, TROCHOMERIA . CUCURBITACEÆ (AUCT. COGNIAUX). 401 
Dioiea. Radix crassa, lignosa. Caules plures, filiformes, striati, gla- 
bri, simplices, 30-40 cent. longi. Petiolus filiformis, glaber, 1-1 /, cent. 
longus. Folia ambitu triangularia, 5-6 cent. longa, ad basim fere toti- 
dem lata, lobis triangulari-lanceolatis, acutis. Cirrhi capillares, bre- 
ves, glabri. Pedunculus masculus capillaris, striatus, brevissime vil- 
losus, 1*/,-2 cent. longus. Calycis tubus extus sparse breviterque 
pilosus, intus villosus, 3 mill. longus, apice 3-4 mill.latus; dentes 
subulati, */, mill. longi. Petala erecto-patula, apice obtusa, ad basim 
subconstricta, utrinque brevissime denseque papillosa præcipue extus, 
3*/, mill. longa, 1 !/,-2 Y, mill. lata. Staminum filamenta crassa, gla- 
bra, ‘/, mill. longa ; antheræ in capitulum 2 mill. longum, 1*/, mill. 
crassum leviter cohærentes, interdum liberæ. Pistillodium subnullum. , 
Flores feminei quam masculi minores et graciliores. Ovarium oblon- 
gum, glabrum, leeve, apice longe attenuatum. Fructus ignotus. 
rope Port-Natal (Sanderson in herb. Kew.; Gerrard n. 340 in herb. 
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Sect. II. — HETEROSICYOS. 
Genus Heterosicyos Welw. 1. c. 
Herbae parvulæ, erectæ, siccitate virides. Cirrhi nulli. — Flores 
dioici. 
9, T. polymorpha; caule primum pubescente demum glabrato; 
foliis brevissime petiolatis, polymorphis, lanceolatis ovato-lanceolatis 
vel late ovatis aut obcuneatis, basi leviter attenuatis vel subcordatis, 
apice acutis, integris vel plus minusve 3- rarius 5-lobatis, lobis sursum 
spectantibus, intermedio longiore et latiore; petalis fusco-purpureis. 
— Heterosicyos polymorpha Welw.! Sert. Angol. in Trans. Lin. Soc., 
27, p. 34; Hook. f. in Oliv. Fl. trop. Afr., 2, p. 526. 
Radix uberosa, globosa vel napiformis, plus minusve epigæa. 
Caules ex collo radicis crasso sublignoso plures, 8-15 cent. longi, 
Penhi corvinæ vix erassiores, sulcati, simplices vel ramo uno alte- 
rove patulo muniti, ad nodos leviter geniculati. Petiolus crassiusculus, 
villosus, 2 mill. longus. Folia rigidiuscula, obscure viridia, 3-7-nervia, 
ks que sed precipue subtus et ad nervos pilis sparsis brevibus rigi- 
(ulis adpressis vestita, nune lanceolata, 6-8 cent. longa, 1-1 */, cent. 
-> lunc ovata, 5-7 cent. longa, 4-5 cent. lata. Flores masculi cer- 
tu, solitarii vel in racemulos 2-6-floros digesti; pedunculus communis 
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