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(13) Fruits shortly peduncled. Connectivos not produced Zclmcrin. 1?> 



Fi'uits on capillar^' peduncles. ConJiectives produced Sfelot/iria. li 



(14) Calrx-tubp short. Seeds A'ery many T/iJadiantJiu. 7 



(15) Leaves not divided into separate leaflets. Fmits small, circumcised. 



Actinostemvia. 16 



Leaves pedately divided into 3-5 leaflets. (16) 



(16) Fruits pea-like. Leaflets serrate. Tendrils simple. . . Gijnostemrna. 15 

 Fruits elongate clavate. Leaflets entire AJsmvifni. 3 7 



1. Trichosanthes Lixx. 



Key to the Foniuixan Spsdcs. 



( 1 ) Bracts large very conspicuous. (2) 

 Bracts small or nearly none. (3) 



( 2 ) Bracts fimbriate T. Jacerihirwfen. 



Bracts not fimbriate T. quinqimngidata. 



( 3 ) Leaves herbaceous nearly glabrous deeply lobed T. iiivUUoIki. 



Leaves thinly chartaceoiis velvety beneath, slightly lobed. 



T. cucumeroidef!. 



Trichosanthes cucumercides Maxim. ; Matsum. et Hayata Enum. PI. 

 Formos. p. 157 ; Hayata, Mater. Fl. Formos. p. 117. Twining, stem striate, 

 pubescent, hairs strigose, patent, internodes 7 cm. long, tendril simple. 

 Loaves alternate, petiolate, oblong-cordate, 9 cm. long, 6 cm. broad, acute or 

 acuminate, at the apex, base profoundly cordate, margin remotely obscm-eh" 

 serrate, serras mueronate, 5-nerved, lateral nerves reflexed, secondary veins 

 reaching the a^Dex of seiTas, hispid and scabrous above, villosely pulies- 

 cent beneath, liispid at the nerves, petioles 2 cm. long. Fl. J : racemose, 

 racemes axillary 10 era. long, bracts minute ; flowers funnel-shaped 8 cm. long. 

 Calyx long tubuliformed, campamilate at the apex, tubes 7 cm. long, 5- 

 (lentate, teeth minute lanceolate, 3 mm. longj corolk 5-parted, 1 cm. long. 



H.U3. Koshiin, Takow, Hikaku. 



DisiTiiB. Japan, Hongkong. 



Trichosanthes laceribraetea Hayata Materials for a Flora of Formosa p. 



