Trichosanthes. | LIV. CUCURBITACEJE. 315 
in their outline, broadly cordate at the base, mostly 3 to 4 in. diameter, pal- 
= mately 3- to 7-lobed, the lobes broad, r arely reaching to the middle and 
irregularly toothed, more or less Rl RE. sid ent. Te ndrils 3-branched. 
owers in a short raceme at the end of a long slender peduncle, without 
bracts. Calyx-tube, in the young bud, short broad and rounded at tthe base; 
teeth very short and recurved. Corolla-lobes narrow-oblon . long, 
besides the fringe of long cilia. Female flowers shortly peli Calyx- 
tube attenuate above the ovary into a long slender neck. Fruit ovoid-conical, 
acuminate, not exceeding 2 in., orange-red or yellow when ve Seeds about 
8 or 10, thick but — with the margin more or less erenate.—Naud. in 
ser. 4. x 
Ashes river, F. Mueller ; bare rocky hills, Nichol Bay, Gzegory's 
sc Common in hedges, etc., in East India. 
3. T. palmata, Rov). Fl. Ind. iii. 704. A coarse climber. Leaves 
broad, palmately 3- to 7-lobed, the lobes sometimes broad and short, more 
frequently especially the central one reaching to below the middle and more 
or less sinuate-toothed ‘or lobed, pubescent. Male racemes on long stout 
peduncles, at first short and head-like, at length elongated, with a broadly 
cuneate or orbicular toothed or jagged bract at east 1 in. diameter under 
each pedicel. pua very short. Calyx-tube above 1 in. long, attentate 
i ; lobes ovate or lanceolate, aeuminate, 3 to 4 lines long. 
Petals obovate, fringed with very long cilia, Female flowers shortly pedicel- 
late. Calyx-tube abruptly contracted above the ovary. Fruit nearly globular, 
not acuminate, 2 to 3 in. diameter.— Wight and Arn. Prod. 350, with the 
synonyms adduced ; Wight, Illustr. t. 104, 105 
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| 4. T. Hearnii, 7. Muell. Herb. Of this there are two male M 
; iF, Mueller's collection under the name of 7. Hearnii. Leaves broadly 
cordate- vate, ah and sometimes obscurely si queste like those of 
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2. LAGENARIA, Ser. 
Qn m the males, and free part of it in the females, ics tir or 
mens ip with 5 e or lobes. Corolla campanulate, deeply 5-lo Sta- 
o vi n the males 3, shorter than the calyx-tube; filaments E E 
with 2 milk o one with 1 cell, the cells linear, flexuose, bordering the con- 
