394 LXiii. cucuRBiTACE^. [Mo7nordica 



a brilliant orange colour, always softly echinate ; very abundant at 

 the sandy banks of the river Giraul and rarer by the river Bero ; 

 fl. and fr. July 1859. More abundant than M. Wclwitschii Hook. f. 

 No. 788. 



Cape de Verde Islands. — In sandy maritime places near Villa da 

 Praya in the island of Santiago ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1861. No. 789. 



4. M. Balsamina L. Sp. PI., edit. 1, p. 1009 (1753) ; Hook, f., I.e., 

 in Oliv. p. 537 ; Cogn., I.e., p. 439. 



Benguella. — Cultivated from Portuguese seeds, June 1860. Portu- 

 guese name " Balsamina conica da pequena." Seeds. Coll. Carp. 604. 



5. M. multiilora Hook, f., I.e., p. 540 ; Cogn., I.e., p. 449. 

 GoLUNGO Alto. — A high-climbing deep-green herb, apparently 



monoecious. In moist forests at the river Moio (Muio) in Sobato de 

 Quilombo-Quiacatubia, rare ; in unopened fl. and young fr. July 

 1856. On Musondo {Pseudo^pondias microcarpa Engl.). No. 843. 



6. M. Schimperiana Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, p. 23 

 (1866) ; Cogn., I.e., p. 453. 



M. eueullata Hook. f. in Oliv, Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 538. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — An annual, bright-green, monoecious herb, ex- 

 tensively and intricately climbing on shrubs, but to no great height ; 

 sometimes spreading over the ground ; runners very long, intricate ; 

 petiole winged-channelled, broad, decurrent on the acutely angular 

 stem ; involucre of the male flowers boat-shaped ; flowers white or on 

 weak individuals almost of a citron-sulphur colour, coloured at the 

 bottom with velvety-purple spots ; calyx hispid, black ; petals obovate- 

 oblong, some a little narrower than the rest, at the time of flowering 

 spreading in a campanulate form, from whitish to very pale sulphur- 

 colour or almost milk-white, the three opposite to the triadelphous 

 stamens marked inside at the base with a black varnished-glossy spot, 

 all moreover yellow at the base inside ; stamens 5, triadelphous ; 

 fruit oblong, as large as a hen's or goose's egg, deep-yellowish, clothed 

 with long soft bristles of the same colour or brilliantly scarlet turning 

 to orange-vermilion. By thickets in hilly situations among the 

 mountains of Alto Queta, not uncommon, fl. and young fr. March 1856 ; 

 along the base of the mountains of Queta, male fl. beginning of 

 Dec. 1855. No. 809. Flowers sulphur-yellow, atropurpureous at the 

 bottom ; berry as large as a goose's egg, 3-valved, densely beset with 

 long soft cinnabar-orange prickles. Near Sange, Jan. 1856 ; seeds. 

 Doubtfully identified. Coll. Carp. 151. 



10. LUFFA Toiirn., L., Adans. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 823. 



1. L. aegyptiaca Mill. Card. Diet. edit. 8 (1768); Hook. f. in 

 Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 530 ; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 187 (1884). 



L. cylindrica Roem. Syn. fasc. 2, p. 63 (1846); Cogn. in DC, 

 Monogr. Phan. iii. p. 456 (1881). 



Cazkngo. — A handsome herb, climbing high on shrubs ; fruit 

 cylindrical when young and quite green. In moist wooded situations 

 with tall bushes near Palmira, very sparingly ; fl. and young fr. 

 Dec. 1854. No. 818. 



Golungo Alto. — Flowers said to be monoecious, but the individual 

 plants seen by Welwitsch were usually wholly female. Stems 

 acutely angular ; peduncles of the male flowers sulcate-angular, 8 in. 



