ADENOPUS. CUCURBITACEÆ (AUCT. COGNIAUX). All 
Caulis scandens, ramosus, leviter suleatus, sparse longeque villosus. 
Petiolus gracilis, striatus, longe villoso-lanatus, 1 '/,-3 cent. longus. 
Folia supra intense viridia, subtus viridi-cinerea, 7-9 cent. longa, 
9-11 cent. lata, lobis late triangularibus, acutis, margine minute 
remoteque denticulatis; nervi tenues, subtus vix prominentes; sinus 
inter lobos lati, subacuti. Cirrhi satis graciles, breves, sulcati, sparse 
longeque villosi, bifidi. Pedunculus communis masculus satis robustus, 
striatus, sparse pilosus, 12-14 cent. longus, 12-20-florus; pedicelli 
satis graciles, erecto-patuli, puberuli, apice dilatati, 5-8 mill. longi, 
prope basim bracteolati; bracteolæ ovatæ, subintegræ, breviter vil- 
lose, 7-9 mill. longz. Calycis tubus ad basim leviter dilatatus, 
22 mill. longus, apice 6-7 mill. latus; dentes 3-4 mill. longi. Petala 
breviter villosa, ovata, apice obtusa, 2 '/, cent. longa, 2 cent. lata. 
Staminum filamenta subfiliformia, glabra, 5-6 mill. longa ; capitulum 
antherarum 1 cent. longum, 3 mill. crassum. « Fructus baecatus, 4-pol- 
licaris, utrinque retusus, obsolete cylindricus. Semina numerosa, 
alba. » 
In campis sylvestribus ad margines agrorum interior. insulæ Zanzi- 
bariæ (Bojer in herb. Vindob.). 
IX. ADENOPUS, Benth. in Hook. Niger F1., p. 312; Benth. et Hook. 
Gen. Pl, 1, p. 823; Hook. f. in Oliv. Fl. trop. Afr., 2, p. 521. 
Flores dioici. Masculi racemosi. Calycis tubus elongatus, subcylin- 
dricus ; lobi 5, breves, subulati, recurvi. Petala 5, obovata, patentia. 
Stamina 3, tubo calycis inserta, filamentis liberis; antheræ inclusæ, 
n columnam sæpius cylindricam cohærentes, loculis contiguis, sig- 
moideo-flexuosis et creberrime transverse undulatis, connectivo non 
producto. Pollen globosum, læve, poris 3 apertum. Pistillodium breve, 
glanduliforme. — Flores feminei solitarii. Calycis tubus ultra ovarium 
non productus; lobi et corolla maris. Staminodia nulla. Ovarium sub- 
globosum, triplacentiferum; stylus brevis, stigmatibus 3, amplis; 
ovula numerosa, horizontalia. Fructus globosus, carnosus, polysper- 
mus. Semina obovata, compressa, testa lævi marginata. > 
Herbæ vel fructices scandentes, scaberulæ pubescentes vel subto- 
mentosæ, Africæ tropicæ incolæ. Folia subcoriacea, 3-7-lobata, lobis 
Suato-dentatis, petiolo apice biglanduloso vel bicornuto, rarissime 
8landuloso, Cirrhi simplices vel bifidi. Flores albi, ampli, fragrantes. 
tus mediocris. 
