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eilis, longe molliterque villosus, 1-3 cent. longus. Calyx longe villosus, 
tubo 7-8 mill. lato, segmentis trinerviis, 12-13 mill. longis, 2-3 mill. 
latis. Petala subacuta, 5-nervia, extus leviter villosa, intus brevissime 
papilloso-glandulosa, 2 */, cent. longa, 9-12 mill. lata. Staminum fila- 
menta puberula, apice leviter dilatata, 2*/,-3 mill. longa; antheræ 
2 mill. longæ. Pedunculus femineus crassiusculus, */,-1 */, cent. lon- 
gus. Staminodia 1-2 mill. longa, apice sublobulata. Ovarium oblon- 
gum, sparse longeque villosum ; stylus glaber, 6-7 mill. longus; stig- 
matibus divergentibus, apice 2 mill. latis. Fruetus 4-5 cent. longus, 
2 !/, cent. crassus. Semina ovoidea, basi subacuta, 4-4 */, mill. longa, 
2*),-3 mill. lata, 1?/, mill crassa. 
In China boreali (Reltisch in herb. hort. Petrop.; David. n. 439 in 
herb. Mus. Par.); prope Pekin (Skatschkow n. 268 in herb. hort. 
Petrop.; Wawra n. 1082 in herb. Vindob.); in Sungaria (Maximowiez 
in herb. hort. Petrop., Kew., Lugd.-Bat.). pos 
2. T. calcarata (C. B. Clarke! in Journ. Lin. Soc. 15, p. 126); 
foliis integris, ovatis, margine denticulatis, supra sparse villoso- 
hirsutis demum scabris, subtus leviter villosis vel interdum tomen- 
tosis; racemis masculis plurifloris, petiolo paulo longioribus; brac- 
teis late ovatis, incisis; calycis tubo late campanulato, segmentis 
patulis, elongatis, linearibus; stigmatibus reniformibus; fructu 
oblongo-subeylindrico, utrinque rotundato, longitudinaliter 12-15-cos- 
tato vel subulato, viridi et nigro maculato, villoso vel subglabro ; 
seminibus cinereis vel fulvis, utrinque rugulosis. — Momordica cal- 
carata Wall.! List, n. 6740. — M. casea Hamilt. ex Wall. L c. — 
Thladiantha dubia Hook. f.! in Bot. Mag. tab. 5469 (excl. pl. masc.); 
Belg. hort. v. 22, tab. 6 (excl. pl. masc.) ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 
Ind. 2, p. 631. 
Caulis robustiusculus, paulo ramosus, angulato-sulcatus, sparse 
longeque villosus. Petiolus satis gracilis, striatus, dense villosus, 
#8 cent. longus, Folia membranacea, supra intense viridia, subtus 
pallide viridia vel cinerea et sæpius breviter denseque villosa, breviter 
acuminata, basi pedato-5-7-nervia, 7-14 cent. longa, 5-10 cent. lata ; 
SIUS basilaris subrotundatus, 1 1/,-91/, cent. profundus, Cirrhi ro- 
busti, elongati, sulcati, sparse-villosi. Pedunculus communis masculus 
sr robustus, sulcatus, 4-8 cent. longus, sæpius ad basim bracteatus; 
Pedicelli erecti, congesti, 3-8 mill. longi; bracteæ leviter villosæ, im- 
bricatæ, 2-2 */, cent. longæ. Calyx dense villosus, 6-8 mill. latus, seg- 
mentis 8-10 mill. longis, 1-1 */, mill. latis. Petala leviter villosa, 
