Corallocarpus | LXIII, CUCURBITACER. 405 
In sandy bushy places, climbing on leafless Euphorbias, and on species of 
Celastrus and Cordia, between Penedo and Cacuaco, and also in Praia da 
Zamba Grande flowering and fruiting nearly throughout the year, not 
uncommon. FI. Jan, to March 1854 ; fr. April to June 1858. A winter 
form in fruit almost leafless; abundant near Penedo, June 1858. A 
variety with the lobes of the leaves elongated and very much narrowed, 
near the city of Loanda, Oct. 1858. A specimen raised from Loanda 
seeds in the garden of the Duke of Palmella at Lisbon ; fl. March 1862. 
No. 799. Climbing far and widely. Rootstock napiform ; stem and 
leaves glaucous ; fruit baccate, shaped like a grape, operculate, deep 
scarlet, At Penedo; seeds Feb. 1854, and again Sept. 1858. Cow. 
Carp. 125 and 612. A perennial herb ; stem bulbous-inflated at the 
base ; the far-climbing stem and the leaves glaucous ; flowers small, 
yellowish, rather fleshy, moncecious ; fruit grape-like, circumsciss at 
the base, opening, many-seeded, bright scarlet. Cultivated in the 
een! Garden at Lisbon from Loanda seeds ; fr. July 1860. Cox, 
ARP. 84. 
22, CYCLANTHERA Schrad.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Pl. i. 836. 
1. C. pedata Schrad. Index Sem. Hort. Gotting. anno 1831, and 
in Linnea viii., Litt.-Ber., p. 23 (1833); Cogn. in DC. Monogr. 
Phan. iii. p. 825. 
Var. £. edulis Cogn., i.c., p. 826. 
‘Loanpa.—Cultivated in the city of Loanda from seeds sent from 
Portugal ; fr. 1853-4. Cou. Carp, 613. 
23. SICYOS L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 837. 
1, S. australis Endl. Prodr. Fl. Norf. p. 67 (1833); Cogn. in 
DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. p. 875 (1881). 
S. angulatus Hook. f. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 568, non L. 
Hovitta.—A widely climbing herb ; flowers properly moncecious ; 
calyx of the male flowers campanulate, herbaceous, 5-toothed ; corolla 
campanulate, adnate to the calyx, yellowish ; stamens connate ; anthers 
1-celled, confluent into a head. Female flowers clustered in abbreviated 
cymes ; ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled. By secondary thickets in hilly, 
grassy places between Nene and Lopollo, and about the great lake of 
Ivantalla ; fl. and fr. March 1860. No. 813. 
24, GERRARDANTHUS Harv. ex Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. 
i, p. 840. Atheranthera Mast. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 519. 
1. G. Trimenii Cogn. in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. p. 937. 
Atheranthera paniculata Mast., lc. A. Welwitschit Mast. in 
Trans, Linn. Soc, xxvii. p. 640, fig. 1-5 (Nov. ? 1871). 
Punao AnponGo.—A widely scandent herb ; stems woody at the 
base, compressed, almost flattened, marked with numerous deep 
furrows; leaves rather fleshy but membranous, deep-green above, 
pale-greenish beneath with deeper-green ribs ; flowers dicecious, only 
the male ones seen, pendulous, green-yellowish, shining with a waxy 
gloss ; calyx 5-cleft, green, lobes subequal, much shorter than the 
corolla ; segments of the corolla 5, alternating with the calyx-lobes, 
the three outer ones alike, green-yellowish, the two inner ones broader 
and a little longer than the rest, concave, orange-yellow ; all obtuse, 
rather fleshy, spreading at the time of flowering; stamens 5, one 
imperfect, four perfect ; filaments thick, dilated at the apex into 
