Trochomeria| LXIII, CUCURBITACEA, 389 
three species of Giidia, also with, the next species ; fl. and fr., Nov. and 
Dec. 1859. No. 804. 
4, T. stenoloba Cogn., l.c., p. 402. 
Heterosicyos stenoloba Welw., l.c., p. 34, Hook. f., i.c., p. 526. 
Hviitia.—Corolla wine-yellow. On exposed rocky hills amidst 
short bushes, near Lopollo, at an elevation of 5000 ft., only a few 
specimens seen, in company with the last species and with species of 
nidia and Euphorbiacer ; male fl. Nov. and Dec. 1859. No. 805. 
3. PEPONIA Naud. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 823. 
1. P. lagenarioides Hook. f. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 527; 
Cogn. in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. p. 408 (1881). 
Huiiia,—A prostrate or decumbent annual or biennial herb, with 
the habit of Lagenaria vulgaris Ser. ; stem angular; leaves large, 
reniform, sub-lobed, denticulate, softly flaccid; petiole without a 
gland, peduncles very long; flowers whitish-yellow or white, 
monoecious ; 1 to 14 in. long; stamens triadelphous; young fruit 
oblong-ellipsoidal ; nearly ripe fruit oblong-cylindrical, 2 to 4 in 
long, 1 to 14 in. in transverse diameter, smooth, slightly ribbed 
longitudinally, from orange to scarlet outside; flesh like that of 
cucumber in smell; seeds black. On elevated, rough, uncultivated, 
bushy slopes in Morro de Monino, near Lopollo, at an elevation of 
about 5400 ft., sparingly ; fl. and young fr. Feb., ripe fr. May 1860. 
No. 815. An annual climbing herb, with long shoots spreading 
diffusely in all directions ; leaves large, more or less reniform ; flowers 
yellow ; fruit cylindric-ellipsoidal, obtuse at both ends, yellowish- 
scarlet when ripe, non-operculate, 3-celled ; seeds black, enveloped in 
a hyaline mucilaginous aril. In exposed wooded places at an elevation 
of about 5500 ft.,in Morro de Lopollo ;. seeds, 24 May 1860. Cott. 
Carp. 45. 
4, ADENOPUS Benth. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 823. 
1. A. breviflorus Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 372 (1849); 
Hook. f. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 528; Cogn. in DC. Monogr. 
Phan. iii. p. 412 (1881). 
Loanpa.—A more or less glandular-shaggy, apparently annual, herb, 
with the habit not unlike that of Lagenaria vulgaris Ser., running far 
in the sea-sands among grasses and [pomea carnosa Br. and I. biloba 
Forsk. ; flowers whitish ; between Penedo and Conceigac, very rare ; 
fl. beginning of March 1855. A climbing, scentless herb; leaves 
bright-green, rather glossy, scabrid, with two opposite conical glands 
at the insertion of the petiole ; flowers dicecious, white, large ; calyx 
of the male flowers clavate-tubular, limb short, lobes subulate, uncinate- 
reflexed ; petals broadly obovate-spathulate, densely hirsute inside on 
the claw, lamina thickly nerved, crisp on the margin ; stamens tria- 
delphous, inserted a little below the middle of the calyx-tube ; anthers 
cohering in a compact cylinder # in. long, muticous, very long, gyrose- 
plicate, white ; on the drier hills, among short bushes above the city 
of Loanda, by the road towards Maianga; male fl. 21 April 1858. 
Stem and petioles angular; leaves rough, rather hard, rigid, deep- 
green above, pale-green beneath, delicately veiny between the nerves, 
perfectly 7-lobed or 5-lobed, the basal lobes being more or less 
confluent ; petiole with two opposite glands at the apex ; the glands 
ovoid-conical, fleshy, turgid, rather hard, subulate-acuminate, rather 
