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5. (S-7-) lobed or 6-angular lobes not acuminate pubescent or puberulous on botn 

 surfaces, fruit elongate cylindric sometimes contorted, seeds corrugate, Roxh. 

 FL Ind. iii. 701 ; Bot Mag, t. 722 ; Blume Bijd, 933 ; W. ^ A. Prodr. 350 ; 

 WaU. Cat. 6687 ; Lamk. III. t. 794 ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 677 ? ; Naud. in 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, x\iii. 91 ; Kurz in Joum. As. Soc> 1877, pt. ii, 98. 



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India, cultivated, — Distrib. China, Malaya. , , . 



Except in the fruit this agrees altogether with T. cucumerina, of which it is 

 probably a cultivated form. The fruit, used as a vegetable, is^ eminently polymor- 

 phous. Miquel places this species at the head of his InvolucraricB which he states to 

 have great leafy sheathing bracts to the male flowers, but in the Indian T. anguina 

 these bracts are minute. 



11, T. lobata, Hoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 701 ; leaves cordate orbicular 5-l6hei 

 half-way down or more lobes acuminate pubescent, fruit oblong acute, seeds 

 smooth. Wall. Cat. 6693. 



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Deccan Peninsula ; Wight ; Bottler, G. Thomson, &c. . , 



Stem and petioles with flaccid hairs. Leaves pubescent beneath, and with flaccia 

 hairs; tendrils 3-5-fid. Fruit 2-4 by 1-2 in., acute at both ends. Seeds ^^^'^^^K 

 sold, compressed, margins entire.— Probably a variety of T. cucumerina as suggested 

 by W. ^ A. Prodr. 360. T. lobata, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii- 98, having 

 the seeds tubercled (from Chittagong) is perhaps nearer T. cucumerina or T. anguina 

 as here understood : but the three snecies are difficult to separate. 



12. T. ix&tegrrlfolia, TAtrmYes ^nwm, 127, no^ o/Zwrs ; dioecious, leaves 

 glabrous nerved elliptic or ovate acuminate less often lanceolate 3-nerved entire 

 coriaceous base rounded or cordate, tendrils simplei, flowers somewhat large 

 solitary, fruit spherical shortly apiculate, seeds numerpus crowded. 



Ceylon, alt. 2000-4000 ft. ; Thwaites. . , . ' 



Leaves 2^-6 by 1^-2 in.; petiole f in. Fruit 2 in. diam., red. ?^f\\}^'l 

 smooth, oblong, oblique, compressed, truncate at the hilum, with two i^^^^'^^Yted 

 at the vertex, testa blackish green.— Not seen. The above description ^^ J^°®^ jj 

 from Mr. Thwaites, who has been careful in communicating examples to Kew oi 

 his types ; but his No. 1629 is not to be found in its place. Mr. Thwaites descno 

 no bracts to the male inflorescence, and if the male flowers are all solitary the spec 

 must be near T. dioica, Eoxb. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



T. MACRosiPHON, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1172, pt. ii. 308, from Tenasserim,^^» 

 the absence of both the male inflorescence and the fruit cannot be identitied irom 



description. 



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2-fld, leaves 3-foliolate very coriaceous, leaflets lanceolate nearly entire ^^f^.^^l^^\j 

 somewhat obovate the lateral ones unequally auricled on the outer ^^®' ."P^" iio^^-ish 

 2 in., petiolules ^ in., fruit oblong-ovate but nearly spherical red with yciA^ ,_ 



brown compressed, margin somcw^- 

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 a iragment with leaves and from Griffith's note of the fruit attacnea ^"^^^^rv^gg of 



characters appear nearly those of Telfairia, but the habit and texture are 

 Hodgs(mia\ while from Griffith's description of the fruit it appears b®^f f^,.^^ . 

 placing it provisionally in Trichosanthes. 



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