fh'laMi,nt'ha.'\ LXf. CtJcUfiBiTAOBiB. (0= B. 01ftfk6i) 631 



by ths time the facemed btte is in bloSeoiA. The (•otdlls, !« Slightly oMiqua ; in 

 T. dvhia besides the normal large tnale floWer^ blueh SmAUet impej^ct oties ore often 

 found. • 



1. T> dublai Bimge Mnum. PI. CMn. Bar. 29; leaves deeply cordate OVilte 

 acute uudiTided, male racemes tdth prominent DiadtS, petEus | in. golden 

 yellow. Naud. in. Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 4, xii, 150, <• 10 i BoL Magt t. 6469 ; Kwz 

 in Jmm. At. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 102. Momordica calcarata, Wall. Cat. 8740. 

 Gymnopetalum Horsfleldii and piperifolium, Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. i. pt. i. 680. 



Plain nf East BenoaIi commSB, BBcending to 6000 ft. in the hills. The female 

 4 plant is rare and has never been collected in the plains. 'Psav ; Kwz. — ^Distbib. 

 Malaya, China. 



A large climber. Leaves 4 iy 2^ in,, dtotictllate, Sot at all ^ngoldi', usually 

 viUens beneath sometiineB nearly glabrdUd ; petiole 1^ id. Tendrils sltupld In all the 

 -wild examples, but in Sfaiidin's Strong fiultivated plants bifld. Male mei'mei 2-3 la., 

 flowets approxiiflated, Inracts serrate or ineis«»serrate ; ealyX'tsebh v*ty ba»ro*« 

 filameitts tfllnutely hairy, female pe^mete 2-3 iu<t more or less Haity; young 

 ovary deosely voolly. Ffuit 1^ by | In^j glabwti/^ obtuse at botb ends. Seeil* 

 «tdieely i in.^ There is an adffiirabls pietUfe of this pla&t amoagit Bo3):biiigb'g 



2. T. KAokerli C S. Clarke ; leaves deeply corda.ta'ovate acute entire 

 and tripartite with lanceolate segments, male racemes without btaote^ petajg 

 less than ^ in. 



Assam; Griffiih (Kevf Distrib. jTd. 769, 2.553). KflASaMtS., alt. 4000-6000 ft. ; 

 Myrang and Kuntlow ; S.f.^T. 



A large climber ; tendrils simple. Leaves polymorphous, acute, reSefilMilfg altO- 

 ge&ei those of 2V limbio, but geUsraUy less hairy and thinner^ or tripartite, with seg- 

 ments 4 by If in., thb two lateral lobes very cordate and auridied on the outer base ; 

 petiolules hardly ^ in. ; petiole 2 in. The female yfoioer in Griffith's example resembles 

 that of T, dabm but is smaller though the petals are slightly more than ^ in ; 

 p#dnnele about 1 in. Male racemes \\ in<, siender} flowers pedicellsd, scattered, 

 yellow; petals Scaxeely ^ in.; thesO small fioWeis probably coiiespond to the small 

 imperfect males often found in T. dubia ; if so the large perfect males of T. Rookeri 

 are as y«t unknovra, Frwit (and seeds) altogether like those of T, dubia, but rather 

 smaller, 1^ in. — Th^ ebraeteatd male raceme of this with pedicek ^ in. is exceedingly 

 unlike that of T. dnbia: but in all other points they appear congeneric, and th6 

 3iabit is the same. 



24. EDeAZtZA, C. B. Clarke. 



A large scandent herb ; tendrils 2-fld. Leaves petioled, entire, ovate, acute, 

 deeply cordate, more or leas pabescent. Fttmen largfe, dtdecious, yellow. Male 

 jiedvmcles paired, one l-flowered caducous, the other racemed ; bracts or in- 

 <!oti9picuOafi ; female peduncle elongate, l-flowered. MitBt catyx-tube elon- 

 gate, fluuiel-shaped, teeth 5, subulate ; corolla deeply e^aa-tite, with obovate 

 Aflttte Segments ; stamens 3, included in the cfllyx-tube ; fllamemts exeeedingly 

 short; anthers couuate into a cylindJic tube, one l-CeUed, two S'CeUed} cells 

 sttaight, lindaiM)M6ng, eoimective not appeadaged, Ebmam: calyx and 

 ctttoUa as in the Mftle; ovaty narrow-oboroid, 3-H36lled ; style long, stigwafl 3, 

 dMofig, 2'M j ovulea 1-3 Superimposed in each cell, horizontal or feubpaidu- 

 lon*. Capmm large, broadly fusifottu, trigonous, 8«celled, fibrous, dry,^_3 

 ■wtlfed, vaJyes dehiscing downwards and leaving llie trigonous central axia 

 Seeds 1-3 in each cell, pendulous, com^^eBsed, subquadiatei la%8, corrugate or 

 somewhat 3-lobed at the lower end and faces when dry. 



