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A large clim'ber. 



3-5-lobed, long-petioled ; tendrils 2-3- 



fid. Flowers large, dioecious ; males in long racemes ; bracts oblong, entire 

 deciduous; females solitary. Malb: calyx long-tubular, mouth shortly cam- 

 pan ulate, teeth 5, short; petals 5, connate at the base, very long-fimbriate ; 

 stamens 3, filaments very snort ; anthers exserted, connate, linear, one 1-celled, 

 two 2"celled, cells conduplicate. Female : calyx and corolla as in the male ; 

 ovary globose, 1-celled ; style long, stigmas 3 oblong bifid exserted ; placentas 

 3, parietal, near the base of the ovary, 2-ovulate on each side. Fruit large, 

 depressed globular, 12-grooved, flesh hard ; perfect seeds usually six, each 

 having a smaller commonly barren one attached to its side, flat-ellipsoid, with 

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Himal PL t. 1, 2, 3 ; FL d. Serres, t. 1262 ; Kurz in Jaum. As. Soc. 1877, pt. 

 ii. 97. Trichosanthes heteroclita, Roxb. Fl. Ind, iii. 705 ; Wall. Cat 6684^ 

 A, B, 0. T. grandiflora, Wall Cat. 6686 not of Blume. 



SiKKiM ; alt. 0-4000 ft. Assam. Khasia Mts. alt. 0-3000 ft. East Bbngax. 

 and Chittagong ; Pkgu and Martaban; Kurz, Pinang and Malacca. 



Stem extending sometimes 100 ft. Leaves 6-8 in. long and broad, glabrous, deeply 

 lobed; lobes entire or very sparingly denticulate, acute. Male racemes 8 in.; bracts 

 4 in. Cal^x often rusty-pubescent without, tube 3-4 by | in. Corolla-lobes 2 m., 

 brown-villous, 3-nerved without, white, tinged yellow within, ending in a fringe 4 m. 

 Fruit 4-10 in. wide, red-brown, closely tomentose. Seeds 2-3 by 1-1^ in. \ 



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 2-5-fid. Flowers dioecious less often monoecious, white ; male peduncles iisually 

 in axillary pairs, one 1 -flowered caducous, the other racemose; bracts large or 

 small or ; female flower solitary. Male : calyx long-tubular ; teeth 5, lan- 

 ceolate, entire serrate or laciniate. Corolla 6-fid nearly to the base, lobes lonf- 

 fimbriate; stamens 3; anthers almost included, connate (free in T. diotca 

 long-linear, one 1-celled, two 2-celled, cells conduplicate. Female 

 corolla as in the male. Ovary inferior, at the base of the calyx-tube, l-celled ; 

 style filiform, 3 or 6-fid at apex ; placentas 3, parietal ; ovules very inauv, 

 horizontal, half-pendulous. Fruit lanceolate or globose, smooth, acute or ob- 

 tuse at the apex. Seeds many, horizontal, packed in pulp, compressed, ellipsow; 

 sometimes angular on the margin.— Distrib. Species 20, in South-East Asia^ 

 extending through Malaya to North Australia in one direction, through China 

 to Japan in another, 



• Bracts of the male raceme large^ sheathing the flowers from a broad base. 



1. T. palmata, Soxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 704 ; leaves palmate half-way down 

 m 5 or 3-7 broad lobes (but vary fi-om angular nearly entire to deeply palmate 

 with linear-oblong lobes), bracts ovat« or obovate lacerate or strongly serrate, 

 fruit globose the size of a small orange, seeds i in. scarcely angular on t&e 

 margins. Wall Cat, 6688 excl C, F ; W. ^ A. Prodr. 350 as to a and P', 

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