610 LXV. CUCURBITACEJ;. (C. B. Clarke.) [Trichosanfhes. 



10. T. anguina, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. iii. 314; leaves cordate subreniform 

 5- (3-7-) lobed or 6-angular lobes not acuminate pubescent or puberulous on both 

 surfaces, fruit elongate cylindric sometimes contorted, seeds corrugate. Roxb. 

 Fl Ind. iii, 701 ; Sot. Mag. t. 722 ; Blume Bijd. 933 ; W. 8f A. Prodr. 350 ; 

 Watt. Cat. 6687 ; Lamk. III. t, 794 ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 677 ? ; Naud. in 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xviii. 91 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 98. 



INDIA, cultivated. DISTEIB. China, Malaya. 



Except in the fruit this agrees altogether with T. cucumerina, of which it is 

 probably a cultivated form. The fruit, used as a vegetable, is eminently polymor- 

 phous. Miquel places this species at the head of his Involucraria which he states to 

 have great leafy sheathing bracts to the male flowers, but in the Indian T. anguina 

 these bracts are minute. 



11. T. lobata, JRoxb. FL Ind. iii. 701 ; leaves cordate orbicular 5-lobed 

 half-way down or more lobes acuminate pubescent, fruit oblong acute, seeds 

 smooth. Wall. Cat. 6693. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; Wight ; Eottler, G. Thomson, &c. 



Stem and petioles with flaccid hairs. Leaves pubescent beneath, and with flaccid 

 hairs ; tendrils 3-5-fid. Fruit 2-4 by 1-2 in., acute at both ends. Seeds half-ellip- 

 soid, compressed, margins entire. Probably a variety of T. cucumerina, as suggested 

 by W. $ A. Prodr. 350. T. lobata, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 98, having 

 the seeds tubercled (from Chittagong) is perhaps nearer T. cucumerina or T. anguina 

 as here understood : but the three species are difficult to separate. 



12. T. integ ritolia, Thivaites Enum. 127, not of Kurz ; dioecious, leaves 

 glabrous nerved elliptic or ovate acuminate less often lanceolate 3-nerved entire 

 coriaceous base rounded or cordate, tendrils simple, flowers somewhat large 

 solitary, fruit spherical shortly apiculate, seeds numerous crowded. 



CEYLON, alt. 2000-4000 ft. ; Thwaites. 



Leaves 2^-6 by l-2 in. ; petiole f in. Fruit 2 in. diam., red. Seeds in. r 

 smooth, oblong, oblique, compressed, truncate at the hilum, with two indentations- 

 at the vertex, testa blackish green. Not seen. The above description is translated 

 from Mr. Thwaites, who has been careful in communicating examples to Kew of all 

 his types ; but his No. 1629 is not to be found in its place. Mr. Thwaites describes 

 no bracts to the male inflorescence, and if the male flowers are all solitary the species 

 must be near T. dioica, Eoxb. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



T. MACROSIPHON, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1172, pt. ii. 308, from Tenasserim, in 

 the absence of both the male inflorescence and the fruit cannot be identified from the 

 description. It might be T. cordata, Roxb. 



TRICHOSANTHES SP.> Griffith (No. 2543 Kew Distrib.); nearly glabrous, tendrils 

 2-fid, leaves 3-foliolate very coriaceous, leaflets lanceolate nearly entire the central one 

 somewhat obovate the lateral ones unequally auricled on the outer base, petiole nearly 

 2 in., petiolules | in., fruit oblong-ovate but nearly spherical red with yellowish 

 streaks, seeds very many in green pulp brown compressed, margin somewhat angular 

 at the hilum end. Malacca, Griffith. This imperfect description is drawn up from 

 a fragment with leaves and from Griffith's note of the fruit attached thereto. The 

 characters appear nearly those of Telfairia, but the habit and texture are those of 

 Hodgsonia ; while from Griffith's description of the fruit it appears he did best by 

 placing it provisionally in Trichosanthes. 



