Corallocarpus?\ lxiv. cucurbitace^e (hooker). 567 



long, very turgid, oblong", subglobose, dark brown, minutely rugulose, 

 smooth, girt with a slender raised border. 



Nile Laud. Massowa, Ehreriberg. Nubian coast at Suakin, Schweinfurth ! 

 I have seen but one small specimen ; the seeds are very characteristic, but the foliage 

 is no doubt as polymorphous as in its congeners. 



5. C. Schimperi, Hook.f. Stem rather stout, angular, g'rooved, 

 scabrous. Leaves ashy grey, 2-4 in. broad, palmately 5-lobed to or 

 below the middle, rather softly pubescent on both surfaces, lobes broad 

 rounded crenulate. Petioles stout. Male fl. : Minute ; peduncles stout, 

 pubescent; pedicels very short. Calyx very broadly campanulate. 

 Anthers sessile, the two larger with split connectives. Female 11. : Sub- 

 sessile. Ovary elongate-ovoid, densely tomentose ; stigmas 3. Berry 

 ovoid, ^— | in. long, beaked, tomentose. Seeds grey-brown, obliquely 

 subglobose, slightly compressed, J in. long, testa rugose with a slender 

 raised border sunk below the surface. 



Nile Land, Abyssinia, Schimper! No. 413 (1853). 



6. C. etbaicus, Hook. f. ; (Rhynchocarpa) Ascherson in Hh. Schwcinf. 

 No. 120. Stem stout, angular, scabrid, deeply grooved, geniculate at 

 the nodes. Leaves ashy grey, 1-2 in. diameter, densely tomentose and 

 scabrid on both surfaces, palmately 3-5-lobed, lobes rounded or oblong, 

 almost quite entire. Fruit oblong or ovoid, |-§ in. long, beaked or 

 apiculate, pubescent. Seeds almost globose, \ in. diameter, grey- 

 brown, faintly granulated, girt with a raised strong border. — 1 sEch- 

 mandra velutina, Dalz. in Bombay Flora, 200. 



Nile Land. Soturba Hills on the Nubian coast, lat. 22° N., Schweinfurth! 



Very similar and perhaps identical with Dalzell's plant, found in Sind, which has 

 male peduncles 3-4 in., but without male fl. I cannot identify it. 



I strongly suspect that Rhynchocarpa Courbonii, Naud. in Ann. £>c. Nat. ser. 4, 

 xviii. 197, is the same as this. Only the male flower is known; it has the long 

 peduncles o^JEch. velutina, Dalz., and is a native of Massowah and Muscat, thus uniting 

 geographically the habitats of Sind and Abyssinia. My specimen (cultivated in Jardin 

 desPlantes from Herb. Gay.) is dioecious, and the leaves are more scabrid than those 

 of C. etbaicus or jEchmandra velutina. 



7. C. erostris, (Rhynchocarpa) Schrv. in Verh. Zool. Bot. Wien Gcscll. 

 1868, 673. Stem sparingly branched, angular, pruinose, sparsely 

 hairy. Leaves orbicular, deeply sinuate-cordate, with 5 obtuse or 

 rounded obscurely toothed angles, scabrous above, tomentose ashy and 

 scabrous below, nerves flattened. Tendrils woody pubescent. Male fl. : 

 Racemes very long, dense-flowered, ebracteate ; pedicels puberulous, 

 bracteolate in the middle. Corolla 5-lobed to the middle, yellow-green, 

 three times as long as the calyx. Anthers sessile, cells oblong obtuse, 

 connate by the dilated connective. Female fl. : Racemes short, axil- 

 lary, sessile, subfascicled, much smaller than the male. Fruit ovoid, 

 orange-yellow, glomerate, base constricted, apex acute or obscurely 

 beaked, 4-6-seeded, resinous when dry. Seeds globose, somewhat 

 compressed, yellow or brown, margined, marked with elevated lines. 



Nile Land. Nubian coast, Wady Soturba, 22° N. lat., Schweinfurth, No. 120. 



