 82. Coccinia palmatisecta, Kotschy, PI. Bind. 11. t. 4. 



Nile Land. Binder. Banks of White Nile, Petherick ! Grant ! 



Mozamb. Distr. Rovuma river, Dr. Kirk! (A form with entire leaf lobes; spe- 

 cimen insufficient.) Fruit eatable, Kotschy, I.e. Also a South African species, the 

 specimens of which have usually more sessile, less deeply lobed leaves. 



3. C. diversifolia, Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, v. 18, 1. 1. Monoe- 

 cious or dioecious ; hispidly pubescent. Root stout, fusiform. Stems 

 and branches slender, glabrous, angled, furrowed, pilose. Leaves 

 1J-6 in. broad, rather membranous, eglandular at the base, upper 

 ovate-cordate, acuminate, toothed, lower palmately deeply 3-5-lobed, 

 hispid on both surfaces, especially on the nerves beneath ; lobes 

 ovate-lanceolate, contracted at the base, acuminate, toothed ; sinus 

 rounded ; petioles shorter than the blade, hispid. Male fl. : Peduncles 

 longer than the leaves, pilose, 5-6-flowered at the apex ; pedicels 

 short or long. Calyx hispid ; lobes subulate. Corolla broadly cam- 

 panulate, § in. long and broad. Filaments partially free. Female fl. : 

 Peduncles short. Ovary hairy. Fruit ovoid, red marbled with white 

 or yellowish in lines. — Coccinia Hartmanniana, Schweinf. Reliq. Kotschy. 

 42, t. 27, 28. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 



I think that Schimper's No. 331, of 1853, labelled C. exanthematica, belongs here, 

 the leaves are much larger, and the plant more hairy than in Naudin's cultivated spe- 

 cimens. I have what appears to be a more glabrous form of this plant from Hort. Bot. 

 Petrop , labelled Coccinia Indica, which it certainly is not. C palmata, Sonder, of 



5. Africa, is very closely allied. 



4. C. pubescens, Sond. in Fl. Cap. ii. 493 ? Stem glabrous or 

 pilose with soft spreading hairs, angular and grooved. Leaves 2-3 in. 

 long, rather coriaceous, pale beneath, pubescent with short hairs, 

 scarcely scabrous or hispid on both surfaces, eglandular at the base, 

 deeply digitately 5-7-lobed, lobes narrow, linear-oblong or lanceolate, 

 sharply serrate and often lobed, the middle lobe longest ; sinus obtuse ; 

 petiole shorter than the blade. Male fl. : Rather crowded at the end of 



