Melothria| LXIII, CUCURBITACEA, 403 
stem fleshy-thickened at the base ; leaves white-punctate or white- 
papillose on both faces. In the forests of Quib6lo; without either fl. 
or fr. April 1856. No. 8445. 
5. M. racemosa Cogn., l.c., p. 617. 
Zehneria racemosa Hook. f., lc. p. 561. 
HuiitLa.—A very rough and mostly prostrate, dicecious herb ; lobes 
of the leaves varying greatly in breadth, in some forms much narrowed. 
In the drier stony hilly thickets among low shrubs near Nene and the 
village of Lopollo ; fl. Nov. and Dec. 1859 ; in neglected plots formerly 
cultivated near Mumpulla, Oct, 1859 ; in less dense thickets between 
Eme and the lake of Ivanialla, fr. Feb. 1860. No. 814 and Cot. Carp. 
611. In rocky places among short bushes in Sobato de Humpata, 
between Humpata and Serra de Oiahuia, fl. and fr. Feb. 1860. No. 817. 
6. M. maderaspatana Cogn., lc., p. 623. 
Cucumis maderaspatanus I. Sp. Pl., edit. 1, p. 1012 (1753). 
Bryonia scabrella L. f. Suppl. Pl. p. 424 (1781). Maukia scabrella 
Arn. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iii.p. 276 (1841) ; Hook. f., Lc, p. 561. 
Lisonco.—A prostrate or scandent herb; flower yellow ; fruit 
scarlet when ripe. In bushy fields formerly cultivated, near Libongo, at 
Arimo do Senhor Freire ; fr. and only one fl. seen, Sept. 1858. No. 840. 
GoLunco ALTO,—An ashy-green herb, rough in all parts with harm- 
less prickles; stems climbing widely and far; flowers moncecious, 
yellowish ; fruit at first pale-green, pea-shaped, striate with dull-green 
bands, when ripe brilliantly scarlet, soft, juicy. By the shorter thickets 
on rather dry slopes about Canatlo and Camilungo; fl. and fr. Feb. 
1856. Also on dry declivities at the base of Serra de Alto Queta ; fr. 
8 Oct. 1855. No. 845. 
19. DACTYLIANDRA Hook. f. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 557. 
Bryonia,subgenus Dactyliandra Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 829. 
1. D. Welwitschii Hook. f., 7.c.; Cogn. in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 
p. 626. 
Loanpa.—A tender, deep-grass-green, annual herb, 2 to 33 ft. high or 
more, climbing far and high; flowers moneecious, whitish, white- 
yellowish, or nearly white; unripe fruit spherical, as large as 
a good sized pea, green ; ripe fruit baccate, cherry-shaped, cinnabar- 
red. In thickets on a sandy-clay soil near Penedo, sparingly ; 
fl. and young fr. beginning of Dec. 1857. In the denser thickets and 
by the old tamarind trees between Praia de Zamba grande an Cabo 
Lombe ; fl. and ripe fr. May 1858. Also in rather dry thickets tween 
Imbondeiro dos Lobos and Bemposta ; fr. June. No. 833. Perennial, 
scandent ; berries scarlet, exactly spherical; in maritime thickets, 
August 1858. Cot. Carp. 157. Near Penedo; fr. Dec. 1857. Co.u.* 
Carp. 610. 
MossamMepeEs.—A climbing herb ; stem angular, subscabrid, furrowed, 
deep-green as well as the scabrid leaves ; flowers moncecious, rather 
small, green outside, from white to yellowish inside. By fences and 
thickets and in plots formerly cultivated, near Cavalheiros; fl. and 
young fr. 14 June 1860. No. 832. 
20. KEDROSTIS Medic. Phil. Bot. ii. p. 69 (1791). Rhyncho- 
carpa Schrad. (1838) ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 831. 
