434 DICOTYLEDONEA. MOMORDICA . 
oblonga, compressa, marginata, margine lobulata, tenuiter rugulosa, 
13 mill. longa, 8 mill. lata, 3 mill. crassa. 
In Mozambique ad flum. Shire (Kirk in herb. Kew.; J. Meller in 
herb. Kew.). 
5. M. elematidea (Sond.! in Harv. et Sond. Fl. Cap., 2, p. 491); 
dioica; foliis bi- ternati-compositis; foliolis numerosis, membrana- 
ceis, ovatis vel oblongis, apice acutis, basi rotundatis, glabris; 
floribus masculis solitariis; pedunculo apice late bracteato; calyce 
glabro, regulari, segmentis ovatis, obtusis; floribus femineis ebrac- 
teatis; fructu ovoideo-oblongo, acuto, subtereto, lævi. — M. cardio- 
pifmaldes Klotzsch! in Peters” Mosamb. Bot. p. 150; Hook. f. in 
Oliv. Fl. trop. Afr. 2, p. 535. 
Caulis gracilis, profunde sulcatus, glaber. Petiolus gracillimus, sul- 
catus, glaber sed ad basim et ad apicem longe denseque fasciculato 
pilosus, 1-1 */, cent. longus; petioluli 3, patuli, intermedius pennati- 
5-7-foliolatus, 3-5 cent. longus, laterales alterni-pennati-3-5-foliolati, 
1-2 cent. longi; petioluli secundarii 2-4 mill. longi. Foliola supra in- 
tense viridia et tenuiter punctato-scabriuscula, subtus pallida et 
leevia, crenulato-dentata, dentibus mucronulatis, 1-2 cent. longa, 
4-12 mill. lata. Cirrhi filiformes, satis elongati, sulcati, glabri, sim- 
plices vel bifidi. Pedunculus masculus filiformis, angulatus, glaber, 
5-8 cent. longus; bractea suborbiculata, concava, sessilis, margine 
integerrima, basi emarginata et leviter glandulosa, subglabra, 
1-2 cent. lata. Calycis tubus subrotatus, 6-7 mill. latus, segmentis 
5-6 mill. longis, 4-5 mill. latis. Corolla 4-5 cent. lata, flava, ad basim 
purpurea, segmentis ovato-oblongis, obtusis. Staminum filamenta 
1|, mill. longa, apice biglandulosa; antheræ ovato-oblonge, 3 mill. 
longæ, loculis longitudinaliter triplieatis, connectivo angusto. Pedun- 
culus femineus 3-5 cent. longus. Fructus carnosus, basi rotundatus, 
rubro-aurantiaeus, 8-9 cent. longus, 4 '/,-5 cent. crassus. Semina 
ovata, valde compressa, 12-13 mill. longa, 9 mill. lata, testa atro- 
fusca, crustacea, pauci tuberculata. 
In Mozambique ad Sena (Peters in herb. Berol.) ; ad Sena, Shupanga 
et insul. Pita (Kirk in herb. Kew.); ad Magalisberg (Burke n. 357 in 
herb. Kew.; Zeyher n. 578 sec. Sond. 1..c.). 
B. Foliola exteriora et petioli glandulæ longe pedicellatæ gerentes. 
6. M. Suringariiz foliis trifoliolatis; foliolis membranaceis. 
