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Bi-acta small ovate-lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, 

 obscurely dentate, leaves quite smooth and glab- 

 rous on both surfaces ... ... ... 3. T. tncuspidata. 



Bracts very large, ovate to sub -orbicular, deeply 

 incised or simply sex-rate; calyx-teeth lanceolate; 

 fruit usually globular, rarely ovate ... ... 4. T. palmata. 



Bracts rather large, oblong-ovate, laciniate; calyx- 



teetli spreading, entire ; fruit always ellipsoid ... 5. T, Wallichiana. 

 Leaves usually trifoliolate, but sometimes simple on the 

 same or different plants ; leaflets membranous, unequal, 

 much acuminate, the edges undulate-dentate : bracts of 

 male inflorescence small, oblong, their edges with a few 

 long distant teeth ... ... ... ... 6. T. Wawrxi. 



Leaves always trifoliolate ; leaflets coriaceous, shortly and 

 bluntly apiculate or subacute, the edges quite entire ; 

 bracts of male inflorescence deltoid, their edges pectinate 7. T. celehica. 



1. Trichosanthes cucuMEUiNA, Linn. Sp. PI. Ed. 1, 1008. Stems 

 slender, angled, puberulous. Leaves menibranous, orbicniar-reniform to 

 broadly ovate in general outline ; the edges remotely denticulate, often 

 more or less deeply 3-5 or 7-lobed ; the lobes broad with acute but not 

 acuminate apices and often sinuate margins, the base deeply cordate, 

 the sinus often sub-rectangulnr ; upper surface sparsely piibescent or 

 sub-glabrous, the lower deciduously pubescent at first, ultimately sub- 

 scabrid ; length 2-4 in. and breadth about the same ; petiole 1-2 in., 

 pubescent ; tendrils slender, sulcate, puberulous, 2-3-fid. Male peduncles 

 rather longer than the leaves, pubescent, bearing a few flowers towards 

 the apex, ebracteate. Floivers '5-1 in. in diam. at the mouth; tho 

 tube 2 or 3 times longer, cylindric, a solitary male flower sometimes 

 from the same axil as the peduncle. Female flower on a peduncle *5 in. 

 long, fruit 1-3 in. long, narrowly ovoid, the apex conical, red when ripe ; 

 seeds half ellipsoid, compressed, corrugated. Lour. Flor. Cochchin, 

 588; Ser. in DC. Prodr. 111,315; Roxb. Hort. Beng. 70; Hoxb. Flor. 

 Ind. Ill, 720; Wall. Cat. 6690 A, B, C, D, F; Blume Bijd. 983; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Flor. 102 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. I, 676 ; 

 Naud. in Ann. So. Nat. Ser. 4, XVIII, 191; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 

 1877, Pt. 11, 98; W. & A. Prodr. 350; Mfq. Flor. Ind. Bat. T, Pt. 

 I, 676; ThwMites Enum. PI. Ceyl. 126; Benth. Flor. Austral. Ill, 314; 

 Clarke in Hook. fil. Flor. Br. Ind. II, 609 ; Cogn. in DC. Men. Phan. 

 Ill, 358. T. laciniosa, Klein in Herb. Bottler. T. pilosa, Wall. Cat. 

 -6691. Bryonia umhellata, Wall. Cat. 6700 D. Cucumis Missioms, Wall. 

 Cat. 6728. 



Perak; King's Collector 5622. Distrib. Malayan Archipelago; 

 British India. 



The Perak plant has larger flowers than any Indian specimen, atid I refer it to 

 r, cucumerina with sonie htsitatiun. 



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