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TRICHOSANTHES. , CUCURBITACEÆ (AUCT. docxiacx). 
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E. cipue. ad basim, striatus, 3 '/,-4 cent. longus, apice 9-10 mill. s: 
dentes patuli vel reflexi, 10-12 mill. longi, 1 */, mill. lati. Petala pube- - 
rula, triangulari- cuneiformia, profunde laciniata, laciniis multifidis, 
- longe fimbriatis. Staminum filamenta crassa, leviter villosa, 1 */, mill” 
j longa; capitulum antherarum 6 mill -longum, 4 mill. crassum. Pedun- 
- culus fructiferus erassus, 2-3 cent, longus. Fructus ovoideus vel ovoi- 
. deo-oblongus, apice subaeutus, basi leviter attenuatus, levis, glaber, 
ochraceo-aurantiacus, 9-10 cent. longus, D-T cent. crassus, pulpa, 
saccharata. Semina valde numerosa, -pallide fulva, oblonga, utrinque- 
levia, distincte TAGS, e VN longa, ero. nis data, 48 “ht 
mill. crassa. 
In Mongolia Chidétai, Kilos | in herb. s Petrop.): in China 
"boreali (Fortune n. A. 55 et A. 104 in herb. Mus. Par., DC., Deless., 
Monac., Vindob.,* Kew.) ); prope Pekin (David in herb. Mus. Par. ; 
- Tatarinow in herb. hort. Petrop.; ] Bretschneider n. 31: bis in bertis 
hort. Petrop.; Bushell in herb. Kew.); in insul. Hongkong id^ 
n. 185 in herb. Hort. de ); ad Shangai Maine y n. 58a, in aget 
ius ). : i ss 
^ $ MN. ix 
20. T. dant (Regel! Ind, sem. luda Petrop. 1868, p- 90): 
foliis membranaceis, ambitu late ovatis, utrinque glabris et levibus, 
leviter 3-5-lobatis, lobis triangularibus, acutis, margine integerrimis 
vel undulato- denticulatis; cirrhis 3-4-fidis; racemis masculis pauci- 
floris; bracteis magnis, late ovatis, profunde subulato-dentatis ; calyce 
ab apice ad basim attenuato, dentibus elongatis, linearibus. — Maxim. 
in Gartenflora, 1872, p. 35, tab. 714; Franch. et Sav. Enum. pl. Jap. 
"lp.172, = T: cucumerina Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 332 (non Linn.). — 
Gymnopetalum | Japonicum Miq.! Prol. fl. Jap. p. 14 et 362, 
is gracilis, " elongatus, ramosus, anguláto-suleatus, glaber, - 
levis, Petiolus satis gracilis, tenuiter striatus, glaber, 4-7 cent. lon- 
gus. Folia supra leete viridia, subtus pallidiora, basi 5-nervia, 8-12 
cent, longa et fere totidem lata; sinus inter lobos acuti vel obtusi, 
asilaris late vel anguste rotundatus, 1*/,-2*/, cent. profundus. Cirrhi 
satis graciles, „elongati, striati, glabri. -Peduneulus communis maseu- | 
lus robustus, suleatus, glaber, 12-20 cent. longus, 5-S-florus, raris- 
sime uniflorus, ad basim sæpius bracteatus ; .bractea tenuiter mem- 
branaéea subpellucida, anguste lanceolata, acuminata, sparse den- 
tata, 1-2 cent. longa. Pedicelli patuli, 3-8 mill. longi; bracteæ glabræ, 
acuminate, penninerviæ, 3-3 1/, cent. longæ, 2-3 cent. latee. Calycis 
tubus dense breviterque Dr longitudinaliter striatus, 3 cent. 
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