606 LXV. CUCURBITACE^]. (C. B. Clarke.) [Hodgsonia. 



1. HODGSONIA, //./. 8f T. 



A large climber. Leaves coriaceous, 3-5-lobed, long-petioled ; tendrils 2-3- 

 fid. Flowers large, dioecious ; males in long racemes ; bracts oblong, entire, 

 deciduous; females solitary. MALE: calyx long-tubular, mouth shortly cam- 

 panulate, teeth 5, short ; petals 5, connate at the base, very long-fimbriate ; 

 stamens 3, filaments very short ; anthers exserted, connate, linear, one 1-celled, 

 two 2-celled, cells conduplicate. FEMALE : calyx and corolla as in the male ; 

 ovary globose, 1-celled ; style long, stigmas 3 oblong bifid exserted ; placentas 

 3, parietal, near the base of the ovary, 2-ovulate on each side. Fruit large, 

 depressed globular, 12-grooved, flesh hard; perfect seeds usually six, each 

 having a smaller commonly barren one attached to its side, flat-ellipsoid, with 

 sunk veins. 



1. H. heteroclita, H. f. # T. in Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. 257 ; Hk. f. Ill 

 Himal. PL t. 1, 2, 3 ; Fl. d. Serres, t. 1262 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. 

 ii. 97. Trichosanthes heteroclita, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 705; Wall. Cat. 6684, 

 A, B, C. T. grandiflora, Wall. Cat. 6685 not of Blume. 



SIKKIM ; alt. 0-4000 ft. ASSAM. KHASIA MTS. alt. 0-3000 ft. EAST BENGAL 

 and CHITTAGONO ; PEGU and MARTABAX ; Kurz. PINANG and MALACCA. 



Stem extending sometimes 100 ft. Leaves 68 in. long and broad, glabrous, deeply 

 lobed ; lobes entire or very sparingly denticulate, acute. Male racemes 8 in. ; bracts 

 % in. Calyx often rusty-pubescent without, tube 3-4 by f in. Corolla-lobes 2 in., 

 brown- villous, 3-nerved without, white, tinged yellow within, ending in a fringe 4 in. 

 Fruit 4-10 in. wide, red-brown, closely tomentose. Seeds 2-3 by 1-1| in. 



2. TRICHOSANTHES, Linn. 



Scandent herbs. Leaves entire or 3-9-lobed, denticulate ; tendrils usually 

 2-5-fid. Flowers dioecious less often monoecious, white ; male peduncles usually 

 in axillary pairs, one 1-flowered caducous, the other racemose ; bracts large or 

 small or ; female flower solitary. MALE : calyx long-tubular ; teeth 5, lan- 

 ceolate, entire serrate or laciniate. Corolla 5-fid nearly to the base, lobes long- 

 fimbriate ; stamens 3; anthers almost included, connate (free in T. dioica), 

 long-linear, one 1-celled, two 2-celled, cells conduplicate. FEMALE : calyx and 

 corolla as in the male. Ovary inferior, at the base of the calyx-tube, 1-celled ; 

 style filiform, 3 or 6-fid at apex ; placentas 3, parietal ; ovules very many, 

 horizontal, half-pendulous. Fruit lanceolate or globose, smooth, acute or ob- 

 tuse at the apex. Seeds many, horizontal, packed in pulp, compressed, ellipsoid, 

 sometimes angular on the margin. DISTKIB. Species 20, in South-East Asia, 

 extending through Malaya to North Australia in one direction, through China 

 to Japan in another. 



* Bracts of the male raceme large, sheathing the flowers from a broad base. 



1. T. palmata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 704; leaves palmate half-way down 

 in 5 or 3-7 broad lobes (but vary from angular nearly entire to deeply palmate 

 with linear-oblong lobes), bracts ovate or obovate lacerate or strongly serrate, 

 fruit globose the size of a small orange, seeds f in. scarcely angular on the 

 margins. Wall. Cat. 6688 excl. 0, F ; W. $ A. Prodr. 350 as to a and ft ; 

 Wight III. t. 104, 105; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 103. T. laciniosa, Wall. Cat. 

 6689 A, B. T. aspera, Heyne in Herb. Rottler. T. tricuspis, Miq. Fl. Ind. 



