Zehneria.] lxiv. cucurbitace2E (hooker). 559 



Leaves almost glabrous. Seeds lenticular, T Sj- in. long, border 



faintly thickened 3.? Z. microsperma. 



Leaves with white wool beneath 4. Z. velutina. 



Male flowers capitate panicled corymbose or racemose on a 

 long peduncle. 



Leaves very pubescent beneath. Calyx-tube short . . . . 5. Z. scabra ? 



Leaves glabrous. Flowers very minute 6. Z. micrantha. 



Leaves scabrid, deltoid, petiole slender 7. Z. deltoidea. 



Leaves scabrid, much lobed, almost sessile 8. Z. racemosa. 



1. Z. angolensis, Hook. f. Monoecious or dioecious; glabrous. 

 Stems slender. Leaves 2-3J in. broad, membranous, pale green, 

 minutely papillose and scaberulous above, angularly 3-lobed sometimes 

 to near the base, quite entire or obscurely sinuate-toothed, basal sinus 

 acute narrow ; terminal lobe longest, triangular ovate or lanceolate, 

 acute or acuminate, mucronate, lateral with angular deflexed basal 

 lobules ; petiole shorter than the blade. Male fl. : Fascicled, very 

 shortly pedicelled. Calyx-tube very short, glabrous. Corolla 1— 12th 

 in. diameter. Stamens all 2-celled. Female fl. : White, fascicled or 

 solitary with the males, shortly pedicelled. Ovary minute. Berry § in. 

 diameter, globose, minutely reticulate. Seeds flat, broadly ovate, \ in. 

 long. 



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



2. Z. scrobiculata, Hochst. in Schimp. PI. Abyss. ; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. 

 i. 287. Monoecious. Stem glabrous or with spreading hairs, tips and 

 petioles often tomentose. Leaves ovate-cordate, 2-3 in. long, green, 

 basal sinus broad, open, scabrid above, pilose or subtomentose beneath, 

 obtuse, apiculate, entire or slightly 3-lobed, acutely coarsely toothed ; 

 petiole shorter than the blade. Male fl. : Very numerous, fascicled, 

 peduncles J— J in. long. Calyx narrow-campanulate, J in. long. Fe- 

 male fl. : Fascicled. Ovary ovoid. Berry globose, J in. diameter, 

 smooth or pitted on the surface. Seeds £ in. long, lenticular, border 

 faintly thickened. — Z. longepedwiculata, Hochst. ex Herb. Franqueville. 

 Bryonia scrobiculata, Hochst. PI. Schimp. 164 & 927. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, alt. 3000 ft., Mann! A form with more deeply 

 lobed leaves. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Dillon! Schimper ! Plowden, Schweinfurth ! 841 (and 

 838, a more glabrous form\ 



Dr. Welwitsch's 862, without flower or fruit, may be a perfectly glabrous form of this, 

 or Z. lucida (Pi{ogyne, Naud). 



3. Z ? microsperma, Hook. f. Branches very slender, glabrous. 

 Leaves l|-2 in. long, membranous, black when dry, ovate-cordate, ob- 

 tuse or subacute, apiculate, basal sinus broad, open, acutely toothed, 

 scaberulous above with minute white dots, glabrous beneath ; petioles 

 slender, shorter than the blade. Male fl. : Not seen ; female appa- 

 rently very minute. Fruit solitary or two together, on short filiform 

 peduncles, globose, J in. diameter, surface obscurely reticulate. Seeds 

 very minute for the Order, lenticular, hardly ^ in. long, faintly 

 bordered. 



