566 lxiv. cucuRBiTACEiE (hooker). [Corallocarpus . 



Nile Land. .Rocky mountains of Kordofan, Kotschy ! 



The specimens in Kotschy 's 1837-38 collection have much more scabrid leaves than 

 those of 1839 ; but the fruit and seeds are identical. The Guzerat JEchmandra cono- 

 carpa, Dalz. Bombay Fl. 100, is perhaps the same plant, but has smaller fruit. 



2. C. Gijef, Hooh.f. ; (Rhynchocarpa) Schweinf. Herb. Nub. No. 60. 

 Stem elongate and branches woody, twisted, J in. thick, much branched; 

 bark thick, corky, yellow-white, grooved, smooth. Leaves yellow- 

 green, |— f in. diameter, shortly petioled, very broadly subreniforih- 

 ovate, broader than long-, obscurely 3-lobed, remotely sinuate-toothed, 

 densely papillose on both surfaces with depressed mammillated glands. 

 Tendrils stout, often almost corky, white. Female fl. : Crowded, ses- 

 sile. Ovary sulcate, ovoid, not contracted at the apex; style very 

 stout; stigmas 3, large, villous. Calyx shortly campanulate, with a 

 villous oval ring. Petals very short. Berry ^ in. long, sessile, ovoid, 

 contracted at the apex, hardly beaked. Seeds as in C. Fenzlii, but 

 larger, nearly \ in. long, with a narrower border.— Turia Gijef, Forsk. 

 according to Schweinf. 1. c. 



Nile Land. Between Atbara and the Bed Sea, Schweinfurth ! 



A remarkable species from the stout white woody corky-barked stems and branches, 

 and the curious glandular surface of the leaves, which, and various other parts of the 

 plant, exude a yellow gum-resin . I refer it here chiefly on account of its habit, for the 

 traces of opercular basal dehiscence of the fruit are very obscure. 



3. C. "Welwitschii, Hooh.f. ; (Rhynchocarpa) Naud. in Ann. Sc.Nat. 

 ser. 4, xviii. 198, t. 10. Root fibrous ; base of stem tumid perennial. 

 Branches glabrous, stout and fleshy below, more slender and climbing 

 above, geniculate at the nodes. Leaves ashy-grey, polymorphous, 

 1—4 in. broad, ovate-cordate in the lower part of the plant, more orbi- 

 cular and palmately 3-5-lobed in the upper, lobes obovate-oblong or 

 linear, acute, toothed, more or less scabridly pubescent or hispidly 

 scabrid on both surfaces, sinus obtuse, basal rounded; petiole shorter 

 than the blade, longest in young specimens and then sometimes papil- 

 lose. Tendrils stout. Male fl. : Minute, crowded ; peduncle stout, J- 

 1 in. Calyx urceolate. Corolla 1-16 in. diameter. Stamens short; 

 anthers with short bifid points. Female fl. : Peduncles 1-2, in the 

 same axils as the males, short. Ovary subcylindric, placentas 2 ; style 

 cylindric, stigmas 2. Berry very shortly peduncled, \- f in. long, sub- 

 cylindric-oblong, apex rounded and mammillate. Seeds as in C. Fenzlii. 



Lower Guinea. Elephants' bay, Curror ! sandy thickets in Loanda, Dr. Wel- 

 witsch ! 



4. C. Ehrenbergii, Hook, f; (Rhynchocarpa,) Ascherson in Schweinf. 

 Hb. Nub. No. 61 ; Verh. Zool. Bot. Wien Gesell. 1868, 673. Stem rather 

 slender, shining pubescent with scattered spreading hairs. Leaves 

 gTeen, 1-1 J in. diameter, 3-lobed to about the middle, tomentose on 

 both surfaces, lobes broad, obtuse or acute, obscurely toothed. Male 

 fl. : Minute, clustered on a short pubescent peduncle. ' Female fl. : 

 Solitary or fascicled in the same axils as the males. Fruit sessile, J in. 

 long, ovoid, narrowed into a short slender beak. Seeds small, 1-1 0th in. 



