Colocynthis| LXIII., CUCURBITACEA, 399 
The various varieties of this species, both wild and cultivated, 
especially about Loanda, are called “ Quixibua,” in plural ‘“ Maxibua,” 
a name which in Pungo Andongo is used for Ampelocissus urenefolia 
Planch. 
The following numbers from the carpological collection appear 
to belong to Colocynthis amarisissima Schrad :— 
IcoLo E Ben@o.—Seeds of “ Abobora branca,’”’ March 1858. Co xu. 
Carp. 164. 
Houiiia.—Seeds surrounded by a black border. Near Lopollo, Feb. 
1860. Cob. Carp., 50. A wild sort of “ melancia” in the arimo. 
(cultivated field) of Kneisman ; seeds, March 1860. Cont. Carp. 79. 
2. C, vulgaris Schrad. Ind. Sem. Hort. Gotting. p. 2 (1833) 
Cucumis Colocynthis L, Sp. Pl., edit. 1, p. 1011 (1753). 
Citrullus Colocynthis Schrad. in Linnea xii. p. 414 (1838); 
Hook. f. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 548; Cogn. in DC. Monogr. 
Phan. iii. p. 510 (1881); Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 190 (1884). 
Fruiting specimens of the true Colocynth obtained for comparison 
with the Angolan species of Citrullus. Cox. Carp. 608. 
The seeds are not used medicinally in Angola. 
13. CUCUMEROPSIS Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 5, v. p. 30: 
(1866). Zehneria Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 830 (partly). 
1, C. edulis Cogn. in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. p. 518 (1881). 
Cladosicyos edulis Hook. f. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 534 ; 
Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 188 (1884). 
Gotuneo ALTo.—Ripe fruit subclavate-cylindrical, a foot long, 3 in. 
in diameter, eaten by the negroes. At the bushy margins of primitive 
forests in Sobato de Mussengue; fl. May, fr. July 1856. Also near 
Camilungo; male fl. Dec. 1855. No. 808. 
Cott. Carp. 617 consists of seeds, whitish glossy, flattened, ellipsoidal, 
2 in. long, 2 in. broad, smooth, not bordered, said to belong to an 
edible fruit 5 to 7 in. long and 3 to 33 in. in transverse diameter: they 
possibly belong to this species, which, however, seems usually to have 
a longer fruit and smaller seeds. The seeds were collected in GoLUNGO- 
ALTO, at Sange, in July 1856. 
14. PHYSEDRA Hook. f. in Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. 1. p. 827. 
1. P. heterophylla Hook. f. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 553; 
Cogn. in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. p. 524 (1881). 
Go.tunco ALtTo.—A succulent herb or undershrub, very widely 
climbing, the whole plant tinged with « glaucous hue, perennial, 
dicecious, with the habit almost of a Passiflora ; leaves remarkably 
polymorphous, undivided and triangular or 3- to 5-lobed, bright- 
green, thick, tender, rather fleshy, rigid, not coriaceous, easy to dry ; 
corolla sordid-orange in colour, rather fleshy, 5-lobed, clothed inside 
with long papille; anthers 3, very thick, cbovoid-cordate ; filaments 
short ; fruit oblong-subpyriform, 1 to 14 in. long, at first variegated 
with yellow and green, when ripe orange-coloured, with longitudinal 
green bands, quickly putrescent. In rugged places at the river 
Delamboa, in company with Coffea melanocarpa Welw.; without fi. 
Sept. 1855, in flower bud Jan. 1856; also along the banks of the 
stream Casaballa, among tall bushes, at the base of the mountains in. 
