+ 
Cucumis] LXIII. CUCURBITACEA, 397 
marked with whitish rather broad longitudinal streaks and green and 
yellow spots, 3-celled ; seeds, 19 June, 1859. Co. Carp. 76. 
MossaMEDES.—An annual much-branched herb, very widely diffuse, 
prostrate ; flowers yellow ; fruit ellipsoidal, as large as a walnut, 
turning yellow, beset all over with herbaceous prickles and marked 
above with longitudinal brown-purple bands. In the gravelly beds of 
dried up streams in the desert between Cabo Negro and A Cazimba, 
in the region of the sea-coast ; fr. 3 Sept. 1859. No. 828. 
7. CO. metuliferus E. Mey. ex Schrad. in Linnea xii. p. 406 
(1838); Naud. in Ann. Se. Nat., Ser. 4, xi. p. 10 (1859); Hook. 
f., le. p. 543; Cogn., lc, p. 499. 
AmMBRIz.—In sandy thickets at the river Quizembo, near Quizembo ; 
male fl. Nov. 1853. No. 839. 
GoLunco ALTO.—Fruit from yellow-orange to cinnabar-red, echinate 
with black-green or glaucescent spines. In bushy wooded places at the 
banks of the river Quiapoze, near Sange ; fl. and nearly ripe fr. June 
and Aug. 1856. No. 850. <A herb, climbing far and high, with yellow 
flowers. At the borders of forests in wooded hilly places in Sobato de 
Mussengue ; fl. May 1856. No. 8500. 
Punco ANDoNGO.—Scandent in secondary woods by the denser 
thickets between Candumba and Calundo-Caquette ; young fr. Jan. 
1857. No. 825. 
8. C. dipsaceus Ehrenb. in Spach, Hist. Nat. Vég. Phan. vi. p. 
211 (1838) ; Hook. f., ie, p. 543; Cogn., de, p. 500. 
Loanpa and Icoto 5 Benco.—An annual prostrate herb, with the 
habit almost of C. Melo L. ; flowers moncecious ; corolla gamopetalous, 
campanulate, yellow ; stamens 3 ; anthers sinuous-linear, adnate to the 
connective on the outer side below its apex ; ovary in the male flowers 
rudimentary, in the female flowers cylindric-oblong, thinly tomentose. 
In waste places in the city of Loanda ; fl. and fr. middle of July 1858, 
wild. In sandy places by the river Bengo, at Foto, etc., Sept. 1857. 
No. 849. 
Welwitsch states that the plant is frequently cultivated in gardens 
near the river Bengo: with reference to this statement Ficalho, Pl. 
Uteis, p. 189 (1884), considers that there may have been some con- 
fusion between this species and wild forms of C. Melo L.; this is the 
more probable, inasmuch as Welwitsch included under the same No. 
a specimen from Imbondeiro dos Lobos, in the same district, cultivated 
26 March 1858, which he called C. Melo L. 
9. C. subsericeus Hook. f., l.c., p. 545; Cogn., 1c, p. 506. 
Pungo ANDONGO.—Seeds surrounded by a thickened border. In 
sandy bushy places at the banks of the river Cuanza, sporadic ; fl. and 
fr. March 1857. Also a weaker specimen in rocky rough places near 
Sansamande. No. 838. 
12. COLOCYNTHIS L. Syst. edit. 1 (1735); Tourn. ex Quer, FI. 
Espan. iv. p. 389 t. 54 (1764). Citrudlws Forsk. (1775) ; Bentb.. 
& Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p, 826. 
1. C. amarissima Schrad. Ind. Sem. Hort. Gotting. p. 2 (1833). 
Cucurbita Citrullus L. Sp. PL, edit. 1, p. 1010 (1753). Citrullus 
vulgaris Schrad. ex Eckl. & Zeyh. Enum. Pl. Afr. Austr. (pars ii.) 
p. 279 (1836) ; Hook. f. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 549; Cogn. in 
