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alabastrum amplectantibus, late ovatis acutis, margine laceratis vel 
fimbriatis multinerviis 3 cm. longis totiusque latis. Flores J breve 
pedicellati; calyces tubuliformes apice campanulati, tubis 3 cm. 
longi, apice 1ecm. in diametro, limbis 5-lobatis, lobis laceratis 
13 mm. longis, 5 mm. latis. Corolle non satis note. 
Has. Taito: Hinan, leg. T. Kawakami et Z. Kopayasut, Juli. 
1906, (No. 1589). 
Near 7. Lepiniana Coan.; but distinguishable by the bifid 
tendrils; from 7. bracteata Coan. by the bifid tendrils and much 
lacerate bracts. Very like, or perhaps quite identical with, a 
Chinese specimen at Kew which is named Tvrichosanthes palmata 
Roxs. The type of the same species is quite different from the 
Chinese specimen and also from the present plant. The bracts 
of the type are usually entire or but a little fimbriate in the 
upper ones, while those of my plant are very deeply fimbriate. 
Trichosanthes quinquangulata Gray; Coan. Cucurbit. in DC. 
Monogr. Phanerog. III. p. 878; Merritz, in Philip. Journ. Sci. II. 
Suppl. pp. 84 et 439. 
Has. Kotosho, leg. T. Kawakami et G. Naxanara, Mart. 1906 
(No. 1065). 
Distrip. Mangsi island; the Philippines. 
Opserv. A strong trailing herb, nearly glabrous, internodes 
12 em. long, tendrils 4-divided at the apex ; leaves broadly cordate 
10 cm. long as broad, cordate at the base, acute at the apex, 
margin 5-angled, acuminate at the tips of the angles, obscurely 
very minutely and remotely serrate, or nearly entire; racemes of 
male flowers, 20cm. long, bearing flowers nearly at the apex 
of the axis, bracts conspicuous, very large nearly entire, 3 cm. 
long, embracing the flower-buds. 
