CORALLOCARPUS . CUCURBITACEÆ (AUCT. COGNIAUX). 657 
Antheræ ovatæ, connectivo angusto, ultra loculos vix producto, non 
diviso. Ovarium oblongum, biplacentiferum, breviter tomentosum. 
Fructus maturatione rubescens, lævis, tomentellus, 5-6-spermus, 
15-14 mill. longus, 8-9 mill. erassus. Semina 4 mill. longa, 3 mill. 
lata, 2 1/, mill. crassa. 
In montibus Abyssiniæ, loco dicto Sera-Walqua, ad altitudinem 
1500-1700 metr. (Schimper n. 413 in herb. Mus. Par., Boiss., Kew.). 
IL. Flores masculi subsessiles, fasciculati. 
5313, €. Gijef (Hook. f.! in Oliv. Fl. trop. Afr. 2, p. 566); foliis 
rigidis, satis breviter et crassiuscule pedunculatis, utrinque brevis- 
sime papilloso-scaberrimis, cinereo-canescentibus, late cordato-subre- 
niformibus, basi leviter emarginatis, apice acutis, leviter trilobatis, 
lobis crenulatis vel undulatis; fructu sessili, ovoideo, apice acuto vel 
breviter rostrato; seminibus fulvis, ovoideo-oblongis, compressis, basi 
attenuatis, vix marginatis, utrinque levibus. — Turia Gijef Forsk. 
Fl. Æg.-Arab. p. 166; DC. Prodr. 3, p. 304; G. Don, Gen. syst. 3, 
D. 30. — Rhynchocarpa Gijef Schweinf. et Aschers.! in Schweinf. 
Herb. Nub. n. 56, 58, 60. — Cyrtonema elegans Fenzl! in Kotschy 
Iter Nubic. n, 383. 
Caulis robustus, elongatus, suberosus, valde ramosus; rami gra- 
ciles, angulati, scaberrimi, ad nodos geniculati. Petiolus striatus, sca- 
errimus, 2-3 cent. longus. Folia 3-5 cent. longa, 4-6 cent. lata, lobis 
late ovatis, intermedio sæpius longiore; sinus inter lobos obtusi vel 
Subacuti, basilaris late triangularis, '/,-1 cent. profundus. Cirrhi satis 
robusti, elongati, angulati, glabri, scabriusculi. Pedicelli masculi ca- 
pillares, leviter flexuosi, brevissime villoso-hirsuti, 5-6 mill. longi, in 
fasciculos 6-16-floros aggregati. Calycis tubus basi attenuatus, apice 
abrupte dilatatus, sparse pilosus, 1 '/, mill. longus, 1 '/-2 mill. latus; 
entes patuli, aneuste triangulares, apice brevissime denseque pilosi, 
| mill. longi. Corolla brevissime denseque papillosa præcipue ad api- 
“em, segmentis erecto-patulis, ovato-triangularibus, subacutis, 1 '/,-2 
mill. longis, l-1'/, mill. latis. Flores feminei sessiles, geminati vel 
9--ni, Ovarium ovoideo-oblongum, sulcatum, breviter denseque pa- 
Pilloso-hirsutum, apice vix constrictum. Fructus rubescens, basi ro- 
undatus, longitudinaliter tenuissime costatus, subglaber, 2-6-sper- 
y > 12 mill. longus, 8 mill. crassus. Semina ad basim subalata, 
/5 mill. longa, 2 %/,-3 mill. lata, 2 mill. crassa. 
Arabia prope Mor (Ehrenberg n. 168 in herb. Mus. Par., Boiss., 
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