28 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsida. 



2. PTrichosanthks Hearni, F. Mull, in Benth. Flor. Austral. Ill, 

 315. Stem slender, glabrous, sulcate. Leaves membranous, broadly- 

 ovate, the apex acute or acuminate, the base deeply ai)d widely cordate ; 

 the edges rather remotely denticalate, sometimes remotely siiiuate-lobed ; 

 the upper surface glabrous and shining, the lower densely and minutely 

 pubescent, the nerves, subglabrous aud stout ; length 4-8 in., breadtli 

 3'5-6 in., petiole 1-1'75 in. Male peduncles often in pairs, axillary, 

 longer than the leaves, slender, puberulous, angled ; floriferous in the 

 upper half ; bracts linear-oblong, entire, about "25 in. long ; several of 

 the lower ones narrowly rhomboid, all pubescent, flowers under 1 in. in 

 diam. at the mouth ; calyx-tube cylindric, the mbuth narrowly infundi- 

 buliform, puberulous ; the lobes of the mouth narrow, acute. Feuiale 

 flower and fruit unknown. 



Andamans ; Kurz, King's Collector. 

 Tlie late Mr, Kurz collected a single specimen of this on Kntlancl island (in the 

 Andaman group) many years ago, and he referred it in the Calcutta Herbarium to 

 Trichosanthes reniformis, Miq. He also suggested for it the name Trichosanthes 

 herpetosjpermum, — a name which he never published. In 1890 several specimens of 

 the plant were collected near Port Mowat, on the South Andaman. Specimens of 

 this second gathering, as well as of Kurz's original gathering, were sent by me to Mr. 

 C. B. Clarke who found thut they closely resemble, and are probably identical with, 

 T. Hearni, an Australian species named by the late Baron von Miiller, and of which 

 an imperfect description was published by Mr. Bentham in his Flora of Australia. 

 And to this species I now doubtfully refer both the Andaman gatherings. 



3. Trichosanthes tricuspidata. Lour, Flor. Cochinchin. IT, 723. 

 Stem stout, sulcate, smooth, glabrous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, ovate- 

 sub-tiiangular, with from 3-5 stout triangular broad, acute or acumi- 

 nate, spreading lobes, the base broadly cordate, the edges remotely and 

 minutely denticulate or subentire, glabrous on both surfaces ; length 

 and breadth 3-5 in. ; petiole slender, 1-1-5 in. ; tendrils 3-fid. Male 

 'peduncles floriferous for half their length, longer than the leaves, stout, 

 glabrous or puberulous, 10-20 flowered; bracts thick, rigid, ovate- 

 lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, obscurely dentate or entire ; calyx-tube 

 tapering to the base, shortly but densely tomentose, the lobes caudate- 

 lanceolate with a few irregular distant teeth ; corolla 1*5 in. in diam. 

 Female flower from the same axil as the male peduncle, the tube 1*5 in. 

 long, the corolla "75 in. in diam. ; fruit ovoid when young, subglobular 

 and 2 in. in diam. when ripe, smooth, yellow with numerous small black 

 pustules, the pulp thick ; the seeds in the very centre, broadly ovate, 

 compressed, "5 in. long and '4 in. broad. Blume Bijdr. 935 ; Ser. in 

 DC. Prodr. Ill, 315 ; Roem. Syn., fasc. IT, 95 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 

 Pt. I, 676; Cogniaux in DC. Mon. Phan. Ill, 374. 



Penanq; Ci^rtis 1947. Perak ; Scortechini 376; King's Collectcyr 

 2202, 5111 ; Wray 4029. 

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