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Ovary 3-cellecl ; ovules few ; style cylindrical ; stigma fleshy, 

 3-lobed. Fruit a berry '^—Thes. Cap. t. 96, 182, 183. 



Perennial climbers, with simple tendrils and more or less deeply-lobed 

 leaves. Several have a large ciliate or pectinate bract at the base of the 

 peduncle, others want it. — To this new genus are referred the following 

 species of' Flora Capensis' : — Zehneria Garcini (Trockomeria Hooheri^ H.), 

 Z. pectinata, Z. Wyleyana, Z. macrocarpa, Z. dehilU, and Lagenaria ? sa- 

 gittata. The true Zehneria Garcini of Stocks is different from the species 

 so named in ' Flora Capensis.' 



5. LUFFA, Tournef. 



Flowers monoecious, rarely dioecious. Calyx-tube in the 

 male bell-shaped or turbinate, in the female oblong-clavate ; 

 limb 5-toothed. Petals 5, somewhat deciduous. — Male : Sta- 

 mens 3, exserted, 2 bilocular, deeply 2-partecl, the third uni- 

 locular ; anther-cells very flexuous, marginal on a very broad 

 connective. — Female : Stamens abortive. Style 3-cleft ; stig- 

 mas reniform or 2-parted. Grourd at length dry and fibrous 

 within, usually opening by the falling of a terminal lid, some- 

 times indehiscent. Seeds broadly oval, flattened. — Fl, Cap. ii. 

 p. 490. 



CHmbers, with angular stems, branching tendrils, palmate-lobed leaves 

 and large, yellow flowers. Male flower racemose ; female solitary. — 2 Cape 

 species, both Eastern. 



6. LAGENARIA, Ser. 



Flowers monoecious. Calyx bell-shaped ; segments broadish. 

 Corolla (white) 5-parted ; petals obovate, springing from 

 within the calycine rim. — Male : Stamens 3, included ; anthers 

 subsessile ; cells very flexuous. — Female : Style scarcely any ; 

 stigmas 3, subsessile, thick, 2-lobed. Grourd hard, dry, inde- 

 hiscent. Seeds numerous, obovate, compressed, with a tumid 

 border. — Fl. Caf. ii. p. 489. 



Climbing, softly-pubescent annuals. Tendrils 2-fid. Leaves cordate, 

 nearly entire ; flowers axillai-y. Fruit often large, pear-shaped or clavate. 

 — L. vulgaris occurs spontaneously in gardens of Kaffraria. 



7. CEPHALANDRA, Schrad. 



Flowers dioecious. — Male : Calyx short, campanulate, 5- 

 toothed. Corolla bell-shaped, semi-5-fid, veiny. Filaments 

 3, inserted at the mouth of the calyx, free, but the connectives 

 connate, united into a globose, antheriferous head ; anthers 

 distinct, 2 of them 2-celled, the other 1-celled ; cells flexuous. 

 — Female : Calyx and corolla as in the male. Ovary oblong, 

 with 3 placentas ; style with a thick, lobed stigma. Fruit a 

 many-seeded, smooth berry. Seeds compressed, obliquely 

 subattenuated at base. — Fl. Cap. ii. p. 492. 



