404 LXiii. CUCURBITACE^. [Kedrostis 



1. K. foetidissima Oogn. in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. p. 634 (1881). 



Rhynchocarpa feetida Schrad. in Linnsea xii. p. 403 (1838) ; 

 Hook. f. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 564. 



Var. a. Perrottetiana Cogn., I.e., p. 635. Bryonia Perrotetiana 

 Ser. in DC. Prodr. iii. p. 304 (1828). 



LoANDA. — ^A climbing herb, the whole plant very rankly fetid, the 

 fetid odour persisting even in dried specimens after many years ; stem 

 angular, hairy ; leaves cordate-ovate, repand, rather scabrid ; flowers 

 monoecious, yellowish, the male ones seated on reduced and very 

 slender peduncles, the female ones solitaiy or on bipartite peduncles ; 

 fruit ellipsoidal, as large as a pea, conical-acuminate at the apex, 

 crowned with the remains of the flower, 6- to 7-ribbed, scarlet when 

 ripe, 2-celled, usually 4-seeded ; seeds obovate, all thickened on the 

 margin, attenuate and bilobed at the base. In sandy bushy places 

 between Maianga do Povo and Bemposta ; fl. and nearly ripe fr. end 

 of April 1858 (and more abundant in 1854). No. 822. 



21. CORALLOCARPUS Welw. ex Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. i. 831. 



1. C. Welwitschii Hook. f. ex Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 

 p. 32, t. 12 (1869), and in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 566; Cogn. 

 in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. p. 651 (1881). 



Rhynchocarpa Welwitschii Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat., Ser. 4, xviii. 

 p. 198, t. 10 (1862). 



LoANDA. — A suffruticose, widely climbing, glaucous, succulent herb, 

 the whole plant exuding a yellowish resinous juice, very tenacious of 

 life (the nearly dry branchlets in the herbarium shooting afresh and 

 throwing out both male and female flowers) ; rootstock woody, perennial; 

 stem fleshy and almost turnip-shaped at the base, the parts above the 

 ground slender, angular ; tendrils long, simple, closely twisted in the 

 form of spirals ; flowers monoecious, axillary, yellowish-green, the male 

 ones racemose-cymose, the female ones solitary ; flowering branches, 

 peduncles, and pedicels rather fleshy. In the male flower calyx tubular- 

 campanulate, 5-cleft ; corolla adnately inserted on the calyx, 5-parted, 

 with spreading segments ; stamens included, inserted at the base of 

 the corolla-segments, (5 each bearing one anther or) 3, 2 of which 

 bear 2 anthers each and are opposite to the corolla-segments, and the 

 other one bears 1 anther alternating with the corolla-segments; (in one 

 instance there were 3 stamens, each bearing 1 anther, and 1 stamen 

 bearing 2 anthers ;) filaments flattened, rather fleshy, straight, very 

 short; connective straight, produced beyond the anthers, free or in the 

 2-anthered stamens connate ; anthers linear, 1-celled, straight, vertical, 

 adnate to the connective on one side ; pistil obsolete. In the female 

 flowers calyx-tube ovoid-oblong or urceolate, adnate to the ovary ; 

 limb subcampanulate, 5-cleft ; corolla-segments 5, adnately inserted at 

 the sinuses between the calyx-lobes, obovate, delicately fringed and 

 glandular-cihate on the margin, \ longer than the calyx-lobes, at the 

 time of flowering erect-spreading, yellowish ; staminodes 5, rudi- 

 mentary, alternating with the corolla-segments ; ovary inferior 2- or 

 3-celled ; ovules several ; style terminal, nearly included, cylindrical, 

 rather thick, somewhat 2- or 3-divided a little below the stigma ; 

 stigma large, rotate-expanded, laciniate-fimbriate. Fruit eUipsoidal- 

 cylindrical, \ in. long, rather obtuse, bright scarlet, 2-celled, separating 

 when ripe in a circumsciss-operculate manner from the greatly thickened 

 peduncle ; seeds several, horizontal, wrapped in a coloured membrane.. 



