530 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Tricliosanthes. 



bracts and a large globose red orange-streaked fruit, not 

 edible. Yern. Tarn. Anacoruthay; Tel. Abuva. 

 Yar. tomentosa, Heyne ; F. B. I. ii. 607. Leaves much less 

 lobed, scarcely scabrous, tomentose beneath; bracts and 

 calyx-lobes more deeply laciniate. 



W. Ghats, in the Mysore Hills, Pulneys and Nilgiris at 

 about 3,000-6,000 ft. 



7. TRJCHOSANTHES LEPINIANA, Cogii. Monog. 377. 



Carnatic, at Pondicherry (Lepine) ; W. Ghats, in the 

 Nilgiris and Pulneys. 



A large strong-growing climber with palmately 3-5-lobed 

 leaves and deeply laciniate calyx-lobes. 



8. TRICHOSANTHES ANAMALAYANA, Bedd. ; Cogn. Monog. 378, 



W. Ghats, in the Anamalai Hills at 4,000 ft. (Bedd. from 



description}. 



Apparently a large species but very little known. 

 Trichosanthes Anguina, Linn., is the Snake Gourd cultivated 

 'for its long twisted fruit, which may reach 3 ft. in length and 

 3 in. in diam. and is used as a vegetable. In leaves and flowers- 

 it greatly resembles T. cucumerina. Yern. Hind. Chachinda. 



2. Gymnopetalum, Arn. 



Twining slender pubescent or scabrous herbs ; tendrils usually 

 simple. Leaves cordate, 5 -angular or 3-5-lobed. Flowers white 

 or yellow, dioecious or monoecious, <$ solitary or racemose, ? 

 solitary. Calyx-tube elongate, tubular, contracted near the 

 mouth ; lobes 5, subulate. Corolla rotate, deeply 5-partite, the 

 lobes oblong or obovate. Stamens 3, included, inserted on 

 the middle of the calyx-tube ; filaments short, free ; anthers 3, 

 connate, 1 1-celled, the others 2-celled, the cells linear, longi- 

 tudinally conduplicate ; in ? staminodes 3, minute or 0. oar if 

 ovoid or oblong ; ovules numerous, on 3 placentas ; style filiform ; 

 stigmas 3, linear ; in $ pistillodes 1-3, subulate. Fruit an ovoid 

 oblong berry acute at both ends. Seeds many or few, obovoid or 

 oblong, compressed, marginate, nearly smooth. 



GYMNOPETALUM WIGHTII, Arn.; F. B. I. ii. 611; Trim. FL 



Ceyl. t. 43. G. tubiflorum, Cogn. Monog. 388. Bryonia tubiflora, 



W. &. A. 347. 



W. Coast from S. Canara (Hohenacker) to Travancore; W. 

 Ghats, in the Anamalai Hills at 3,000 ft. (Gamble). 



