98 S. Kurz — Contributions toivards a [No. 2, 



X Leaves more or less deeply palmately lobed. 

 + Male racemes without bracts. 

 Fringes of the petals simple and straight ; fruits ovate, acuminate ; margin of seeds 



thickened and crenate, T. cucumerina. 



+ + Male racemes minutely bracted. 



Fringes of petals simple, curled ; fruits elongate, spindle-shaped, T. anguina. 



Fringes of petals Jagged ; fruits oblong, acuminate ; seeds thick and irregularly tuber- 



cled, T. lohata. 



X X Leaves cordate, not lobed. 

 Leaves pubescent ; seeds with a central longitudinal ribbon, the lateral lobes truncate, 



. . T. reniformis, 



* * 3Iale raeemcs conspicuously bracted, the bracts leafy, 3 lin. to \\ in. long and 



longer. Seeds imbedded in a dirty dark-green pulp, smooth, with entire mar- 

 gins. (Involucraria, Sering.) 

 Petals fringed with very long simple curled cilia ; bracts of male flowers large and 

 broad, 1 — \\ in. long ; calyx-lobes lanceolate, entire ; leaves usually palmately 

 and very deeply lobed ; fruits large, oval-oblong, compressed, 



. . T. grandibracteata. 

 Fringes of petals very long and simple ; bracts of male flowers usually smaller ; calyx- 

 lobes broadly ovate, serrate ; leaves angular or palmately lobed ; fruits globose, 



. . T. bracteata. 



Petals to near their middle cut into numerous jagged segments, not fringed ; female 



flowers not tubular ; fruits globose ; leaves cordate, usually not lobed, T. cordata. 



As preceding but leaves larger and slightly angular, the tube of the female flowers 



1^ in. long, T. macrosiphon. 



Stibg. 2. Pseudo-Trichosanthes. Flowers dioecious, of both sexes solitary in the 

 leaf-axils, the female ones very shortly peduncled or almost sessile, the males on slen- 

 der pedicels. 



* Petals with very long curled branched fringes. 



Leaves cordate, not lobed ; fruits oblong ; seeds almost globular, T. dioica, 



* * Corolla-lobes entire or only slightly lacerate. 



Leaves reniform ; fruits globular or nearly so ; seeds elliptically oblong, 



. . T, integrifolia, 



*1. T. CFCUMEEiNA, L. sp. pi. 1432 ; DC. Prod. III. 315 ; Eoxb. 

 Fl. Ind. III. 702 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I/l. 676 ; Naud. in Ann. d. sc. nat. 

 4 ser. XVIII. 191 ; Btk Fl. Austr. III. 314. 



Hab. Generally cultivated all over Burma, especially in the plains, 

 and sometimes halE wild along the larger rivers in cultivated lands, in 

 hedges, around villages, &c. — Fl. Fr. Sept. — Jan. 



2. T. LOBATA, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. 703. 



Hab. Here and there in hedges near Chittagong. — Fl. Fr. CS. 



*3. T. Ai^GUiNA, L. sp. pi. 1430 ; Bot. Mag. t. 722 ; DC Prod. III. 

 814 ; Naud. in Ann. d. sc. nat. 4th ser. XVIII. 190 ; WA. Prod. I. 350 ; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I/l. 678 ; Bot. Mag. t. 722. {Petola anguina, Rumph. 

 Herb. Amb. V. t. 148 ; T. coluhrina, Jacq. Eel. t. 128 ; DC. 1. c). 



Hab. Burma, cultivated (according to Dr. Mason). 



