400 LXIII. CUCURBITACE^. 



Sobato de Bumba, not uncommon ; male and female fl. middle of 

 Oct. 1855 ; fr. Feb. 1856 and June 1857. No. 791. 



Var. Hookeri. Var. /3 Hook, f., I.e. 



Leaves subdigitately 7-lobed below the middle, acutely serrate 

 with long points to the serratures, and the lobes terminating in 

 longer slender tails. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A much-branched almost frutescent herb, climb- 

 ing far and widely, apparently rarely in flower. Along fences against 

 primitive forests near Ponte de Felix Simoes, sporadic : fl. Dec. 1855. 

 No. 792. 



The following numbers from the carpological collection appear 

 to belong to this species ; they consist of seeds which show the 

 character of a deciduous filamentous coat, giving many of the 

 seeds a shaggy appearance, while other seeds are quite smooth : — 



GoLTJNGO Alto. — An apparently perennial herb, climbing far and 

 widely ; leaves glaucescent, rigid ; flowers yellow, fleshy ; fruit 

 ellipsoidal, orange-coloured, marked with green longitudinal bands. 

 By fences and thickets near Ponte de Felix Simoes ; seeds Feb. 1856 

 (and June 1857). Coll. Carp. 144 and 147. Climbing on Punica 

 granatuin L., Welw. Herb. No. 2333, in the convent near Bango ; seeds 

 beginning of May 1856. Coll. Carp. 15'2. Fruit baccate, 1 to 1^ in. 

 long, oblong-subpyriform, variegated yellow and green and marked 

 with green bands, quickly becoming putrid ; seeds Coll. Carp. 619. 



15. RAPHIDIOCYSTIS Hook. f. in Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. 



PL i. p. 828. 



1. R. Welwitschii Hook, f.. I.e., and in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 

 p. 554 ; Cogn. in DC, Monogr. Phan. iii. p. 527. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A herb, climbing far and widely, apparently 

 perennial, monoecious ; leaves rather rigid, prettily green, very variable 

 in indumentum but fairly constant in shape ; male flowers seen on 

 only a very few specimens ; ripe fruit spherical, echinate with dense 

 briUiantly purple-red bristles, deeply purple-red even in the densest 

 forests, a remarkable ornament to the primitive forests, filled with a 

 nearly dry pulp. In the denser primitive forests of Sobato de 

 Mussengue, not uncommon but rarely seen in flower ; in female fl. and 

 nearly ripe fr. March 1855 ; in female fl. and very few male fl. in the 

 same locality, end of March 1855. Also in the thickets of Serra de 

 Alto Queta, but never seen in fl., June 1856. No. 810. 



16. COCCINIA Wight & Arn. Prodr. (i) p. 347 (1834). Ce- 

 phalandra Schrad. (1836) ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 827. 



1. C. deeipiens Cogn. in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. p. 539 (1881). 



Cephalandra deeipiens Hook. f. in Ohv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 552. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A bright-green, rather flaccid, climbing herb ; 

 flowers yellow ; fruit baccate, as large as a hazel-nut, ovoid-conical, 

 mucronate with a short acumen, green, at length orange-coloured, 

 variegated with white spots, 3-celled ; cells few-seeded. In sandy 

 grassy places at the skirts of thickets between Catete and the forest 

 of Quilanga, extensively climbing among grasses ; in female and few 

 male fl. and with young fr. beginning of May 1857. No. 816. Fruit 

 ovoid-conical, spotted with white; seeds scarcely ripe; May 1857. 

 Coll. Carp. 618. 



