KEDROSTIS . CUCURBITACEÆ (AUCT. COGNIAUX). 643 
In Africa australi (Zeyher n. 602 in herb. Mus. Par., Van H., 
Webb., Kew., Edin.; Armstrong in herb. Edin.); prope Beaufort 
(Burke in herb. Kew.). 
9, K. Africana; monoica; foliis breviter petiolatis, ambitu 
triangularibus, utrinque leviter scabris, supra interdum tenuiter 
punctatis, digitato-3-5-partitis, segmentis pinnatifidis, lobis numero- 
sis, planis, lanceolatis vel lanceolato-linearibus, acutis mucronatisque, 
integris vel dentatis; racemis masculis foliis brevioribus vel paulo lon- 
gioribus; calyce glabro, dentibus elongatis, subulatis; fructu subses- 
sili, subgloboso, apice rotundato et breviter rostrato, glabro, obscure 
S-sulcato, sæpius 4-spermo. — Bryonia africana, laciniata, etc., Herm. 
Parad. tab. 23. — B. Africana Linn.! Spec. edit. 1, p. 1013 (1753), 
edit. 2, p. 1438, non Thunb. (1794). — B. dissecta Thunb. ! Prodr. pl. 
Cap. p. 13 (1794), Fl. Cap., p. 36; Willd. Spec. 4, p. 624; DC. 
Prodr. 3, p. 308. — B. pinnatifida Burch.! Trav. 1, p. 547 (non Vel- 
loso); DC. 1. e.; Rem. Syn. fase. 2, p. 40. — Coniandra dissecta 
Schrad. ! in Eckl. et Zeyh. Enum. pl. Cap., p. 276; Rem. l. c. p. 23. 
— C. pinnatisecta Schrad.! 1. c. ; Roem. 1. e. p. 22. — Bryonia multi- 
fida E. Meyer! in herb. Drége. — Coniandra Africana Sond.! in 
Harv. et Sond. Fl. Cap. 2, p. 483. — Rhynchocarpa dissecta Naud. ! 
in Ann. sc. nat. ser. 4, v. 16, p. 179 et in Rev. hort., 1862, p. 225. — 
R. Africana Aschers.! in Schweinf. Beitr. z. Fl. Æthiop. p. 268. 
« Radix alba, carnosa, succulenta, fragilis, crassitudine brachii 
humani et semimetrum nonnunquam longa, simplex aut divisa. » 
Caulis gracilis, scandens, ramosissimus, angulatus, glaber, 4-6 metr. 
ongus. Petiolus gracilis, suleatus, subglaber vel sparse pilosus, 
4-12 mill. longus. Folia utrinque intense viridia, nitidula, mollia, 
6-10 cent. longa lataque, segmentis 5-8 cent. longis, lobis 2-6 mill. 
latis, Cirrhi filiformes, elongati, tenuiter striati, glabri. Pedunculus 
Communis masculus gracillimus, tenuiter striatus, glaber, 3-6 cent. 
longus, apice 5-12-florus ; pedicelli patuli, eapillares, glabri, 3-5 mill. 
longi, ad basim plerumque bracteolati. Calycis tubus late campanu- 
latus, basi rotundatus, 1 */, mill. longus, 2 mill. latus; dentes patuli, 
1-2 mill. longi, !/,-'/, mill. lati. Petala sordide virentia, patula, strio- 
lata, ovata, acuta, 2 mill. longa. Ovarium ventricosum, biloculare. 
Peduneulus fructiferus crassiusculus, 1-3 mill. longus. Fructus car- 
nosus, primum maculis pallide virentibus variegatus, demum auran- 
tiaco-rubens, 12-15 mill. longus, 7-9 mill. crassus; rostrum gracile, 
23 mill. longum. Semina fusca, ovoidea, compressa, utrinque dis- 
