:>2 50. 



(13) Fruits shortly peduncled. Connectives not produced Zdmerifi. 13 



Fruits on capillary peduncles. Connect! VPS produced M<-lnUn-ia. 14 



(14) Calyx-tube short. Seeds very many TMadinntJta. 7 



(15) Leaves not divided into separate leaflets. Fruits small, circumcised. 



Actinostemma. 16 



Leaves pedately divided into 8-5 lenflets. (16) 



(16) Fruits pea-like. Leaflets serrate. Tendrils simple. . . Ctynostemma. 15 

 Fruits elongate clavate. Leaflets entire Al*<miitra. 17 



1. Trichosanthes LINN. 

 Key fo Hie Fonnosan Species. 



( 1 ) Bracts Large very conspicuous. (2) 

 Bracts small or nearly none. (3) 



( 2 ) Bracts fimbriate T. laccrilrodcd. 



Bracts not fimbriate T. qitinquangtJata. 



( 3 ) Leaves herbaceous nearly glabrous deeply lobed T. nuiHildtfi. 



leaves thinly cliartaceous velvety Ixmeath, slightly lobed. 



T. cucwneroidee, 



Trichosanthes cucumeroides MAXIM. ; MATSTJM. et HAYATA Enum. ri. 

 Formos. p. 157 ; HAYATA, Mater. Fl. Formos. p. 117. Twining, stem striate, 

 pubescent, hairs strigose, patent, internodes 7 cm. long, tendril simple. 

 Leaves alternate, petiolate, oblong-cordate, 9 cm. long, 6 cm. broad, acnte or 

 acuminate, at the apex, base profoundly cordate, margin remotely obscurely 

 serrate, serras mucronate, 5-nerved, lateral nerves reflexed, secondary veins 

 reaching the apex of serras, hispid and scabrous above, villosely pubes- 

 cent beneath, hispid at the nerves, petioles 2 cm. long. Fl. J : racemose, 

 racemes axillary 10 cm. long, bracts minute ; flowers funnel-shaped 8 cm. long. 

 Calyx long tubuliformed, campanulate at the apex, tubes 7 cm. long, 5- 

 dentate, teeth minute lanceolate, 3 mm. long, corolla 5-parted, 1 cm. long. 



HAB. Koshun, Takow, Hikaku. 



PISTRIB. Japan, Hongkong. 



Trichoganthes laceribractea HAYATA ^[atei-ials for a Flora of Formosa p. 



