30 Materials f 07- a Flora of the Malayini Venin^nla. 



peduncles at first shorter than the leaves, elongating with age ; bracts 

 oblong-ovate, theii' edges laciniate ; calyx-tube glabrous, the teeth 

 spreading, entire; petals obovate, laciniate. Female floiuer solitary, 

 fruit ellipsoid, obtuse, smooth, 2-4 in. long. Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. 

 Ill, 368. Involucraria Wallichiana, Ser. in Mem. Hist. Nat. Greueve III, 

 Pt. I, 25 t. 5; in DC. Prodr. Ill, . 318 ; Roem. Sjn. fasc. 2, p. 98. 

 Trichosanthes multiloba, Clarke in Hook. fil. Flor. Br. Ind. II, 607 (not of 

 Miq.). T. grandibracteata, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLYI, 98, 99. 



Pahang ; Bidley 244. Singapoke ; Ridley 296, 446, 4762. Penang ; 

 Curtis 2004. Perak ; Scortechini 508 and 600. 



A species scarcely separable from T. puoera, BL, of which in ray opinion it 

 would better be treated as a variety. 



6. Trichosanthes Wawr^i, Cogn. in DC. ' Mon. Phan. Ill, 384. 

 Stem slender, sub-glabrous, sulcate. Leaves membranous, trifoliolate 

 or simple ; leaflets of the trifoliolate form unequal, the middle one 

 oblanceolate, the lateral ones angularly auriculate or lobulate at the 

 base on the outer side, the edges of all subentire or sparsely denticulate 

 and the apices much acuminate, all with slender petiolules •25-*3 

 in. long ; the lower surface reticulate when dry, glabrous, the upper 

 sparsely and minutely pustulate and glabrous ; length of the leaflets 

 2*5-5 in., breadth *75-I"5 in., petiole l"25-2 in. ; the simple form 

 triano-ular-oblong, tapering gradually to the apex, the base with 2 short 

 sub-horizontal lobules, length 2*5-5 in. ; tendrils short, simple or bifid. 

 Male peduncles shorter than the leaves, very stout, sulcate, glabrous, 

 many-flowered ; bracts small, oblong, their edges with a few long teeth, 

 the flowers extending for half their length ; calyx "5 in. long, narrowly 

 carapanulate, suddenly contracted into the tube, the teeth erecto- 

 patent or recurved, lanceolate, acuminate, entire. Female flower with 

 cylindric tube slightly dilated at the apex, the teeth as in the male; 

 petals white, yellowish at the base, oblong, 3-nerved, the fimbrige long, 

 the external surface minutely papillose ; ovary, glabrous, ovoid-oblong ; 

 fruit subglobular when young, oblong when ripe, smooth, red with 

 orano-e or white stripes ; seeds compressed, oblong-ovoid, '6 in. long. 



Perak; King's Collector 2203, 4519, 4668, 5380, 5405, 10176. 

 Wray 2382 ; Scortechini. (Singapore ; Waivra 241 in Herb. Vindob. 

 fide Cogniaux.) 



Cogniaux describes this as having its leaves always trifoliolate. But in some 

 of the Perak specimens both trifoliolate' and simple leaves as above described are 

 to be found ; in a few only simple leaves, and in the majority only trifoliolate. 



7. Trichosanthes Celebica, Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. Ill, 385. 

 Stem slender, glabrous, sulcate, sometimes hairy at the nodes. Leaves 

 coriaceous, trifoliolate ; the leaflets unequal in size, the middle one 



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