Zehneria.] lxiv. cucurbitace^: (hooker). 561 



8. Z. racemosa, Hook. f. Dioecious, prostrate. Root elongate, 

 woody, perennial. Stems rather strongs angular, smooth or slightly 

 scabrid. Leaves very variable, coriaceous, yellow-green when dry, 

 very shortly petioled, very scnbrid on both surfaces, deltoid or trape- 

 zoid ovate or reniform, with 3-7 very spreading irregular lobes, entire 

 or sharply toothed, acute or acuminate, or angled with broad or narrow 

 ovate-oblong deltoid or linear lobes, which sometimes reach to the base, 

 basal sinus very open ; nerves prominent reticulate beneath ; petioles 

 scabrid, \-\ in. Male fl. : Small, very numerous, interruptedly race- 

 mose on stiff scabrid axillary peduncles J-lJin.; peduncles fascicled 

 or whorled, rigid. Calyx very shortly campanulate, pubescent. Co- 

 rolla I in. diameter. Anthers all 2-celled. Female fl. : Solitary or 

 fascicled, shortly pedicelled. Ovary ovoid, rostrate, hispid. Calyx 

 nearly glabrous inside. Fruit J in. diameter, globose, smooth. Seeds 

 few, broadly ovoid, tumid, white, border not thickened. 



Lower Guinea. Angola, stony hills at Lapolla, &c. in Huilla, Br. Welunfsch! 



Z. Peneyana, Naud.^de Ascherson in Schweinfurth, Flora /Ethiop. 268 (name only). 

 I know nothing of this, and do not find the name elsewhere. 



There is still another undescribed Zehneria from Tropical Africa, found by Mann at 

 3000 feet elevation on Fernando Po ; it has rather small palmately-lobed leaves, pu- 

 bescent beneath, and very numerous fascicled axillary female flowers. 



29. MUKIA, Arn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 829. 



Monoecious. Male fl. : Fascicled. Calyx campanulate, 5-toothed. 

 Corolla rotate, 5-partite, segments acute. Filaments 3, free, short, 

 inserted in the calyx-tube ; anthers oblong, one 1 -celled, two 2-celled, 

 cells linear straight, connective produced at the apex. Rudiment of 

 ovary gland-like. Female il. : Subsessile, solitary or aggregate. Sta- 

 minodes or minute. Ovary ovoid, hispid ; style clavate, inserted in 

 an annular disk ; stigma large, 2-3-lobed ; ovules few on 2 to 3 pla- 

 centas. Berry globose. Seeds few, thick, oblong, compressed with 

 flat scrobiculate surfaces and raised grooved scarcely thickened mar- 

 gins. — An annual scabrid, prostrate or scandent, tropical Old World 

 herb. Leaves oblong-cordate, 3-7-angled, obtuse. Tendrils simple. 

 Flowers small, yellow. 



1. M. scabrella, Arn.; Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. sir. 4, xii. 141. Stem 

 much branched, angled, grooved, and petioles and peduncles hispid and 

 scabrid with small white prickles. Leaves pale green or hoary, rather 

 coriaceous, 1-3 in. long, cordate or oblong or deltoid-cordate, entire or 

 3_7-lobed, obtusely sinuate-soothed, scabrid on both surfaces and hispid 

 below. Male fl. : Peduncles short, fascicled, J in. diameter. Female 

 11 : In different axils, as small. Ovary very hispid. Fruit | in. dia- 

 meter, red or yellowish. Seeds £ in. long, pale yellow. — Wight, Ic 

 t. 501. M. madraspatana, Ascherson in Schweinfurth, Fl. iEthiop. 268 ; 

 Bryonia micrantha, Hochst. Hb. Schimp. Abyss., et B. obtusa, A. Rich. 

 Fl. Abyss, i. 288, 289. 



Upper Guinea. Gambia, Ingram ! Niger river, Barter I 



