39 DICOTYLEDONEÆ. MOMORDICA , 
antheræ biloculares 3 */, mill. longæ, 2 */, mill. latæ, loculis apice in- 
curvis non sigmoideis. Peduneulus femineus, 1-3 cent. longus. Ova- 
rium fusiforme, 8-10- suleatum, breviter villoso-hirsutum, apice longe 
rostratum. Fructus rubro-aurantiacus, 5-7 cent. longus, 3-3 '/, cent. 
crassus, apice in rostrum 1 '/,-2 cent. longum, 2-3 mill. crassum pro- 
ductus, alis prominentibus et in ipsa acie sinuatis dentatisve longitu- 
dinaliter instructus, demum lacerus et varie hians. Semina late ovata, 
parum complanata, subtiliter corrugata et nigricantia, margine cincta 
vix perspicuo, 8-9 mill. longa, 7 mill. lata, 3 */, mill. crassa. 
In Abyssinia prope Adowa (Dillon et Petit in herb. Francav. et 
Kew.; Dillon n. 3 in herb. Mus. Par.); in regione inferiori montis 
Scholoda (Schimper n. 187 in herb. Mus. Par., DC., Boiss., Van fL; 
Francav., Berol., Monac., hort. Petrop., Kew. ; n. 329 in herb. Boiss., 
Mus. Par., Kew.; n. 333 in herb. Mus. Par.); in distr. Bogos, altit. 
1500 metr. (Beccari n. 157 in herb. suo, Flor. et Berol.); in reg. 
Habab (Hildebrandt n. 615 in herb. Vindob.); in reg. Niamniam 
(Sehweinfurth n. 3759 et 3833 in herb. Kew.). 
3. M. trifoliolata (Hook. f.! in Oliv. Fl. trop. Afr., 2, p. 537); 
dioica; foliis trifoliolatis; foliolis subcoriaceis, longule petiolulatis, 
ovatis, apice obtusis et mucronatis, basi rotundatis vel truncatis, 
subglabris, lateralibus interdum bifidis vel bifoliolatis; floribus mas- 
culis irregulariter racemosis rarius solitariis; pedicellis ad basim 
minute bracteatis, apice late bracteolatis; calyce glabro, regulari, 
segmentis suborbicularibus, obtusis; floribus femineis minute brat- 
teatis; fructu ovoideo, sublævi. — Oliv. Speke et Gr. exped. in Trans. 
Lin. Soc., v. 29, p. 76, tab. 41. — Momordica sp., Thomson, in Speke 
and Gr. Trav., Appendix, p. 635. 
Caulis gracillimus, angulato-sulcatus, ramosus, glaber sed ad nodos 
fasciculato-villosus. Petiolus gracilis, striatus, glaber vel leviter pu 
berulus præcipue ad apicem, '/,-1 cent. longus ; petioluli divergentes, 
1-3 cent. longi. Foliola supra læte viridia, subtus pallida, utrinque 
sublævia, tenuiter punctulata, margine integerrima, tenuiter denti- 
culata vel undulato-suberenulata, intermedium 2 /,-5 cent. longum, 
2-4 cent. latum, lateralia paulo minora. Cirrhi subfiliformes, elongat!, 
suleati, glabri, simplices. Pedunculus communis masculus gracilis 
subangulatus, 2-8 cent. longus ; pedicelli patuli, filiformes, puberuli, 
1-5 cent. longi; bracteæ lanceolato-subulatæ, 2-4 mill. longæ ; brac- 
teolæ rotundatæ, sessiles, sparse villosæ vel subglabræ, integerrim# 
margine ad basim glandulosæ, ‘/,-1 cent. latæ. Calycis tubus latis- 
