608 LXV. CUCURBITACE2B. (C. B. Clarke.) [Trichosanthes. 



VAR. ? majuscula (Trichosanthes sp. 7 Herb. Ind. Or. Hk. f. $ T.}; male raceme 

 stout more than 1 ft., bracts long little serrate, leaves very large. Khasia Mts. ; alt. 

 4000 ft.; Hk. f. $' T. Perhaps a new species, but the examples consist of male 

 racemes and leaves only. No. 12,298 C. B. Clarke (Darjeeling alt. 3000 ft.) seems 

 the same. 



3. T. cordata, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii. 703 ; leaves cordate-ovate acute entire 

 or obscurely angular-lobed hairy beneath, bracts elongate obovate entire or 

 scarcely serrate, fruit globose size of a small orange, seeds \ in. scarcely angular 

 on the margins. Wall. Cat. 6686 A. ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 

 99. T. tuberosa, Roxb. Ic. ined. T. palmata, Wall. Cat. 6688 F partly, & C. 



From the base of the EASTERN HIMALAYA in SIKKIM and ASSAM to PEGU. Fre- 

 quent in the KHASIA Terai and CACHAR. 



An extensive climber. Dioecious. Leaves often 6-8 in., dentate-serrate ; tendrils 

 usually 3-fid. Male peduncles usually paired, the racemed one often 8 in., stout ; 

 bracts pubescent. Calyx-tube 1 in., densely hairy without, segments finely acumi- 

 nate. Fruit almost exactly as in T. palmata, bright red, orange-streaked, apex not 

 acute. 



VAR. subpedata ; leaves pedately lobed almost to the base. Cachar ; C. B. Clarke. 

 The bracts and indumentum are exactly as in the type. Judging by the descrip- 

 tion, T. macrosiphon, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1872, pt. ii. 308, differs less from T. 

 cordata, Roxb. than does this var. subpedata. 



** Bracts of the male raceme large, subpersistent, narrowed to the base, not 

 sheathing. 



4. T. truncata, C. B. Clarke ; leaves ovate from a truncate hastate or 

 obtuse (not cordate) base sometimes subpeltate entire or irregularly tricuspid 

 glabrous denticulate or not, bracts ovate slightly serrate nearly glabrous, female 

 plant unknown. 



SIKKIM, alt. 1000 ft. ; J. D. H. KHASIA MTS., alt. 4000 ft. (Cherra Coal-pit) 

 H.f. $ T.; C.B. Clarke. 



Stem twining ; tendrils 2 3-fid. Leaves glabrous coriaceous or membranous, poly- 

 morphous, sometimes exactly ovate with a rounded subentire margin sometimes 

 deeply 3-cuspidate. Male peduncle 6 in. Calyx-tube f-1^ in., somewhat tomentose 

 without : corolla (ex Hook, f.) greenish- white. 



5. T. him al en sis, C. B. Clarke ; leaves palmately 3-lobed deeply cor- 

 date villous or pubescent beneath, bracts lanceolate incise-serrate, fruit 3-4 in. 

 long-cylindric tapering at both ends. T. cordata, Wall. Cat. 6686 B. Oucurbita 

 ficifolia, Wall. Cat. 6721. 



SIKKIM, alt. 2000-5000 ft. from Yoksun to the plains ; J. D. H., C. B. Clarke. 



Stems extensively climbing, with the petioles and leaves pubescent and hairy. 

 Dioecious. Leaves 5 in., usually deeply palmate, irregularly serrate ; tendrils 3-fid. 

 Male peduncles 3-4 in., bracts -f in. Calyx-tube 1^-2 in., very narrow, little hairy 

 without. Fruit 3-4 by l-l ii., nearly circular in section. Seeds |-g in. diam., 

 polymorphous, sometimes obovoid the broader part subtrimerous, sometimes drum- 

 shaped. Certain seeds were sent by Dr. Anderson to Naudin, who grew them and 

 has placed the resulting leaves in the Kew Herbarium accompanied by a drawing of 

 the seed, and has attached the name Platygonia himalensis thereto. These leaves 

 may belong to the present species. 



VAR. alab'rior ; leaves glabrous above pubescent or scabrous on the nerves beneath. 

 Khasia ; alt. 4000 ft. Trichosanthes sp. 9 Herb. Ind. Or., H. f. # T.The exam- 

 ples are of leaves and male racemes only. 



*** Bracts of the male raceme or minute. 



