564 lxiv. cucurbitacejE (hooker). [Rhynchocarpa. 



smooth. — Climbing- or prostrate, glabrous hairy or scabrid perennial- 

 rooted tropical Asiatic and African herbs. Leaves entire lobed or par- 

 tite. Tendrils simple. Flowers small or minute. Fruit fleshy, small. 



Leaves cordate, pubescent. Fruit long-beaked 1. R.fcetida. 



Leaves di^itately multifid. Fruit ovoid, apieulate 2. R. Bainesii. 



Leaves digitately multifid. Fruit long-beaked 3. R. angolensis. 



1. R. fcetida, Schrad. ; Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xii. 146. 

 Perennial-rooted, softly glandular or scaberulous-pubescent, foetid. 

 Stem stout, hairy. Leaves shortly petioled, broadly ovate-cordate, 1- 

 3 in. long, obtuse, crenate-toothed, sinus and auricles rounded. Male 

 fl. : Minute, in small axillary racemes. Calyx urceolate, hairy, lobes 

 subulate. Corolla short. Anthers smooth, connectives produced into 

 a long* acute appendage. Female fl. : Very shortly peduncled. Sta- 

 minodes subulate. Ovary ovoid ; stigmas 2, recurved. Fruit subsessile, 

 If in. long, subglobose, suddenly contracted into a long beak, red, pubes- 

 cent, 2-celled, about 4-seeded. Seed broadly obovoid, compressed, \ in. 

 long, turgid, black, with a broad thin wing.; — R. fcetidissima, Walp. Rep. 

 ii. 197 ; Bryonia Pcrrottetiana, Seringe in DC. Prod. iii. 304 ; B . fcetidis- 

 sima, Sebum, and Thonn. PI. Guin. ; Melothria fcetida, Lamk. Diet. iv. 

 87 ; Trichosanthcs fatidissima, Jacq. Collect, ii. 341 ; Ic. Rar. t. 624 ; 

 Cyrtoncma convolvulacea, Fenzl, and C. diveryens, Hochst., A. Rich. Fl. 

 Abyss, i. 286; C. fattens, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 2174. 



Upper Guinea. Schumacher. 



Nile Land. Nubia at Kordofan, Kotschy ! Abyssinia, Schimper! 



Lower Guinea. Loanda, Dr. Wdwitsch! 



South Central. Koobie to N. Shaw valley, Chapman and Baines t 



Mozamb. Distr. Lupata, Dr. Kirk! 



Also a native of Western India, the Madras Peninsula, and Natal. 



Anther-appendages sometimes 2-fid. 



2. R. Bainesii, Hooh.f Stem stout, smooth. Leaves 1J in. dia- 

 meter, coriaceous, deeply palmately 3-5-lobed, densely hispidly pubes- 

 cent or scabrid on both surfaces with very closely set short hairs ; 

 lobes linear or broader, irregularly lobed and toothed ; petiole stout, 

 shorter than the blade. Flower's unknown. Fruit \ in. long, 2-3 

 together, sessile, broadly ovoid obtuse apiculate, 6-8-seeded. Seeds 

 gTey, \ in. long, obovoid, rather turgid, surfaces almost flat, truncate, 

 sides thick flat with 2 grooves and 3 keels. 



South Central. Koobie to N. Shaw valley, Chapman and Baines ! 

 A very distinct species, in foliage, fruit, and seed, from any S. African, to several of 

 which it is allied. 



The specimen is wretched, but the pubescence of the leaf affords a good character. 



R. africana, Ascherson in Schweinf. Fl. iEthiop., 268; name only ; unknown to me. 



R. Courbonii, Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. &er. 4, xviii. 197, is probably a Corallocarpus : 

 see C. etbaicus. 



R. Schimperi, Naud. I.e. xvi. 180, Abyssinia, Schimper, No. 413,, may be C. JShren- 

 oergii. 



R. hirtella, Nand, I.e. 181 (Cyrtonema hirtellum, Hochst. in Herb. Schimp. Abys- 

 sinia, 1852, N. 330), is also unknown to me, as is R. pedunculosa, Naud. I.e. 182, 

 Herb. Schimp. Abyss. 1853, No. 1198 : both are probably species of Corallocarpus. 



