32 56. QUCURDITACTET, 
(13) Fruits shortly peduncled. — Connectives not. produced. |... , Zehnerie, 19 
Fruits on. eapillary peduncles. | Connectives produced... . Melothria, 14 
(14) Calyx-tube short. Seeds very many. ..........ses... THMadiantha. — V 
(15) Leaves not divided into separate leaflets;/— Fruits small, cireumeised. 
UESTRE o Aetinostemme. 16 
Leaves pedately divided into 3—5 leaflets. (16) 
(16) Fruits pea-like. — Leaflets serrate..— ''endrils simple. .. ('ynostemime. 15 
Fruits elongate elavate. — Leaflets entire. Alsomitra. 1T 
1l riehosanthes laww. 
Key to the Formosan Speetes. 
(1) Braets large very conspieuous. (3) 
Draets small or nearly none. (3) 
(A2 mDracissfimbristeg- ce MEL LC eR EET T. laceribractea. 
ipractsemotstimpniatc PE T. quinquangulata. 
(9) Lenves herbaceous nearly elabrous deeply lobed. ,........ T. multiloba, 
Leaves thinly chartaeeous velvety beneath, slightly lobe. 
D 1300 20 VervVE Ju eueimeroides, 
Trichosanthes eucumeroides Maxrw. ; Marsvw, ot HavsrA Enum, TI. 
Formos. p. 157 ; Hav*rA, Mater. Fl. Formos. p. 117. 'wining, stem striate, 
pubescent, hairs strigose, patent, internodes 7 em.long, tendril simple. 
Leaves alternate, petiolate, oblong-cordate, 9 em. long, 6 em. broad, aeute or 
aeuminate, at the apex, base profoundly eordate, margin | remotely  obseurely 
serate, serras  muecronate, 5-nerved, lateral nerves reflexed, secondary veins 
renching the apex of serra, hispid and seabrous above, villosely pubes- 
cent beneath, hispid at the nerves, petioles 2em.long. Fl. $: racemose, 
rieemes axillary 10 em. long, braets minute ; flowers funnel-shaped. 8 em. long. 
Calyx long tubuliformed, eampanulate at the apex, tubes 7 em.long, 5- 
dentate, teeth. minute lanceolate, 3 mm. long, corolla. 5-parted, 1 em. long. 
Har. Koshun, Takow, Hikaku. 
DisrRIB, — Japan, Hongkong, 
Trichosanthes laceribractea lyra Materials for a Flora of Formosa p. 
