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T. cordata, Wall Cat. 

 WaU. Cat, 6687 Y partly. T. bracteata, Kurz in Joum. As. Soc. 1877, pt. li. 99. 

 Cucurbita Melopepo, Wall, Cat. 6725. Involucraria Wallicbii, Sermffe in DC. 

 Trodr. iii. 318. Bryonia palmata, WaU. Cat. 6711 F. 



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From the Himalayas to Ceylon and Singapot?t=j ; very cominon in all moist 

 thickets, ascending to 5000 ft. — Disteib. Malaya, China, Japan, North Australia. 



..: Climbing often 30 ft. Dicecious so far as all the examples go, but Rfjxburgh has 

 placed it in Monoecia -without remark. Leaves 2-6 in. diam., not at all hairy beneath, 

 usually glabrous or less commonly scabrous on the nerves, often with several large 

 glands near the apex of the petiole, cordate at the base; segments dentate, serrate, 

 oiyaricate, sometimes subpinnatifid (var. incisa Heyne), usually acute (but obtuse in 

 var. sinuata, Heyne) ; petiole 1-3 in. Tendrils commonly 3-fid. Male peduncles 

 usually paired, the racemed one 6 in., naked beloTv; bracts ovate or obovate, glabrous 

 or viscid with scfittered glands or pubescent. Calyx-tube \\ in., closely tomentose or 

 glabrous; sometimes much larger in the Sikkim examples; teeth long-lanceolate, 

 sometimes dentate serrate or subpinnatifid. Fr^iit J J-2 in. diam., not acute, bright 

 red with 10 orange streaks. &ecfe very many, immersed in green pulp. — The ex- 

 treme forms of the leaves are var. laciniosa, Wight, which has the leaves palmate 

 Dearly to the base, the segments scarcely \ in. wide and sometimes subpinnatifid ; 

 and var. TkoTnsoni from Moradabad with the leaves entire and slightly 5-angular : in 



^both the leaves are coriaceous and with their petioles more or less covered with 

 scattered round white minute flat scales. The Himalayan specimens recede further 

 oy their large subsucculent flaccid leaves aud very large flowers. 



'■•'■ Var. Scotantkusy C. B. Clarke ; calyx-teeth broad-lanceolate entire, petals nearly 

 uestitute of fi.mbriatious especially in the female. 



Var. tomentosa, Heyne in Herb. Eottler ; leaves tomentose beneath divided not 

 ^orethan half-way down.— Deccan Peninsula Mts. ; Wight No. 1134, 1136 partly; 

 V. Thomson. Ceylon, alt. 2600 ft. ; Garc??i€r.— This looks like a good species but 

 the fruit and seeds are as in var. 1. This closely resembles the Australian T 

 ^uhvelutina MuelL in Herb, referred to 7! palmata by Bentham. The distribution of 



.*• palmata is extended to Japan on the faith of two examples collected by Max? 

 Juowicz. They belong to the commonest Bengal type of 1\ palniata, but bear th 

 name T. japonica, Kegel, which in Eegel Ind, Bern. 1868, p. 90, is said to have 

 solitary male flowers, and has been referred by authors to the neighbourhood of T. 

 <^cim€nna. A Trichosanthes collected in Mergui by Griffith No. 759 (No. 2532 Kew 

 I'lstrib.) has the leaves with short hairs beneatli ; otherwise resembles the var. 



. f' T. multiloba, Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii. 82 ; leaves deeply (only 

 'ialf-way down) palmate in 6 or 3-9 lobes narrowed near their base, bracts 

 ?yate or obovate deeply serrate, fruit 2-4 in. ovoid or oblong acute, seeds |-3 

 ^' more or less angular on the margins. T. grandibracteata, Kurz in Joum. 



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 ^c^? Maingay 671.— BiiiTRiB. China?. Bhamo. Japan. 



-Rambling extensively. Dicecious. Leaves 3-6 in. diam., usuallv glabrofts beneath 



^ kss commonly scabrous with scattered bristles, subcordate at the base; eegments 



errate (sometimes lobed), ascending, less divaricate than in T. palmata, acute; 



Petiole 1-3 in,^ Qft^jj ^;^j^ several large glands near the apex; tendrils commonly 



^^-fid. Jiaig peduncles usually paired, the racemed one 6 in., naked below, Calyx- 



^2f^-H in.; teeth lanceolate-subulate, entire. Fruit bright red with orange streaks. 



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