606 Lxv, CUCUKBITACEJ). (C. B. Clarke.) [Hodgsonia. 



1. HODGSON! A, S.f. ^ T, 



A large 0111111)61. Leaves coriaceous, 3-5-lol)ed, long-petioled ; tendrils 2-3- 

 fid. Flowers large, dioecious ; males in long racemes ; bracts oblong, entire, 

 deciduous; females solitary. Male: calyx long-tubular, mouth shortly cam- 

 panulatejl teeth 5, short ; petals 5, connate at the base, very long-fimbriate ; 

 stamens 3, filaments very short ; anthers exserted, connate, linear, one 1-celled, 

 two 2-celled, cells conduplicate. ■ Female: calyx and corolla as in the male ; 

 ovary globose, l-celled ; style long, stigmaa 3 oblong bifid exserted ; placentas 

 3, parietal, near the base of the ovary, 2-oviilate on each side. Fruit large,' 

 depressed globular, 12-grooved, flesh hard; perfect seeds usually six, each 

 having a smaller commonly barren one attached to its side, flat-ellipsoid, with 

 sunk veins. 



1. H. heteroclita, JI. f. ^ T. in Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. 257 ; Hk. f. III. 

 Himal. PI. t. 1, 2, 3 ; Fl. d. Serves, t. 1262 ; Kurz in Joum. As. Soo. 1877, pt. 

 ii. 97. Trichosanthes heteroclita, Hoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 705; Wall. Cat. 6684, 

 A, B, 0. T. grandiflora. Wall. Cat. 6685 not of Blume. 



Sikkim; alt. 0-4000 ft. Assam. Xhasia Mts. alt.. 0-3000 ft. East Bengai 

 and Chittagono ; Peuu and MiETABAtr,; Kurja. , Pjnang. and Maxacca. 

 . Stem extending sometimes 100 ft. Leaves 6-8 in. long and broad, glabrous, deeply 

 lobed; lobes entire or very sparingly denticulate, acute. Male racemes 8 in.; bracts 

 J in. Calyx often rusty-pubescent without, tube 3-4 by f in. Corolla-lobes 2 in., 

 brown-villous, 3-nerved "without, white, tinged yellow within, ending in a fringe 4 in. 

 Fruit 4—10 in. wide, red-brown, closely tomentose. Seeds 2-3 by 1-1^ in. 



2. TRXCKOSASTTKES, Linn. 



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

 2-6-fld. Flowers dioecious less often 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, lan- 

 ceolate, entire serrate or laciniate. Corolla 5-fid nearly to the base, lobes long- 

 flmbriate ; 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 apex ; placentas 3,. parietal ; ovules very many, 

 horizontal, half-pendulous. Fruit lanceolate or globose, smooth, acute or ob- 

 tuse at the apex. Seeds many, horizontal, packed in pulp, compressed, ellipsoid, 

 sometimes . angular on the margin. — DlsiBiB. Species 20, in eonth-East Asia,' 

 extending through Malaya to North Australia in one direction, through China., 

 to Japan in another. 



* Bracts of the mule raceme large, sheathing the flowers from a broad base. 



1. T. palmata, Bcvb. Fl. Ind. iii. 704; leaves palmate half-way down 

 in 5 or 3-7 broad lobes (but vary from angular nearly entire to deeply palmate 

 with linear-oblong lobes), bracts ovate or obdvate lacerate or strongly serrate, 

 fruit globose the size of a small orange, seeds, f in. scarcely angular on the 

 margins. Wall. Cat. 6688 excl. 0, F ; W. ^ A. Prodr. 350 as to a and ^^ 

 Wight III. t. 104, 105; Dalz. 8r Gibs. Bomb, Fl. 103. T. lacioiosa, WaU. Cat. 

 6689 A, B. T. aspera, Heyne in Serb. Rattier. T. tricuspis, Miq. Fl. Ind. 



