Trichosanthes.] CUCURBIT AC EAE. 529 



Calyx-lobes deeply divided, the divisions subulate ; leaves soft, 



not deeply lobed and hardly scabrous 7. Lepiniana. 



Female flowers bracteate, either fw with lanceolate bracts or many 

 with laciniate bracts ; leaves 3-5-lobed, very scabrous above, pubescent 

 beneath, irregularly and deeply serrate 8. anamalayana. 



1. TRICHOSANTHES NERVIFOLIA, Linn. ; F. B. I. ii. 609, in 

 part ; W. & A. 349. 



W. Glmts, in Coorg, Nilgiris and Pulneys, at low levels. 

 A slender twining herb with reticulate leaves and ovoid 

 acute fruit, green with white lines, afterwards red above, 

 the seeds flattened with angular projections on the margins, 

 the faces rugose. 



2. TRICHOSANTHES CUSPIDATA, Lamk. ; W. & A. 349. T. nervi- 

 folia, Linn. ; F. B. I. ii. 609, in part. 



W. Coast, in Travancore and Malabar. 



A slender twiner with reticulate leaves and characteristically 



geniculate zig-zag racemes. 



3. TRICHOSANTHES CUCUMERINA, Linn.; F. B. I. ii. 609; 

 W. & A. 350. T. lobata, Roxb. ; F. B. I. ii. 610. 



Deccan and W. Coast, in plains country and in lower hills. 

 A slender annual climber with rather shortly laciniate 

 small white flowers, deeply 5 -lobed leaves and an ovoid 

 fusiform fruit, green and striped when fresh, scarlet or 

 orange when ripe, up to 3 in. long. 



4. TRICHOSANTHES PERROTTETIANA, Cogn. Monog. 362. 



Carnatic, at Pondicherry (Perrottet, from description) . 



A slender climber with 3-lobed leaves and deep basal sinus, 



the racemes slender, long-peduncled. 



5. TRICHOSANTHES VILLOSULA, Cogn. Monog. 362. 



W. Ghats, in the Nilgiri Hills at 5,000-6,000 ft. 

 A rather stout herbaceous climber with conspicuously 

 villous stems, petioles and inflorescence and very long 

 laciniae to the petals of the rather large white flowers ; 

 the fruit ovoid, acuminate, 2*5 in. long. 



6. TRICHOSANTHES PALM ATA, Roxb. ; F. B. I. ii. 606 ; W. & A. 

 350; Wt. 111. tt, 104, 105. T.bracteata,Voigt; Cogn. Monog. 

 375. 



W. Ghats, in all Districts, up to 5,000 ft., common. 



A large woody climber with palmate deeply-lobed but very 



variable leaves, scabrous-dotted above, conspicuous large 



