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This resembles T. palmata, Roxb. and T. WalUchiana, Wight ; but the lobea of 

 the leaves are shallower and their surfaces more glabrous and not at all scabrid, 

 while the bracts of the male inflorescence are much narrower and very acuminate ; 

 and their edges, instead of being laciniate, are entire or at most obscurely dentate. 



4. Trichosanthes palmata, Koxb. Hort. Beng. (1814!) p. 70. 

 Stem stout, angled and sulcate, glabrous. Leaves thickly membranous, 

 broadly ovate or orbicular in general outline, deeply cut down to 

 about the middle into 3-7 lobes ; the lobes acute or acuminate, their 

 edges entire or denticuhite, the base deeply but usually narrowly 

 cordate; upper surface more or less scabrous or scabrid, glabrous, glan- 

 dular near the apex of the petiole, the lower glabrous or somewhat 

 pubescent, length and breadth 2-6 in. ; petiole rather slender, 1 to 3 in. 

 long ; tendrils 2- or 3-fid. Male racemes sometimes in pairs, longer than 

 the leaves, few-flowered ; bracts large, ovate to sub-orbicular, deeply 

 incised or simply serrate, glabrous or with viscid hairs ; calyx-tube 1*5 

 in. long, tomentose or glabrous, the teeth lanceolate, the edges deeply 

 serrate or laciniate. Female flower solitary, on a peduncle less than 

 1 in. long ; fruit ovoid, pointed when young, globular when ripe, J'5-2 

 in. in diara. T. palmata, Roxb. Flor. Ind. Ill, 704 ; Wall. Cat. 6688 

 (excl. C, F); W. & A. Prodr. 350 ; Wight 111. t. 104, 105 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Flor. 103. T. laciniosa, Wall. Cat. 6689 A, B. T. aspera, Heyne 

 in Herb. Bottler. T. tricuspis, Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. I, 679. T. 

 cordata, Wall. Cat. 6686 (excl. A and B). T. anguina, Wall. Cat. 6687 

 (F partly) ; Yoigt Hort. Bot. Sub. 58. T. hracteata, Kurz in Journ. 

 As. Soc. Beng. 1877, Pt. II, 99 ; Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. Ill, 375. 

 T.puhera, Blume Bijdr. 936; Ser. in DC. Prodr. Ill, 315; Roem. Syn. 

 fasc. II, 95 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. I, 675. Cncurbita Melopepo, 

 Wall. Cat. 6725. Involucraria Wallichii, Seringe in DC. Prodr. Ill, 

 318. Bryonia palmata, Wall. Cat. 6711 F. 



Perak; Fra^/ 2181, 2371, 2478, 3049 ; King's Collector 1848, 4983, 

 10579. Andamans ; King's Collector. 



The fruit wlien ripe is usually globular; but there are specimens in the Calcutta 

 Herbarium which have oval fruit like T. WalUchiana, Wight, and at the same time 

 the scabrid leaves and laciniate calyx lobes which are supposed to be characteristic 

 of this species. 



5. Trichosanthes Wallichiana, Wight in Ann. and Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. VIII, 70. Stem robust, angled and sulcate, glabrous. Leaves 

 membranous, sub-orbicular in general outline, divided half-way down or 

 more into 3-5 oblong or triangular acute lobes ; the lobes sparsely denti- 

 culate, the lower on each side sometimes lobulate, the base deeply 

 and widely cordate; both surfaces glabrous and usually smooth, the 

 upper sometimes slightly scabrid and with a few glands near the apex 

 of the petiole; length and breadth 3-7 inches, tendrils 3-fid. Male 



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