388 _LXIII, CUCURBITACES. [Trochomeria 
calyx tubular, at the base including the abortive ovary ; corolla-lobes 5, 
lanceolate-linear, very acuminate, reflexed at the time of flowering, 
longer than the calyx-tube ; stamens 3, arising from the middle of the 
calyx-tube ; anthers straight, oblong-ellipsoidal, vertically approximated 
at the bare back ; connective produced at the apex, blackish-glandular ; 
ovary rudimentary, elongate-ovoid, shortly 3-lobed at the apex ; lobes 
apparently stigmatose. In open dry bushy places among the mountains 
of the Eastern Queta ; at Carengue ; male fl. 19 Sept. 1856. Native 
name “Bumba Riachole.” No. 793d. A dicecious plant, flowering . 
sometimes without the leaves, at other times with the leaves, remark- 
ably polymorphous ; rootstock napiform, half subterranean, when 
fully developed as large as a child’s head, in high repute among the 
negroes as an excellent remedy in the form of a powder in cases of the 
disease called by them Ribebo, that is, a form of quinsy or carbuncle. 
On rocky slopes among low bushes at the base of Serra de Alto 
Queta near the river Luinha, sporadic nearly throughout the district, 
but become scarce on account of the tubers being eagerly searched for 
by the negroes; female fl. April to Aug., fr. Sept. 1855. Native 
name “ Bumbo-Riaxole.” No. 793c. In an open stony mountainous 
place among grasses and low shrubs, near Sange ; very rare, only one 
specimen seen, female fl. and young fr. April 1856. Called “‘ Bumba 
Riachole.” No. 798. 
This is the plant referred to by Welw. Apont. p. 556 under n, 129, 
as belonging to a near genus. It occurs also, but not abundantly, in 
the district of Ambaca and at the Milongo country. 
2. T. macrocarpa Hook. f., Z.c., p. 524; Cogn., Zc, p. 398. 
Var. bracteata Cogn., .c., p. 399. 
Go.tunco ALTO.—Climbing amid very tall grasses ; leaves bright- 
green, comparatively fleshy ; male flowers greenish. In rough moun- 
tainous situations, with tall bushes, near Camilungo ; only one specimen 
in male fl. seen in April 1856; female plant searched for without’ 
success, but in June a tuber found which had been got by the negroes 
at the same locality. No. 794. 
This is the plant mentioned by Hooker, /.c., p. 525, as differing from 
the type of this species. 
Punco AnDoNGo.—Whole plant bright-green, partly climbing, some- 
times decumbent ; rootstock tuberous ; young fruit greenish or some- 
what yellowish. In the more open thickets of the fortress of Pungo 
Andongo,.very scarce ; young fr. March 1857. No. 797. 
Var. Welwitschii Cogn., i.c., p. 399; Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 186 
(1884). 
Pungo AnDoNGO.—Rootstock perennial, napiform, with drastic 
-qualities, stems very slender, elongated, scandent or decumbent ; leaves 
bright-green ; flowers yellow-greenish. In rather dry wooded places 
between the river Lutete and the fortress of Pungo Andongo ; only 
one specimen seen, with male fl., Oct. 1856. Native name “ Bumba 
Ria Chala.” No. 796. 
3. T. polymorpha Cogn., J.c., p. 401. 
Heterosicyos polymorpha Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. p. 34 
(1869) ; Hook. f. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 526. 
HviLLa.—Seeds in some cases bisulcate on one side and trisuleate on 
the other. On exposed rocky hills amidst short bushes, near Lopollo, 
.at an elevation of 5000 ft., very sparingly, in company with Irides and 
