Rhynchocarpa.] lxiv. cucurbitace.e (hooker). 565 



There are fragments of two more Tropical African Ii hyneltocarpas in the Herbarium, 

 both from South Central Africa, collected by Barnes; one, found with It. Baincsii, re- 

 sembles B. dissecta, has no .flower or fruit; the other (witbout exact locality) has 

 divided very scabrid leaves with narow segments and recurved margins; the fruit is 

 peduncled, f in long elliptic-ovoid and rostrate ; seeds very large, ^ iu. long, tumid, 

 elliptic-oblong, white, smooth, with rounded, not thickened margins. 



32. CORALLOCARPUS, Welw. ; Benth. et Hook. f. 

 Gen. Plant, i. 881. 



Flowers minute, monoecious. Mule : Crowded at the end of a long- 

 peduncle. Calyx broadly campanulate, 5-lobed. Corolla 5-partite. 

 Filaments 3, very short, free, inserted in the calyx-tube ; anthers entire 

 or 2-partite, one 1-celled, two 2-celled, cells straight; connective often 

 2-fid, usually dilated or produced at the apex. Rudiment of ovary or 

 small. Female fl. : Sessile or shortly pedicclled, solitary or fascicled. 

 Staminodes or minute. Ovary ovoid, usually beaked ; style not 

 seated in a disk, stigmas 2-3 ; ovules few on 2-3 placentas. Berry 

 ovoid, obtuse or beaked, dehiscing* transversely near the base. Seeds 

 few, obovoid, tumid. — Prostrate scabrid or subtomentose N. W. Indian 

 and tropical African herbs. Stems stout. Leaves lobed or palmate, 

 thick, coriaceous or fleshy. Tendrils simple. Flowers small, greenish 

 yellow. Fruit fleshy, scarlet. 



A genus with difficulty distinguisbed from Bhjnchorarpa, except by habit and the 

 opercular dehiscence of the fruit. The leaves are excessively variable in all, flesby and 

 difficult to preserve. Little dependence can be placed on their characters as given 

 below. The form of the fruit depends much on the number of seeds, which is very 

 variable ; these latter, however, appear to afford the best specific characters. 



Seed obovoid or pyriform, compressed at the base. 



Leaves scabrid. Fruit ovoid, long-beaked 1. C. Fenzlii. 



Leaves papillose. Fruit ovoid, short-beaked 2. C. Cfijef. 



Leaves pubescent. Fruit oblong, not beaked 3. 6'. Wettcitschii. 



Seed globose or nearly so, not compressed at the base. (Leaves 

 tomentose in all.) 



* Leaves deeply 3-5-lobed. 



Beak of fruit slender. Seed very small, quite even .... 4. (7. Ehrenhergii. 



Fruit not beaked. Seed transversely plicate, rugose .... 5. C. Sclumperi. 



Beak of fruit short. Seed smooth 6. C. etbalcus. 



** Leaves 5-angled. 



Fruit not or hardly beaked l.C. erostris. 



1. C. Fenzlii, Hooh.f. Stem very stout, glabrous. Leaves 3-4 in. 

 diameter, orbicular in outline, palmately 3-5-lobed ; lobes larg-e, broad, 

 obtuse, apiculate, entire or ag-ain lobed, more or less scabrid on both 

 surfaces, sinus rounded, those between the lobes obtuse or acute. 

 Flowers not seen. Fruit f in. long-, nearly sessile, ovoid, narrowed 

 into a slender beak for \ or § its length. Seeds \ in. long-, dirty g-rev- 

 brown, ovoid, turgid, broadly truncate at the compressed base, margins 

 rounded, girt with a smooth slender elevated border; testa uneven, 

 slightly ruminate. — Ithynchocarpa corallina, Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 

 4, xvi. 180. Coniandra corallina, Fenzl in Kotschy, lib. Nub. No. 162. 



