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'sfout more than 1 ft., bracts long little serrate, leaves very large. Khasia Mts. ; alt. 



'4000 ft.; Hk. /. ^ T.— Perhaps a new species, but the examples consist of male 



racemes and leaves only. No. 12,298 C. B. Clarke (Darjeeling alt. 3000 ft.) seems 



the same. 



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8. T. cordata, Hoxb. Fl Ind. iii. 703 ; leaves cordate-ovate acute entire 

 or obscurely angular-lobed hairy beneath, bracts elongate obovate entire or 

 Bcarcely serrate, fruit globose size of a small orange, seeds ^ in. scarcely angular 

 on the margins. Wall, Cat. 6686 A. , Kurz in Journ. As, Soc. 1877, pt. u. 

 99. T. tubefosa, Roxh, Ic. ined. T. palmata, Wall. Cat 6688 Y paHly, & C. 



From the base of the Eastern Himalaya in Sikkim and Assam to Pegu. Fre- 

 quent in the Khasia Terai and Cachar. 



An extensive climber. Dioecious. Leaves often 6-8 in., dentate-serrate; tendrils 

 usually 3-fid. Male peduncles usually paired, the racemed one often 8 in., stout; 

 bracts pubescent. Calyx-tube 1^ in., densely hairy -without, segments finely acumi- 

 nate. Fruit almost exactly as in T. palmata y bright red, orange-streaked, apex not 

 acute. 



Var. suhpedata ; leaves pedately lobed almost to the base. — Cachar ; C. B. Clarke. 

 — The bracts and indumentum are exactly as in the type. Judging by the descrip- 

 tion, T. macrosiphmi, Kurz in Journ, As. Soc. 1872, pt. ii. 308, differs less from T. 

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 Betimes subpeltate entire or irregularly tricuspid 



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plant unlcnbwn. ' '^ 

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Leaves glabrous coriaceous or membranous, poly- 



«tr/rt twmiug ; Leuunis z-o-nu. Jbeaves glabrous coriaceous or memurttuuuo, ^-^ 

 morphous, sometimes exactly ovate with a rounded subentire margin sometimes 

 deeply 3-cuspidate. Male peduncle 6 in. Calyx-tube f-l^ in., somewhat tomentose 



without : corolla (ex Hook, f.) greenish-white. 



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6. T. himalensis, C. B. aarke] leaves palmately 3-lobed deeply . 

 date villous or pubescent beneath, bracts lanceolate incise-serrate, fruit 3-4 in. 

 long-cylindric tapering at both ends. T. cordata, Wall, Cat. 6686 B. Cucurbita 

 ficifolia, Wall. Cat. 6721. 



Sikkim, alt. 2000-5000 ft. from Yoksun to the plains ; J, D. H., C, B, Clarke. 



ASif(?W25 extensively climbing, with the petioles and leaves pubescent and "^^^y 

 Dioecious. Leaves 5 in., usually deeply palmate, irregularly serrate; tendrils ^-^ 

 Male peduncles 3-4 in., bracts ^~l in. Calyx-tube 1^-2 in., very narrow, 1>^.^*^ ,. )7 

 without. Fruit 3-4 by 1-U in., nearly circular in section. Seeds {-i ^^' f^^' 



polymorphous, sometimes obovoid the broader part subtrimerous, sometimes — 

 shaped.— Certain seeds were sent by Dr. Anderson to Naudin, who grew^them a ^ 

 has placed the resulting leaves in the Kew Herbarium accompanied by a drawing 



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the seed, and has attached the name Platygonia hiinalensis thereto. These lea\e 



may belong to the present species. - -h ath- 



Var. glahrioT ; leaves glabrous above pubescent or scabrous on the nervesbflne - 

 —Khasia ; alt. 4000 ft. Trichosanthes sp. 9 Herb. Ind. Or., K f. i !/'— The exa_ 

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