Luffa] LXIII. CUCURBITACES. 395 
long, flattened towards the apex ; bracts beset outside with large 
circular glands ; corolla 5-partite nearly to the base, beset on the inner 
face with long thin hairs which are more densely crowded at the 
base ; corolla-segments of the male flowers obovate, obtuse, abruptly 
acuminate, 1} inch long, slightly crenate-wavy on "the margin, per- 
vaded with 3 thick nerves which form as many furrows on the inner 
face ; female flower always smaller than the male ones, with petals 
scarcely $ in. long. On_ the drier slopes near Sange, extensively 
running along the ground amidst grasses and low shrubs; fl. June 
and July ; fr. Nov. 1855. No. 800. Flowers moncecious ; fruit half 
a span long, cylindrical, but little ventricose in the middle, dry, sub- 
angular, operculate at the top. In thickets near Sange ; fr. of uly 1857. 
Coux. Carp. 148. A widely climbing herb ; seeds ; Coun. Carp. 601. 
11. CUCUMIS L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 826. 
1. C. angolensis Hook. f. ex Cogn. in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 
p. 487 (1881). Cucumis (sp.), Hook. f. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 
p. 547 
MossaMEDES.—A polymorphous plant. Insandy bushy places at the 
banks of the river Bero (Charneca da boca do Bero) ; fl. and young 
fr. July and August 1859. No. 631. 
2. C. sagittatus Peyritsch ex Wawra & Peyr. in Sitz. Ber. 
Wien, xxxviii. No. 25, p. 567 (1860); Hook. f., d.c., p. 546; Cogn., 
Z.c., p. 488. 
MossaMEDES.— Variable as to the shape and hairiness of the leaves. 
Fruit 2 in. long by 8 in. thick. In gravelly places with scanty herbage, 
along the banks of the river Bero ; sparingly in fr. July 1859. No. 830. 
3. C. Welwitschii Cogn., i.c., p. 490. 
C. hirsutus Hook. f., lc., p. 546 (partly), non Sond. 
AmpBaca.—A_ dicecious herb with tuberous perennial rootstock, 
decumbent or climbing stems, yellowish flowers, and strigose-hirsute 
ovary, but smooth fruit. In sandy wooded places, the trees chiefly 
consisting of Echinodiscus or some allied genus (cf. .dmerimnon nitidulum 
O. Kuntze ; Welw. Herb. No. 1885), between the river Lucala and 
Zamba, at an elevation of 3000 ft. sparingly ; fl. and young or nearly 
ripe fr, Oct. 1856. No. 803. 
4. C. longipes Hook. f., lc. p. 547; Cogn., 1c, p. 491. 
Loanpa.—An annual procumbent herb; the stem and very long 
branches acutely angular ; flowers moncecious, deep-yellow, the female 
ones on remarkably long peduncles ; ripe fruit as large as a pigeon’s 
egg, fleshy-juicy, with the scent and flavour of a cucumber, greenish- 
glaucescent outside, echinate with short, herbaceous, rather rigid, 
subobtuse prickles. In sandy maritime places at Praia de Zamba 
Grande, also at the back of the.city of Loanda; fl. and fr. end of August 
1858. No. 848. Fruit as large as a good-sized walnut, echinate and 
of a deep sulphur colour outside. In sea sands about Loanda; fr. 
March 1854 and again in 1858. This must be compared with the 
next species. CoLu. Carp. 605. 
CazENGo.—A rough, much branched, prostrate herb, with long 
runners ; fruit-peduncle 35 in. long ; young fruit ellipsoidal, green, 
2 in. long, 13 in. thick, as large as a small hen’s egg. In dry stony 
places at the banks of the river Luze, among sparse herbage ; sporadic; 
young fr. Dec. 1854. No. 824. 
