Adenopus]| LXIII. CUCURBITACEA. 391 
March to June, fr. Oct. 1856. The “coloquinta” of the shops. 
Co... Carp. 146. 
MossamEDES.—In a sandy bushy place at the banks of the river 
Bero, Mata dos Carpenteiros; only one plant seen, in young fr. 
Aug. 1859. No. 811. 
Prince’s Istanp.—In thickets at the skirts of forests near Bahia 
de Santo Antonio, abundant; sparingly in fl, and fr. Sept. 1853. No. 851. 
5. EUREIANDRA Hook. f. in Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL. i. p. 825. 
1. E. formosa Hook. f. in Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 825, 
and in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 533 (Huryandra formosa) ; Cogn., 
Z.c., p. 415. 
GoLunco ALTo.—A rough dicecious herb, climbing on trees to a 
considerable height, remarkable for its large golden-yellow flowers; 
male flowers very large, deep-yellow. Female flowers smaller than 
the male ; stamens 5, sterile, bearded, free or combined at the extreme 
base ; ovary cylindrical, many-ovuled ; style proportionately long, 
trifid ; stigmas thick, papillose, broadly obcordate ; ripe fruit 3 in. 
long, 1 in. thick, cylindric-fusiform, at first dusky-green and covered 
with scattered warts, soon turning beautifully scarlet and beset with 
white persistent warts, many-seeded ; seeds black, almost spherical, 
pea-shaped., By the taller dense apparently secondary thickets along 
the base of the mountains of Serra de Alto Queta, sporadic ; fl. March 
and beginning of Dec, 1855 ; fr. June 1856. No. 807. Leaves thinly 
coriaceous ; seeds like pepper. Near Ponte de Luiz Simées, June 
1856. Cou.. Carp. 603. 
Puneo AnNDonGo.—A slender high-climbing herb, at length hanging 
down a long distance; stem and tendrils somewhat reddish ; leaves 
herbaceous-membranous, very bright green ; flowers large, yellow. 
At the skirts of the primitive forest between Pungo Andongo and 
Candumba ; only one specimen, in male fi. April 1857. No. 819. 
6. LAGENARIA Seringe ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 823. 
1. L. vulgaris Seringe in Mém. Soc. Phys. Genév. iii. pars 1, 
p. 25, t. 2 (1825); Welw. Apont. p. 556, sub n. 129; Hook. f. in 
Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii, p. 529; Cogn. in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 
p. 417 (1881) ; Ficalho Pl. Uteis, p. 186 (1884). 
Loanpa AND Barra DO BENGO.—An annual herb, 8 ft. high, pros- 
trate procumbent or scandent far and widely, viscid-shaggy, strongly 
musk-scented ; stem flexuous, rather thick ; lobes of the leaves long- 
cuspidate ; petiole at the insertion of the leaf-blade furnished with 
two opposite conical green glands ; tendrils almost always bifid, not 
8 to 4-cleft ; flowers axillary, fasciculate or solitary, moncecious, white 
or whitish ; fruit pear-shaped, with a long neck, of great economic 
use to the negroes. In sandy bushy places at the margins of streams 
near Quicuxe and towards Cacuaco ; fl. and young fr. beginning of 
Sept. 1858. Male flowers on somewhat longer peduncles than the 
female. Calyx of the female flowers campanulate, adnate to the 
ovary, lobes of the limb linear ; corolla white, pervaded by thick green 
nerves; lobes of the corolla obovate, entire, crisp-involute on the 
margin, with long villous hairs especially inside at the base. Immature 
berry obovoid-pyriform, green, glabrous, smooth, 44 in. long, 3 in. 
in transverse diameter, 10-furrowed, obtusely 10-ribbed, white-fleshy 
inside, 3 (or sub-6) celled; flesh not turning bitter; placentas 
parietal, 2 in each cell, from the beginning separated by a membrane 
