TELFAIRIA. CUCURBITACEÆ (AUCT. COGNIAUX). 851 
gine repando-dentata vellaciniata, rarius integerrima, intermedium 
8-15 cent. longum, 4-7 cent. latum, lateralia minora. Cirrhi robusti, 
elongati, glabri, angulato-sulcati. Pedunculus communis masculus 
satis robustus, striatus, glaber vel puberulus, 10-25 cent. longus; 
pedicelli 1-5 cent. longi; bracteolæ subpetiolulatæ, subrotundatæ, 
profunde serratæ, pubescentes. Calyx brevissime denseque villosus. 
Corolla 4-5 cent. lata, crassiuscula, extus pubescentia, intus papillosa. 
Fructus carnosus, 40-90 cent. longus, 15-25 cent. crassus, pulpa amara. 
Semina 2 !/,-3 cent. lata, oleosa. 
«In Africa meridionali; culta in ora orientalis Africæ et insulis 
Zanzibar: et Mauritius » (Bojer in herb. Vindob.); in insul. Zanzibar 
ubi spontze culta (Bojer in herb. DC., Mus. Par., Kew.; Kirk in herb. 
Kew.); in Nossi-Bé, culta (Boivin in herb. Mus. Par.); in Mauritius 
(Bojer in herb. Deless.; Telfair in herb. Kew.). 
2. T. oecidentalis (Hook. f.! in Oliv. Fl. trop. Afr. 2, p. 524): 
foliolis basi triplinerviis; calycis tubo hemisphærico, segmentis serra- 
tis; corolla late campanulata, alba, disco purpureo, lobis rotundatis, 
breviter fimbriatis; fructu ovoideo, alte decaptero, alis crassis. — 
Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. tab. 6272; Proceed. Lin. Soc. 1873-1874, p. 27. 
Planta in juventute puberula, demum glabra. Radix crassa, car- 
nosa. Caulis elongatus, ramosus, satis gracilis, angulato-sulcatus. 
Petiolus satis robustus, supra suleatus, 2-6 cent. longus; petioluli 
1-1 */ cent. longi, puberuli. Foliola oblonga, acuminata, supra intense 
viridia, subtus pallidiora, utrinque scabriuscula præcipue supra, mar- 
gine integerrima vel minutissime remoteque subulato-denticulata, 
intermedium 10-15 cent. longum, 4-7 cent. latum, lateralia multo 
minora. Cirrhi robusti, elongati, Pedunculus communis masculus 
robustus, suleatus, 15-30 cent. longus, 6-10-florus ; pedicelli 1-3 cent. 
longi; bracteolæ parvæ. Calycis tubus suleatus, segmentis late trian- 
gulari-ovatis, obtusis. Corolla 3 1/,-5 cent. lata. Flores feminei ignoti. 
Fruetus carnosus, 40-60 cent. longus, obtuse rostratus, flavo-viridis, 
pulpa flava; alæ 2-3 cent. latæ. Semina fusca, 3 cent. lata. 
In Sierra Leone (Barter in herb. Kew.; Welwitsch n. 823 in herb. 
Brit. Mus.); ad Abeokuta (Irving n. 69 in herb. Kew.); in Calabaria 
veteri (Thomson n. 2324 in herb. Kew.); in Fernando Po (Mann n. 233 
in herb. Kew. et sine n. in herb. Mus. Par.). 
UL TRICHOSANTHES, Linn. Gen. p. 295 (1737), Hort. Cliff. p. 450, 
Spec. ed. 1, p. 1008, ed. 2, p. 1432, Gen. ed. 6, p. 505; Adans. 
Fam. 2, y. 139; Reich. Gen. p. 503; Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 322; 
