552 lxiv. cucurbitace^: (hooker). \Cephalandra. 



a short peduncle ; pedicels stout, pubescent. Fruit oblong, 1 in. long. 

 — Momordica Adoensis, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 166. Cucur- 

 Uta sp. Schimp. No. 1049 (1853). Cucumis? striatits, A. Rich. Schimp. 

 Hb. Abyss. 330 (1853). 



Not having fruiting specimens of the Cape plant, I refer this doubtfully to it. 



5. C. decipiens, Hook. f. Stem slender, angular, grooved, gla- 

 brous. Leaves membranous, 3 in. in diameter, green, 2-pinnatifid, 

 being cut to the base into 3 narrow spreading segments, that are 

 oblong-lanceolate in outline, deeply irregularly pinnatifid, with spread- 

 ing lobulate acute divisions, upper surface covered with white papillae, 

 hardly scabrid, lower smooth ; petiole 1-1 J in. long. Male fl. : Minute, 

 very numerous on long capillary pedicels 1 in. long, that are racemed 

 on a very short common peduncle. Calyx very short ; lobes recurved. 

 Corolla broadly campanulate, l-10th. in. in diameter. Filaments 

 almost free. Female fl. : Very minute, shortly peduncled. Ovary fusi- 

 form. Fruit solitary or clustered, subsessile, broadly ovoid, rostrate, 1 in. 

 long, " orange-yellow with white spots" (Welwitsch). Seeds immature. 



Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo. Climbing amongst grass, Dr. Weluritsch I 

 A most curious species, with the foliage and fruit so like a Rhynchocarpa that without 

 an analysis of the minute male flower it is difficult to believe it a Cephalandra. 



6. C. Senensis, Klotzsch in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 151. Stem slender ; 

 branches angular, grooved, sparingly clothed with spreading hairs. 

 Leaves dark green, very shortly petioled, membranous, 3-5 in. broad, 

 palmately 3-5-lobed to the middle or above it, minutely papillose and 

 slightly scabrid with short hairs on both surfaces, glands between the 

 veins; lobes broadly oblong, acute or obtuse, mucronate, entire or 

 toothed here and there; petiole hispid, J— J in. long. Male fl. : Pe- 

 duncles rather longer than the petioles, 4— 6-flowered, and short pedicels 

 and calyx hispid or pilose. Calyx-lobes subulate. Female fl. : Pe- 

 duncle longer or shorter than the male. Ovary slender, glabrous. 

 Fruit immature, oblong, subacute at both ends, 1^ in. long-. 



Wlozamb. Distr. Sena, Peters! Lupata, Tette and Shupanga, Dr. Kirk! 



There are two other Tropical African Cephalandras in the herbarium, but too im- 

 perfect to describe ; one is Abyssinian, Schimper's No. 250, of 1853, another from 

 Shupanga and Moramballa {Kirk), resembles C. diversifolia, but the leaves are almost 

 glabrous, neither pustulate nor scabious, the male flowers glabrous, and the fruit 

 obovoid and glabrous. 



21. PHYSEDRA, Hook. £; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 827. 



Dioecious. Flowers solitary, panicled or fascicled. Male : Calyx- 

 tube turbinate or obconic; lobes 5, setaceous, spreading. Corolla 

 cylindric-campanulate, fleshy, 5-lobed to the middle. Filaments 3, free, 

 inserted on the calyx-tube ; anthers broad, thick, obcordate, cells con- 

 duplicate and flexuous. Rudiment of ovary 0. Female fl. : Calyx- 

 tube turbinate above, constricted in the middle, globose at the base, 

 lobes subulate. Staminodes thick, conical. Ovary linear-oblong; 

 style columnar, stigma large, capitate, 3-lobed ; ovules very numerous 



