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(1H) Fruits shortly pot landed. Connectives not produced ..... ZcJmcrix. 13 



Fruits on capillary peduncles. Connectives, produced ..... Melothria. 14 



(14) Calyx-tube short. Seeds yery many ................. TUadianflia. 7 



(15) Leaves not divided into separate leaflets. Emits small, circumcised. 



............ Actinostemma. 16 



Leaves pedately divided into 3-5 leaflets. (1C) 



(Ifi) Fruits pea-like. Leaflets serrate. Tendrils simple. . . Gynostcmnm . 15 

 I'Yuits elongate clavate. Leaflets entire ............... Alxnmilrfi. 17 



1. Trichottanthcs LINX. 



In fie FoniiOKftn &/>:<!<*:. 



( 1 ) Bracts large very conspicuous. (2) 



Bracts small or nearly none. (?>} 

 ( 2 ) Bracts fimbriate ................................... T. laccribracfro. 



Bracts not fimbriate ............................. T. quinqimngnlata. 



( 3 ) Leaves herbaceous nearly glnlirous deeply lobed ......... T. ninHilolo. 



Leaves thinly chartaceous velvety beneath, slightly lobed. 



............ T. cucumeroides. 



Trichosanthes cucumeroides MAXIM. ; MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PI. 

 Formos. p. 157 ; HAYATA, Mater. Fl. Formos. p. 117. Twining, stem striate, 

 pubescent, hairs strigose, patent, internodes 7 cm. long, tendril simple. 

 Leaves alternate, petiobite, oblong-cordate, 9 cm. long, 6 cm. broad, acute or 

 .-icuminate, at the apex, base profoundly cordate, margin remotely obscurely 

 serrate, serras mucronate, 5-nerved, lateral nerves reflexed, secondary veins 

 reaching the apex of serras, hispid and scabrous above, villosely pubes- 

 cent beneath, hispid at the nerves, petioles 2 cm. long. Fl. J : racemose, 

 racemes axillary 10 cm. long, bracts minute ; flowers funnel-shaped 8 cm. long. 

 Calyx long tubuliformed, campanulate at the apex, tubes 7 cm. long, 5- 

 dentate, teeth minute lanceolate, 3 mm. long, corolla 5-parted, 1 cm. long. 



HAB. Koshun, Takow, Hikaku. 



DISTRIB. Japan, Hongkc^ng. 



Trichosanthes laceribractea HAYATA Materials for a Flora of Formosa p. 



