CORALLOCARPUS CUCURBITACEÆ (AUCT. COGNIAUX). 653 
breviter petiolatis, supra brevissime denseque papilloso-hirsutis, sub- 
tus brevissime tomentosis demum scabris, basi satis profunde emargi- 
natis, rotundo-5-angulatis; pedunculo communi masculo satis gracili, 
recto, folio multo longiore ; floribus femineis fasciculatis vel spicatis ; 
fructu ovoideo, apice acuto vel obscure rostrato; seminibus fulvis, 
globosis, leviter marginatis, tenuissime rugulosis. — Rhynchocarpa 
erostris Schweinf.! in Verh. Zool.-Bot. Wien. Gesell. 18, p. 672 (1868). 
Caulis satis robustus, parce ramosus, succulentus, angulatus, 
sparse pilosus, leviter scaber, ad nodos geniculatus. Petiolus satis ro- 
bustus, dense villoso-hirsutus, 2-3 cent. longus. Folia late ovato-cor- 
data, erassiuscula, supra pallide viridia, subtus cinerea, apice obtusa 
mucronataque, margine levissime sinuato-dentieulata, angulis obtusis 
vel rotundatis, 5-8 cent. longa lataque; sinus basilaris subrectangu- 
laris, 1-2 cent. latus et profundus. Cirrhi satis robusti, basi incras- 
sati, elongati, suleati, villosi. Pedunculus communis masculus breviter 
villosus, suleatus, 10-12 cent. longus, apice 15-25-florus ; pedicelli ca- 
pilares, patuli, flexuosi, brevissime villosi, 4-6 mill. longi. Calycis 
tubus eampanulatus, basi acutus, breviter villosus, 1 '/, mill. longus 
latusque ; dentes erecto-patuli, subulati, */, mill. longi. Corolla viridi- 
flavescens, segmentis brevissime papillosis, triangularibus, acutis, 
1*/, mill. longis. Fructus baccatus, croceus, lævis, tomentellus, basi 
rotundatus, 4-6-spermus, 13-15 mill. longus, 8-9 mill. erassus. Semina 
?'/, mill. longa, 3 mill. lata crassaque. 
In Nubia ad mont. Scoturba, lat. 20? bor. (Schweinfurth n. 120 in 
herb, Berol., Vindob., Boiss., Kew.). 
Y. €. Ehrenbergii (Hook. f.! in Oliv. Fl. trop. Afr. 2, p. 566); 
foliis longule petiolatis, supra brevissime hirsutis, subtus breviter to- 
mentosis, basi profunde emarginatis, usque ad medium trilobatis, 
lobis ovatis vel ovato-oblongis, apice rotundatis, integris; pedunculis 
communibus masculis gracilibus, flexuosis, multifloris, foliis multo 
longioribus; floribus femineis fasciculatis vel breviter racemosis; fructu 
ovoideo-oblongo, utrinque leviter attenuato, apice longule rostrato ; 
seminibus fuscis, vix compressis, distincte marginatis, leviter rugulo- 
S. — Rhynchocarpa Ehrenbergii Aschers.! in Schweinf. Herb. 
Nub. n° 61 (1865), in Schweinf. Beitr. z. Fl. Æth. p. 251; Verh. 
los Wien. Gesell. 1868, p. 673. — Turia sp. Schweinf. Beitr. 
Caulis satis robustus, glaucescens, angulatus, breviter pubescenti- 
“caber, flexuosus, parce ramosus. Petiolus gracilis, striatus, breviter 
