380 BUI.I.KIIN DK i/hkKBIKR BOISSIER (2""* SKR.). 1907 



n. 80 N). Albreda (Leprieiir). Gambia, withoul locality (Heudelot, n. 365, 

 ri. 493, in llerb. Mus. Paris). 



Syri. — Cucumis Mader aspatana L. (1753); Bryonia Maderaspatana 

 Berg. (1 767) ; Mnkia Maderaspatana Roem. 



266. Momordica charantia L. — FT A. II. 538 (Boteler). 



267. Luffa aegyptiaca Mill. — St. Mary's Island (Bowdich). 



268. Citrullus vulgaris Schrad.(1835). — Fï A. II. 549. (Ingram). 

 Hooker says llial tlie waler-melon is Iruly wild in Tropical Africa. 

 Dr. Livingslone saw districts literally covered wilh il in Central Africa. 

 Linnseiis erroneously thought it was a native of S. Italy. Earlier names, 

 linder the same genus, for tlie waler-melon (which hâve never become 

 current) inchide C. pasteca Sageret (1826), and C. caff'ei Sclirad. 

 (1834). 



269. Cucumis dipsaceus Ehrenb. — F TA. II. 543 (Ingram), 



270. Lagenaria vulgaris Ser, — St. Mary's Island (Bowdich), 

 Under the native name of « Mirango », tlie calabash is also much cultivaled 

 by the Mandingos. 



271. Cucurbita maxima Duchesne in I.amk. Encvcl, Méth. II. 151 



(fasc. 20, Oct. 1786). — St. Mary's Island (Howdich). The great yellow 

 gourd is much cultivated by the natives on the banks of the Gambia. 

 There is no reason also against ils being considered indigenous in certain 

 parts of Ihe colony: the more so as Hooker stales the plants found 

 by Barter on Ihe banks of Ihe Niger were apparenlly indigenous 

 there. 



Ord. Asterales 



Farn. 61, GOODENOVIACEjE 



272. Scaevola lobelia Thunb. Plant. Gapens. 38(1794). — St. Mary's 

 Island (Bowdich). Liiinaeus founded ihe genus Scaevola on Lobelia Phimieri 

 L., Sp. Plant. 929. The lype-specimen in the Linnean Herbarium is 

 without doubl Scaevola Kœnigii Vahl (1794); and Lobelia Plumieri Burm. 

 fil., FI. Ind. 186 (1768) is the same plant. As far as this African plant is 

 concerned therefore. it is advisable to cite Thunberg as the authorily in- 

 stead of Murray (Syst. Yeg. éd. 13, 1774, p. 178). 



Fam. 62. ASTERACEjE 



273. Vernonia cinerea Less. — Bakkendik in Upper Niumi dis- 

 trict, Karngour in Lower Baddibu district. Ballé and Torro. on Suarra 

 Kunda Creek, in Jokadu district (Lester, n. 22 N, n.37N. n.54N, n.61 N). 

 Widely spread in West Tropical Africa. None of Lester's spécimens 

 kept. 



