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on each tooth of the mouth. Petals sub-obcordate, retuse, about 2 in. 

 long, covered with brown hairs and 3-nerved externally ; the inner 

 surface white, the margins fringed with very long spiral villous 

 yellow threads. 'Filaments clavate, anthers forming an inverted cone ; 

 pistil 0. Female flowers often on a separate plant ; their peduncles 1 or 

 2 in. long, occasionally in a raceme much shorter than those of the 

 males ; stamens 0. Fruit turbinate, 4-10 in. in diam., and less from base 

 to apex, covered with short reddish-brown tomentum. Seeds 2-3 in. 

 long, and P5-225 in. broad. Hook. fil. 111. Himal. PI. tt. 1, 2, 3 ; 

 Plor. des Serres, t. 3262, 3; Clarke in Hook. fil. Flor. Br. Ind. II, 606. 

 Hodgsonia macrocarpa, Cogn. in DC. Mon, Phan. Ill, 349. Trichosan- 

 thes macrocarpa, Bl. Bijdr. 935 ; Ser. in DC. Prodr. Ill, 315 ; Miq. 

 Flor. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. II, 676. T. hexasperma, Bl. Bijdr. 935 ; DC. 

 Prodr. Ill, 315 ; Hassk. PL Jav. Rar. 192 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1. c. 678. 

 T. heteroclita, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 70 ; Fl. Ind. Ill, 705 ; Wall. Cat. 6684. 

 T. grandiflora, Wall. Cat. 6685 (not of Blume). 



Perak; Scortechini, Wray, King's Collector. Malacca; Maingay, 

 Penang ; Wallich. Distrib. Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Burma, Assam, 

 and the base of the Eastern Himalaya. 



The earliest name of this species was Roxburgh's ( T. heteroclita), published in 

 the Hortus Bengalensis in 1814. Blume' s name T. macrocarpa dates from 1826. 



2. Trichosanthes, Linn. 



Scandent herbs. Leaves entire or 3-9-lobed, denticulate ; tendrils 

 usually 2-5-fid. Flowers dioecious or occasionally monoecious, white ; male 

 peduncles usually in axillary pairs, one 1 -flowered caducous, the other 

 racemose; bracts large or small or 0; female flower solitary. Male- 

 calyx long-tubular ; teeth 5, lanceolate, entire serrate or laciniate. 

 Corolla 5-fid nearly to the base, lobes long-fimbriate ; stamens 3 ; 

 anthers almost included, connate (free in T. dioica), long-linear, one 

 1-celled, two 2-celled, cells conduplicate. Female calyx and corolla 

 as in the male. Ovary inferior, at the base of the calyx-tube, 

 1-celled; style filiform. 3-or 6-fid at the apex; placentas 3, parietal ; ovules 

 very many, horizontal, half-pendulous. Fruit lanceolate or globose, 

 smooth, acute or obtuse at the apex. Seeds many, horizontal, packed 

 in pulp, compressed, ellipsoid, sometimes angular on the margin. 

 Distrib. Species 38, in South-East Asia, extending through Malaya to 

 North Australia, also through China to Japan. 

 Leaves, although often deeply lobed, always simple : — 



Male inflorescence ebracteate ... ... ... 1. T. cucumerina. 



Male inflorescence bracteate : — 



Bracts linear-oblong or narrowly rhomboid, quite 

 entire ... ... ... ... 2. ? T. Heami. 



