CuCimiis] LXIII. CUCL'RBITACE.t:. 397 



marked with whitish rather broad longitudinal streaks and green and 

 yellow spots, 3-celled ; seeds, 19 June, 1859. Coll. Caki'. 76. 



M(>s.SAMEDES. — An annual much-branched herb, very widely diffuse, 

 prostrate ; flowers yellow : fruit ellipsoidal, as large as a walnut, 

 turning yellow, beset all over with herbaceous prickles and marked 

 above with longitudinal brown-purple bands. In the gravelly beds of 

 dried up streams in the desert between Cabo Negro and A Cazimba, 

 in the region of the sea-coast ; fr. 3 Sept. 1859. No. 828. 



7. C. metuliferus E. Mey. ex Schrad. in Linna'a xii. p. 406 

 (1838); Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat., Ser. 4, xi. p. 10 (1859); Hook, 

 f., I.e., p. 543 ; Cogn., I.e., p. 499. 



Ambriz. — In sandv thickets at the river Quizembo, near Quizembo ; 

 male fl. Nov. 1853. No. 839. 



GoLUNCio Alt( I. — Fruit from yellow-orange to cinnabar-red, echinate 

 with black-green or glaucescent spines. In bushy wooded places at the 

 banks of the river (^)uiapoze, near Sange : fl. and nearly ripe fr. June 

 and Aug. 1850. No. 850. A herb, climbing far and high, with yellow 

 flowers. At the borders of forests in wooded hilly places in Sobato de 

 Mussengue ; fl. May 1856. No. 850i. 



PuN(!<> Andongo. — Scandent in secondary woods by the denser 

 thickets between Candumba and Calundo-Caquette ; young fr. Jan. 

 1857. No. 825. 



8. C. dipsaceus Ehrenb. in Spach, Hist. Nat. Veg. Phan. vi. p. 

 211 (1838) ; Hook, f., I.e., p. 543 ; Cogn., I.e., p. 500' 



LoANDA and Icolo e Bengo. — An annual prostrate herb, with the 

 habit almost of C. Jfein L. ; flowers monoecious ; corolla gamopetalous, 

 campanulate, yellow ; stamens 3 ; anthers sinuous-linear, adnate to the 

 connective on the outer side below its apex - ovary in the male flowers 

 rudimentary, in the female floAvers cylindric-oblong, thinly tomentose. 

 In waste places in the city of Loanda ; fl. and fr. middle of July 1858, 

 wild. In sandy places by the river Bengo, at Foto, etc., Sept. 1857. 

 No. 849. 



Welwitsch states that the plant is frequently cultivated in gardens 

 near the river Bengo : with reference to this statement Ficalho, PI. 

 Uteis, p. 189 (1884). considers that there may have been some con- 

 fusion between this species and wild forms of C. Mcl<> L. : this is the 

 more probable, inasmuch as Welwitsch included under the same No. 

 a specimen from Imbondeiro dos Lobos, in the same district, cultivated 

 26 March 1858, which he called C. Melo L. 



9. C. subsericeus Hook, f., I.e., p. 545; Cogn., I.e., p. 506. 

 PuNGo Andongo. — Seeds surrounded by a thickened border. In 



sandy bushy places at the banks of the river Cuanza, sporadic ; fl. and 

 fr. March 18."»7. Also a weaker specimen in rocky rough places near 

 Sansamanda. No. 838. 



12. COLOCYNTHIS L. Syst. edit. 1 (1735); Tourn. exQuer, Fl. 

 Espan. iv. p. 389 t. 54 (1764). Citrullus Forsk. (1775); Eentli. 

 & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 826. 



1. C. amarissima 8cbrad. Ind. Sem. Hort. Cotting. p. 2 (1833). 

 Ctocurhita Citrvlhfs T.. Sp. PI., edit. 1, p. lOlO (1753). Citrullvs 

 vulgaris Schrad. ex Eckl. & Zeyli. Enum. PI. Afr. Austr. (parsii.) 

 p. 279 (1836) ; Hook. f. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 549 ; Cogn. in 



