Raphanocarpus]| LXIII. CUCURBITACER. 393 
8. RAPHANOCARPUS Hook. f. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1084 (1871). 
1. R. Welwitschii Hook. f., i.c., and in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 
p. 541; Cogn. in DC. Monogr, Phan. iii. p. 427 (1881). 
MossaMEDES.—A_ prostrate, much-branched, monecious, annual 
herb ; leaves cordate ; flowers of a bright and deep orange colour ; 
peduncle of the male flowers adnate to the petiole ; ovary slender, 
elongated, crowned with the calyx-segments. In an exposed sandy 
place at the banks of the river Bero ; only one plant seen ; fl. July 
1859. No. 790. 
9. MOMORDICA Tourn., L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Pl. i. p. 825. 
1. M. cissoides Planch. ex Benth. in Hook. Niger FI. p. 370 
(1849); Hook. f. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 535; Cogn. in DC. 
Monogr. Phan. iii. p. 430 (1881). 
GoLunco ALTo.—An extensively climbing herb, apparently co 
with the habit of a Cissus ; leaves deep-green, glossy, rather rigid ; 
the male flowers calyx deeply 5-cleft, with green segments and aicley 
tube; petals 5, obovate-oblong, very obtuse, milk-white, marked 
inside at the base with a digitate black-purple spot ; stamens 3 or 
rather triadelphous, one usually bearing only one anther, the other two 
bearing two anthers on the bifurcate connective ; pollen bright-orange ; 
fruit like a small hen’s egg in size and shape, very densely echinate 
with long soft prickles, of an orange or orange-scarlet colour when 
ripe. By fences and thickets along the base of the mountains of Serra 
de Alto Queta; fl. and young fr. 9 Dec. 1855; near Ponte de Felix. 
Simoes, fr. Feb. 1855. No. 820. 
2. M. Welwitschii Hook. f., dc. p. 538; Cogn., le. p. 435. 
MossaMEDES.—In sandy places among short bushes along the 
banks of the river Bero, by no means abundant; fl. and young fr. 
14 June 1860. No. 787. 
3. M. Charantia L. Sp. Pl. edit. 1, p. 1009 (1753); Schmidt, 
Beitr. Fl. Cap. Verd. Ins. p. 272 (1852); Hook. f., dc, p. 537 ; 
Cogn., Zc., p. 436; Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 188 (1884). 
Var. 8. abbreviata Seringe in DC. Prodr. iii. p. 311 (1828); 
Cogn., lc, p. 437. 
LoanpDa.—A herb, widely scandent or prostrate, polymorphous in 
fruit and foliage. In the drier bushy pastures, principally in sandy 
places, near Penedo and throughout the district, abundant ; fl. and fr. 
March 1854 and April 1858. No. 785. In sandy pastures at Penedo, 
in company with Sousa ; seeds, Sept. 1860. Cox. Carp. 44. 
Gotunco Atto.—A green subglaucous herb, widely diffuse or 
climbing on low shrubs ; fruit as large as a pigeon’s egg, red-orange, 
pyramidately acuminate, ‘angular, with warted or crested angles ; by 
thickets in exposed places near Camilungo ; fl. and young fr. Feb. 1856. 
No. 786. Differing from the common forms by the leaves being hairy 
along the nerves; in rocky woody places in Sobato de Quilombo- 
Quiacatubia, at an altitude of 2400 ft.; fl. April 1855. No. 7860. 
A widely climbing herb ; stem furrowed, angular ; leaves grass-green, 
rough, subglaucous beneath ; in primitive forests at the spring of 
Quibélo, at the base of Serra de Alto Queta; without fl. or fr. 
19 March 1856. Apparently this species. No. 836. 
Mossamepes.—An annual or biennial herb, very extensively climb- 
ing or sometimes prostrate ; flowers pale-yellowish or yellow ; fruit of 
