390 LXIII, CUCURBITACES. [ Adenopus 
shining ; in exposed uncultivated hilly places at Alto das Cruzes ; 
flowers dicecious, the female ones solitary, on angular pedicels 4 to 
1in. long; calyx ovoid-elliptical, limb 5-partite ; lobes fleshy, thick, 
subulate, bi-glandular at the base and with another thick fleshy large 
ovoid-conical acute gland at the middle or towards the apex, all these 
glands resembling laciniate leaflets; petals 5, a. little smaller than in 
the male flower, inserted around the throat of the calyx-limb, obovate- 
spathulate, white, rather fleshy, entire, crisp and more or less inflexed 
on the margin, pervaded by thick green nerves, apiculate, the middle 
nerve produced and with several glands at the apex ; ovary ellipsoidal- 
ovoid, inferior, 3-celled ; placentas parietal, many-ovuled, thinly hoary- 
tomentose all over; style cylindrical, trifid; stigmas 3, thickened, 
deeply bilobed, obtuse, connivent, sordid-yellow; lobes erect, somewhat 
inflexed at the apex ; rudiments of the stamens 3, acutely conical, 
opposite the petals, whitish, smooth, subulate ; female fl. 14 July 1858. 
Berry at first ellipsoidal, densely beset with rigid hyaline hairs, as it 
ripens becoming more or less globose, glossy-green, variegated with 
elongated horizontal white spots, hard, 3 to 4 in. in diameter, with a 
white very bitter flesh. In rugged places at the palace ; female fi, 
28 Aug. 1858. <A dicecious apparently perennial herb, extensively 
climbing or procumbent to a great distance, rough; stem softly 
pubescent, obtusely angular-furrowed, flexuous, 5 to 16 ft. long; 
tendrils bifid, the two branches very unequal ; leaves palmately lobed, 
rather rough on both faces, deep-green above, pale-green beneath ; 
furnished at the insertion of the petiole with two opposite conical fleshy 
black-green shining subulate glands, which are 7, in. long; petiole 
an inch long. Female flowers axillary, on a peduncle as long as 
or a little longer than the petiole ; calyx-tube elongate-ovoid, velvety- 
hoary, almost tomentose, adnate to the ovary; limb superior, very 
deeply 5-cleft, lobes from a broad base abruptly subulate, trifid, all 
the segments biglandular at the base with glands of the same shape 
as those at the apex of the petiole; petals crisp on the entire 
inflexed margin, whitish ; style short, white ; stigma coroniform, with 
three deeply bifid very thick yellow obtuse erect-spreading or almost 
connivent lobes ; rudiments of the stamens 3, subulate from a broad 
base, gland-like, scarcely longer than #; in.; ovary 6-celled. Berry 
perfectly spherical, umbilicate with the remains of the calyx-limb, 
when immature about 3 in. in diameter, bright-green, variegated with 
densely crowded white spots, filled with a white firm very bitter 
flesh, 6-celled, many-seeded, usually even when quite ripe keeping a 
whole year in an unaltered state without decaying ; seeds ovate- 
lanceolate, truncate at the base, surrounded by an obtuse thickened 
border. In hilly bushy places near Loanda, rather rare ; fl. and young 
fr. Aug. 1858. Negro name “ Ditanga-Sese,” Coloquintida bastarda. 
No. 852. Ripe seeds of the Coloquintida bastarda (Pseudo-Colo- 
cynthis). Cou. Carp. 606. 
GoLuNGo ALTo.—A dark-green dicecious herb, very widely climbing; 
flowers white, very fragrant by night. Very abundant and nearly 
everywhere in thickets at the skirts of forests, especially about Sange, 
flowering in the rainy season, fruiting in winter; fl. and fr. Sept. 
1855 and March 1856 ; also in half-shady rich soils between Sange and 
Undelle, female fl. March 1856. No. 853. Climbing in masses; fruit 
33 to 4 in. in diameter. Sange; fr. 1855. “Pseudo-coloquinta.” 
Cott. Carp. 607. Flowers large, white, rather fleshy ; fruit globose, 
_as large as a very big orange, greenish-white, variegated with spots. 
Everywhere climbing in dense thickets, near Sange, etc.; fl. from 
