56. GQUCUDPITACERT, 99 
117. Seandent subelabrous, stem striate, suleate, internodes 12 em. long, tendrils 
opposite the leaves, 2-fid. Leaves alternate, petiolate, broadly cordate, 15 em. 
long as broad, aeute at the apex, base profoundly broadly cordate, slightly 
3—5-lobate, (terminal lobe triangular, 6 em. long as broad) margin obseurely 
remotely mueronately servate, 5  nerved, 3-central nerves erect, 2-basal 
ones reflexed, all nerves reaching the apex of lobes, above nigricant albo- 
punetate mostly seabrous, beneath shortly hispid, petioles 4cm.long.  Ra- 
cemes axillary, flowering towards the apex, flowers bracteate, bracts large em- 
braeing  flower-buds, broadly ovate aeute, margin laeerate or fimbriate 
multinerved 3 em.long as broad. Flowers f$: shortly pedicellate, ealyx tubuli- 
formed eampamnulate towards the apex, tubes 2 em.long 1em.in diameter at 
the apex, blade 5-lobate, lobes lacerate 13 mm.long 5 mm.broad. —Corolla 
not perfectly known. 
Hans. "Taito: Hinan. 
Very near, or perhaps quite identieal with, à Chinese specimen at Kew 
which is named as Z7'richosanthes palmata./ Woxp. "The type of the same 
species is quite different from the Chinese specimen and also from the pre- 
sent plant. 'Phe braets of the type are usually entire or but a little fimbriate 
in the upper ones, while those of my plant are very deeply fimbriate. 
Trichosanthes multiloba Mio.; Marsuw. et Havara Enum. PI. 
Formos. p. 157. 
Har. Hikaku, Takow. 
Drsrnrp. Borneo, Japan and Central China. 
Trichosanthes quinquangulata Gnav; Havara Mater. FL. Formos. 
p. 118. 
Has. Kotosho. 
Disrnm.  Mangsi island, the Philippines. 
OrsskRV. A strong twining herb, nearly glabrous, internodes 12 em. long, 
tendrils 4-divided at the apex; leaves broadly cordate 10 em.long as 
broad, eordate at the base, acute at the apex, margin 5-angled, aeuminate nt 
the tip of the angles, very minutely, obseurely and remotely serrate, or 
nearly entire; racemes of male flowers, 20 em. long, bearing flowers nenily at 
