394 LXIII. CUCURBITACEE. [Momordica 
a brilliant orange colour, always softly echinate; very abundant at 
the sandy banks of the river Giraul and rarer by the river Bero ; 
fl. and fr. July 1859. More abundant than If Welwitschii Hook. f. 
No. 788. 
CaPE DE VERDE IsLANDS.—In sandy maritime places near Villa da 
Praya in the island of Santiago ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1861. No. 789. 
4. M. Balsamina L. Sp. PL, edit. 1, p. 1009 (1753) ; Hook. f., l.c., 
in Oliv. p. 537; Cogn., dc, p. 439. 
BENGUELLA.—Cultivated from Portuguese seeds, June 1860. Portu- 
guese name “ Balsamina conica da pequena.” Seeds. Cot. Carp. 604, 
5. M. multiflora Hook. f., Jc, p. 540; Cogn., ie. p. 449. 
Gotunco Atto.—A_ high-climbing deep-green herb, apparently 
monecious. In moist forests at the river Moio (Muio) in Sobato de 
Quilombo-Quiacatubia, rare; im unopened fl. and young fr. July 
1856. On Musondo (Pseudospondias microcarpa Engl.). No. 843. 
6. M. Schimperiana Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, p. 23 
(1866) ; Cogn., Lc, p. 453. 
M. cucullata Hook. f. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 538. 
GoLtuneo Azto.—An annual, bright-green, moncecious herb, ex- 
tensively and intricately climbing on shrubs, but to no great height ; 
sometimes spreading over the ground ; runners very long, intricate ; 
petiole winged-channelled, broad, decurrent on the acutely angular 
stem ; involucre of the male flowers boat-shaped ; flowers white or on 
weak individuals almost of a citron-sulphur colour, coloured at the 
bottom with velvety-purple spots ; calyx hispid, black ; petals obovate- 
oblong, some a little narrower than the rest, at the time of flowering 
spreading in a campanulate form, from whitish to very pale sulphur- 
colour or almost milk-white, the three opposite to the triadelphous 
stamens marked inside at the base with a black varnished-glossy spot, 
all moreover yellow at the base inside; stamens 5, triadelphous; 
fruit oblong, as large as a hen’s or goose’s egg, deep-yellowish, clothed 
with long soft bristles of the same colour or brilliantly scarlet turning 
to orange-vermilion. By thickets in hilly situations among the 
mountains of Alto Queta, not uncommon, fl. and young fr. March 1856 ; 
along the base of the mountains of Queta, male fl. beginning of 
Dec. 1855. No. 809. Flowers sulphur-yellow, atropurpureous at the 
bottom ; berry as large as a goose’s egg, 3-valved, densely beset with 
long soft cinnabar-orange prickles. Near Sange, Jan. 1856; seeds. 
Doubtfully identified. Cont. Carp. 151.. 
10. LUFFA Tourn., L., Adans.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 823. 
1, L. egyptiaca Mill. Gard. Dict. edit. 8 (1768); Hook. f. in 
Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 530; Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 187 (1884). 
L. cylindrica Roem. Syn. fasc. 2, p. 63 (1846); Cogn. in DC. 
Monogr. Phan. iii. p. 456 (1881). 
CazENGo.—A handsome herb, climbing high on shrubs; fruit 
cylindrical when young and quite green. In moist wooded situations 
with tall bushes near Palmira, very sparingly ; fl. and young fr. 
Dec. 1854, No. 818. 
GoLunco ALtTo.—Flowers said to be moneecious, but the individual 
plants seen by Welwitsch were usually wholly female. Stems 
acutely angular ; peduncles of the male flowers sulcate-angular, 8 in. 
