532 DICOTYLEDONEÆ. COCCINIA . 
Iter Abyss. ser. 2, n. 1418; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. 1, p. 296; Schweinf, 
Beitr. Fl. Æthiop. p. 63. — C. Schimperiana Hochst.! in Schimp. 
Iter Abyss. sect. 3, n. 1570. — C. triangulata Hochst.! 1. c. n. 1202. 
— Coccinia Moimoi Rom. Syn. fasc. 2, p. 93. — C. Schimperi 
Naud.! in Ann. sc. nat. ser. 4, v. 8, p. 365, v. 12, p. 116; Rev. hort. 
1861, p. 393. — Cephalandra Schimperi Naud.! 1. c. ser. 5, v. 5, p. 16. 
Planta alte scandens, 8-10-metralis, radice crassa sublignosa pe- 
rennans; caulibus ipse basi lignescentibus ; flagellis gracilibus, lævi- 
bus, angulato-suleatis. Petiolus satis robustus, leviter compressus, 
striatus, subglaber, lævis vel rugulosus, 5-8 cent. longus. Folia supra 
intense viridia, subtus pallidiora, utrinque tenuiter punctata, basi 
5-nervia, 8-20 cent. longa, 7-18 cent. lata, margine crenato-dentata, 
dentibus omnibus angulisque glandula rubente terminatis; sinus basi- | 
laris sæpius anguste triangularis, 2-4 cent. profundus. Cirrhi fili- 
formes, elongati, striati, subglabri. Pedunculus masculus filiformis, 
striatus, sparse pilosus vel subglaber, 4-7 cent. longus. Calycis tubus 
late campanulatus, ad basim breviter attenuatus, sparse pilosus, 
4-5 mill. longus, 6-7 mill. latus; dentes 2-3 mill. longi. Corolla 
1 1/,-2 cent. longa, extus glabra, intus leviter villosa, margine ciliata. 
Staminum filamenta glabra, 2 mill. longa, libera vel in columnam 
connata; capitulum antherarum 5 mill. longum, 6-7 mill. crassum. 
Pedunculus femineus */,-1 cent. longus. Staminodia triangulari-lan- 
ceolata, villosa, 1-1 */, mill. longa. Ovarium oblongum, 8-10 mill. lon- 
gum, 3 mill. crassum; stylus gracilis, glaber, 6 mill. longus, stigma- 
tibus bilobis, erectis, 5-6 mill. longis. Pedunculus fructiferus 2 cent. 
longus, 2 mill. erassus. Fructus glaberrimus, marmoratus, utrinque 
rotundatus, 5 cent. longus, 4 cent. crassus. Semina pallide cinerea, 
basi leviter appendiculata, apice rotundata, utrinque brevissime den- 
seque papillosa, 6-7 mill. longa, 3-4 mill. lata, 1 ‘/, mill. crassa. 
In Arabia ad Mor (Ehrenberg); in Nubia (Schweinfurth n. 85 et 86; 
Kotschy n. 308); in Abyssinia (Schimper n. 336, 365, 1048, 1202, 
1215, 1418, 1570; Beccari n. 275; Quartin-Dillon et Petit; Figa?: 
Courbon; Rochet d'Héricourt; d'Arnaud); in Africa centrali ad 
6° lat. N. (Dr. Peney); in Suakin et Berber (Schweinfurth n. 214, 
964, 981, 1037); in Zanzibar (Boivin in herb. Mus. Par.); in Senegal” 
bia prope Richard-Tol (Lelièvre in herb. Berol.) et ad insul. 5 
(Heudelot n. 528 in herb. Mus. Par., Deless., Brit. Mus.). 
3. €. palmatisecta (Kotschy Pl. Bind. p. 11, tab. 4); foliis x- 
viter petiolatis, utrinque tuberculato-punctatis, subtus basi inter ne” 
