400 LXIII, CUCURBITACEA, [Physedra 
Sobato de Bumba, not uncommon; male and female fl. middle of 
Oct. 1855; fr. Feb. 1856 and June 1857. No. 791. 
Var. Hookeri. Var. 8 Hook. f., le. 
Leaves subdigitately 7-lobed below the middle, acutely serrate 
with long points to the serratures, and the lobes terminating in 
longer slender tails. 
Go.tunco ALTo.—A much-branched almost frutescent herb, climb- 
ing far and widely, apparently rarely in flower. Along fences against 
primitive forests near Ponte de Felix Simoes, sporadic: fl. Dec. 1855. 
No. 792. 
The following numbers from the carpological collection appear 
to belong to this species; they consist of seeds which show the 
character of a deciduous filamentous coat, giving many of the 
seeds a shaggy appearance, while other seeds are quite smooth :— 
GoLtunGo ALtro.—An apparently perennial herb, climbing far and 
widely; leaves glaucescent, rigid; flowers yellow, fleshy; fruit 
ellipsoidal, orange-coloured, marked with green longitudinal bands. 
By fences and thickets near Ponte de Felix Simoes ; seeds Feb. 1856 
(and June 1857). Con. Carp. 144 and 147. Climbing on Punica 
granatum L., Welw. Herb. No. 2333, in the convent near Bango ; seeds 
beginning of May 1856. Coxu. Carp. 152. Fruit baccate, 1 to 14 in. 
long, oblong-subpyriform, variegated yellow and green and marked 
with green bands, quickly becoming putrid ; seeds Cott. Carp. 619. 
15. RAPHIDIOCYSTIS Hook. f. in Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. 
Pl. i. p. 828. 
1. R. Welwitschii Hook. f., 2c. and in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 
p. 554; Cogn. in DC. Monogr. Phan. iti. p. 527. 
Gotunco ALTo.—A herb, climbing far and widely, apparently 
perennial, moncecious ; leaves rather rigid, prettily green, very variable 
in indumentum but fairly constant in shape; male flowers seen on 
only a very few specimens ; ripe fruit spherical, echinate with dense 
brilliantly purple-red bristles, deeply purple-red even in the densest 
forests, a remarkable ornament to the primitive forests, filled with a 
nearly dry pulp. In the denser primitive forests of Sobato de 
Mussengue, not uncommon but rarely seen in flower; in female fl. and 
nearly ripe fr. March 1855 ; in female fl. and very few male fl. in the 
same locality, end of March 1855. Also in the thickets of Serra de 
Alto Queta, but never seen in fl., June 1856. No. 810. 
16. COCCINIA Wight & Arn. Prodr. (i) p. 347 (1834). Ce 
phalandra Schrad. (1836); Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 827. 
1. C. decipiens Cogn. in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. p. 539 (1881). 
Cephalandra decipiens Hook. f. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 552. 
Pungo Anponco.—A bright-green, rather flaccid, climbing herb ; 
flowers yellow ; fruit baccate, as large as a hazel-nut, ovoid-conical, 
mucronate with a short acumen, green, at length orange-coloured, 
variegated with white spots, 3-celled; cells few-seeded. In sandy 
grassy places at the skirts of thickets between Catete and the forest 
of Quilanga, extensively climbing among grasses; in female and few 
male fl. and with young fr. beginning of May 1857. No. 816. \Fruit 
ovoid-conical, spotted with white; seeds scarcely ripe; May 1857. 
Co... Carp. 618. 
