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In some specimens of Wight, cat. n. 1129. the bracteas are woolly on the 
outside. 
1088. (4) M. mixta (Roxb.:) diccious: root tuberous, perennial: stems 
glabrous: leaves 3-5-lobed or palmate, glabrous; lobes oblong, nearly quite 
entire, or sometimes toothed ; petioles and margin of the leaves near their 
base, furnished with several large umbilicated glands: peduncles (both male 
and female) with a large cucullate bracteole close to the flowers and enclosing 
its lower part ; the bracteoles emarginate, a little scabrous, particularly on the 
margin near the base where the hairs proceed from glands: calyx campanu- 
late: petals ovate: fruit (6-8 inches long and 3-4 thick) oval, sharply muri- 
cated.— Roxb. hort. Bengh. p. 70; fi. Ind. 3. p. 709; in E. I. C. mus. tab. 
993; Wight! cat. n. 1130.—M. cochinchensis, Spr. syst. 3. p. 14.—Muricia 
cochinchensis, Lour. coch. 2. p. 733. : 
Our specimens were obtained from the Madras herbarium, without any 
name or locality affixed. Roxburgh says it is a native of the thickets about 
Calcutta, but we do not observe it mentioned in Wallich’s List. Our de- 
scription of the fruit is taken from Roxburgh's drawings: the seeds are repre- 
sented orbicular, about fully three-fourths of an inch in diameter. 
t 1089. (5) M.? Heyneana (Wall.)—Wall. L. n. 6744. 
+1090. (6) M. humilis (herb. Madr.)—Wall. L. n. 6747. 
IX. TRICHOSANTHES. Linn. 
Flowers moneecious, rarely dicecious—Matr. Calyx somewhat clavate, 
5-cleft ; segments subulate. Corolla 5-partite, ciliated. Stamens 5, triadel- 
phous. Anthers very flexuose.—Fxw. Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla 5-partite, 
čut and ciliated. Style 3-fid. Stigmas oblong-subulate. Peponida oblong : 
or globose. Seeds imbedded in pulp.—Male flowers usually racemose, rare- 
ly solitary : female generally solitary, rarely racemose. 
.The genus Involucraria of Seringe (Mem. sur les Cucurb. t. 5) is scarcely dis- 
tinet from Trichosanthes, and is very closely allied to T. palmata, T. globosa, Blume, 
and T. heteroclita, Roxb. ; these species, as well as T. cordata Roxb. (T. tuberosa, 
Roxb. in E. I. C. mus. tab. 1691), having large bracteas on the raceme of male flow- 
ers. From the specimens being much too little advanced, Seringe's figure represents 
the bracteas and flowers as forming a short head instead of racemes. 
Subgen. 1. EvrricnosantuEs.—Bracteas on the male racemes minute, many 
times shorter than the pedicels.. Filaments and anthers triadelphous. 
1091. (1) T. nervifolia (Linn.:) stem nearly glabrous and smooth: leaves 
HERES ein Roce 2 sharply bristle-toothed, glabrous and 
smooth, marked beneath with the prominent nerves and veins : tendrils bifid : 
male flowers long-pedicelled on a very short simple or sometimes branched 
peduncle: female solitary : fruit ovate.—DC. prod. 3. p. 314; Spr. syst. 3. p. 
17; Wight ! cat. n. 1131.— Rheed. Mal. 8. t. 17——Malabar. 
. +1092. (2) T. cuspidata (Lam.:) leaves cordate-acuminated, sharply 
toothed, marked beneath with the prominent nerves and veins: tendrils sim- 
ple: female flowers solitary : fruit turbinate-ovate, terminated by the tube . 
of the calyx.— Lam. enc. meth. 1. p. 188 ; DC. prod. 3. p. 314.—T. caudata, 
Willd. sp. 4. p. 600 ; Spr. syst. 3. p. 17.—Rheed. Mal. 8. t. 16.—Malabar. 
This species has been seen by no modern botanist, the descriptions being 
all taken from Rheede. We suspect that the figure was made from a young 
plant, an opinion which is confirmed by the diminutive seeds ; and, if we be 
correct, there is nothing to prevent this species being considered identical 
with the last, the tentials of which sometimes also appear simple by the al- 
most total abortion of one of their divisions. 
