368 i DICOTYLEDONEÆ. TRICHOSANTHES à 
tus pallidiora, 12-20 cent. longa, 9-12 cent. lata, basi 3-5-nervia; sinus 
basilaris late rotundatus, 2-3 cent. profundus. Cirrhi robustissimi, 
' elongati, sulcati, puberuli. Flores dioiei. Pedunculus communis mas- 
eulus robustus, striatus, glaber vel sparse puberulus, apice 4-8-florus, 
12-20 cent. longus; pedicelli crassi, 1-2 mill. longi; bracteæ brevis- 
sime sparseque villoso-hirsutæ, 4 cent. longze, 1-1 */, cent. latæ. Caly- 
cis tubus ab apice ad basim attenuatus, dense villosus, 5 cent. longus, 
7 mill. latus; dentes erecti, flexuosi, 1 */, cent. longi, 2-3 mill. lati. 
Petala brevissime papillosa. Staminum filamenta glabra, vix 1 mill. 
longa; capitulum antherarum 14 mill. longum, 3-4 mill. crassum. 
Flores feminei subsessiles. Ovarium oblongum, sparse puberulum. 
Pedunculus fructiferus robustissimus, 1-2 cent. longus. Fructus glo- 
bosus, ruber, lzevis, magnitudine aurantii. Semina subquadrangularia, 
ad medium longitudinaliter uninervia, 10-12 mill. longa, 4-5 mill. lata, 
2-2 !/, mill. erassa. 
In Bengalia orientali (Griffith n. 2507 in herb. Kew.; Clarke in herb. 
Kew.); in Dacca (Clarke in herb. Kew.); in mont. Khasia alt. 
1300 met. (Hook. f. et Thomson n. 12 in herb. Kew., Mus. Par., DC., 
Flor., Monac., Vindob., Berol.); in Assam (Jenkins n. 440 et 620 in 
herb. Kew. et sine n. in herb. Monac. ; Masters n. 440 et 620 in herb. 
Kew.); in Cachar (Keenan in herb. Kew.); in India orientali loco 
haud indicato (Wallich n. 6686 A et 6688 F part. et C in herb. Lin. 
SOC. ). 
£, subpedata Clarke! in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 2, p. 608. — Folia 
fere usque ad basim palmato-lobata. 
In Cachar (Clarke in herb. Kew.). 
17. T. Wallichiana (Wight in Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 8, 
p- 270); foliis membranaceis, ambitu suborbicularibus, supra brevis- 
sime villoso-hirsutis demum seabris, subtus glabris lævibusque vel ad 
nervos leviter hirsutis, profunde palmato-3-9-lobatis, lobis oblongis 
vel lanceolatis, sæpius acuminatis, margine denticulatis vel crenato- 
dentatis; cirrhis 2-3-fidis; racemis masculis apice paucifloris; bracteis 
sæpius late ovatis, crenulato-subulatis ; calycis tubo ab apice ad basim 
attenuato, dentibus elongatis, triangulari-lanceolatis. — Involucrarià 
Wallichiana Ser. in Mem. Soc. hist. nat. Genève, 3, part. 1, P- 25, 
tab. 5 et in DC. Prod. 3, p. 318; Rom. Syn. fasc. 2, p. 98. — ir 
chosanthes multiloba Clarke! in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 2, P- 607, 
non Mig. — T. grandibracteata Kurz in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng: 
1877, p. 98, 99. T. 
