404 LXIII, CUCURBITACE. [Kedrostis: 
1. K. foetidissima Cogn. in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. p. 634 (1881). 
Rhynchocarpa fotida Schrad. in Linnea xii. p. 403 (1838); 
Hook. f. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 564. 
Var. o. Perrottetiana Cogn., l.c., p. 635. Bryonia Perrotetiana 
Ser. in DC. Prodr. iii. p. 304 (1828). 
Loanpa.—A climbing herb, the whole plant very rankly fetid, the 
fetid odour persisting even in dried specimens after many years ; stem 
angular, hairy ; leaves cordate-ovate, repand, rather scabrid ; flowers 
moneecious, yellowish, the male ones seated on reduced and very 
slender peduncles, the female ones solitary or on bipartite peduncles ; 
fruit ellipsoidal, as large as a pea, conical-acuminate at the apex, 
crowned with the remains of the flower, 6- to 7-ribbed, scarlet when 
ripe, 2-celled, usually 4-seeded ; seeds obovate, all thickened on the 
margin, attenuate and bilobed at the base. In sandy bushy places 
between Maianga do Povo and Bemposta; fl. and nearly ripe fr. end 
of April 1858 (and more abundant in 1854). No. 822. 
21. CORALLOCARPUS Welw. ex Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. i. 831.. 
1. C. Welwitschii Hook. f. ex Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 
p. 32, t. 12 (1869), and in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii, p. 566; Cogn. 
in DO. Monogr, Phan. iii. p. 651 (1881). 
Rhynchocarpa Welwitschit Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat., Ser. 4, xviii. 
p. 198, t. 10 (1862). 
Loanpa.—A suffruticose, widely climbing, glaucous, succulent herb, 
the whole plant exuding a yellowish resinous juice, very tenacious of 
life (the nearly dry branchlets in the herbarium shooting afresh and 
throwing out both male and female flowers); rootstock woody, perennial; 
stem fleshy and almost turnip-shaped at the base, the parts above the 
ground slender, angular ; tendrils long, simple, closely twisted in the 
form of spirals ; flowers moncecious, axillary, yellowish-green, the male. 
ones racemose-cymose, the female ones solitary ; flowering branches, 
peduncles, and pedicels rather fleshy. In the male flower calyx tubular- 
campanulate, 5-cleft ; corolla adnately inserted on the calyx, 5-parted, 
with spreading segments ; stamens included, inserted at the base of 
the corolla-segments, (5 each bearing one anther or) 3, 2 of which 
bear 2 anthers each and are opposite to the corolla-segments, and the 
other one bears 1 anther alternating with the corolla-segments; (in one 
instance there were 3 stamens, each bearing 1 anther, and 1 stamen 
bearing 2 anthers ;) filaments flattened, rather fleshy, straight, very 
short; connective straight, produced beyond the anthers, free or in the 
2-anthered stamens connate ; anthers linear, 1-celled, straight, vertical, 
adnate to the connective on one side; pistil obsolete. In the female 
flowers calyx-tube ovoid-oblong or urceolate, adnate to the ovary ; 
limb subcampanulate, 5-cleft ; corolla-segments 5, adnately inserted at 
the sinuses between the calyx-lobes, obovate, delicately fringed and 
glandular-ciliate on the margin, } longer than the calyx-lobes,.at the 
time of flowering erect-spreading, yellowish ; stamimodes 5, rudi- 
mentary, alternating. with the corolla-segments; ovary inferior 2- or 
3-celled ; ovules several ; style terminal, nearly included, cylindrical, 
rather thick, somewhat 2- or 3-divided a little below the stigma; 
stigma large, rotate-expanded, laciniate-fimbriate. Fruit ellipsoidal- 
cylindrical, $ in. long, rather obtuse, bright scarlet, 2-celled, separating 
when ripe in a circumsciss-operculate manner from the greatly thickened 
peduncle ; seeds several, horizontal, wrapped in a coloured membrane. 
