Coccinia] LXIII, CUCURBITACEA. 401 
2. Coccinia ? sp. n? 
A scandent herb; branchlets hispid with spreading hairs ; 
tendrils bifid, subglabrescent, elongated ; fruiting peduncle thick, 
glabrate, 33 to 4 in. long; fruit baccate, cylindrical-ellipsoidal, 
obtusely pointed at the apex, very nearly 3 in. long, orange- 
coloured, rather shining, quite smooth; seeds numerous, com- 
pressed, obovate, nearly 3 in. long, } in. broad, margined, 
obscurely scrobiculate, exalbuminous. 
GoLunco ALTO.—In thickets near Cambondo, abundantly, but only 
one fruit seen ; without either leaves or fl. June 1855. No. 837 and 
Cou. Carp. 615. 
17, CUCURBITA L.; Benth. é& Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 828. 
1. C. maxima Duchesne in Lam. Encycl. Méth. ii. p. 151 (1786); 
Hook. f. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 555; Cogn. in DC. Monogr. 
Phan. iii. p. 544 (1881); Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 191 (1884). 
Gotunco ALTO.—Fruit 1} to 24 ft. long, 1 to 13 ft. in transverse 
diameter, variegated with pale-yellow as in the European examples. 
Frequently cultivated almost throughout the district both by the 
negroes and by the colonists for the sake of its edible fruit ; fl. and 
young fr. end of Feb. 1856. Native name “ Dinhdngoa.” No. 801. 
Fruit subspherical, variegated yellow and green, outside marked with 
numerous obtuse ribs almost like a melon, wine-red inside, eaten by 
the negroes and Portuguese colonists ; flesh somewhat dry but edible 
and not unpleasant. Frequently cultivated in the district; seeds, 
March 1856. Native name “ Dinhangoa.” Co.u. Carp, 145. 
2. C. Pepo L. Sp. Pl, edit. 1, p. 1010 (1753) ; Hook. f. in Oliv. 
Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 556 ; Cogn., 1c, p. 545; Ficalho, Zc, p. 192. 
Loanpa.—F requently cultivated ; seeds, Aug. 1858. Cot. Carp. 609. 
Huvitia.—Moneecious, prostrate, running out along distance ; leaves. 
broad, deeply quinquepartite in a palmate manner, the outer lobes bifid, 
the intermediate ones narrowed towards the base ; fruit as large as 
a little child’s head, bi-pyramidately ellipsoidal, deeply furrowed at the 
base, coarsely ribbed in the middle ; skin hard, woody, of a pale sulphur 
colour outside, occasionally beset with small but little-prominent warts, 
filled inside with a white rather juicy flesh, very good to eat, with 
scarcely a gourd flavour. Cultivated by some colonists at Lopollo. 
from seeds introduced fresh from Portugal; fl. and fr. April 1860. 
No. 812. Delicious when boiled and better in flavour when in addition 
roasted ; even the leaves are prepared like spinach and eaten ; seeds, 
June 1860. Coiu. Carp. 174. Generally and largely cultivated in 
the district ; well flavoured when cooked and preserved. Portuguese 
name, ‘‘Abobora.” Feb. and May 1860. Cou. Carp. 48. 
Co... Carp. 614 consists of seeds, perhaps of a hybrid form of this 
species, sent to Welwitsch under the name of “ Aboboras pequenas 
bonitas” from gardens at Oporto in North Portugal, where it is 
cultivated as an ornamental plant. 
3. C. moschata Duchesne ex Poir. in Dict. Sc. Nat. xi. p. 234 
(1818); Hook. f., Zc, p. 556; Cogn., Lc, p. 546. 
Loanpa.—A large, procumbent, moncecious, annual herb, with the 
habit of C. Pepo L.; flowers large, yellow, axillary, solitary ; the 
male flowers with longer peduncles than the female ones ; calyx after 
flowering circumsciss at the neck ; anthers 1-celled ; stigmas bipartite, 
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