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11 7. Scandent subglabrous, stem striate, sulcata, internodes 12 cm. long, tendrils 

 opposite the leaves, 2-fid. Leaves alternate, petiolate, broadly cordate, 15 cm. 

 long as broad, acute at the apex, base profoundly broadly cordate, slightly 

 3-5-lobate, (terminal lobe triangular, 6 cm. long as broad) margin obscurely 

 remotely mucronately seiTate, 5 nerved, 3-central nerves erect, 2-basal 

 ones reflexed, all nerves reaching the apex of lobes, above nigricant albo- 

 punctate mostly scabrous, beneath shortly hispid, petioles 4 cm. long. Ra- 

 cemes axillary, flowering towards the apex, flowers bracteate, bracts large em- 

 bracing flower-buds, broadly ovate acute, margin lacerate or fimbriate 

 multinerved 3 cm. long as broad. Flowers J : shortly pedicellate, calyx tubuli- 

 formed campanulate towards the apex, tubes 3 cm. long 1 cm. in diameter at 

 the apex, blade 5-lobate, lobes lacerate 13 mm. long 5 mm. broad. Corolla 

 not perfectly known. 



Hab. Taito : Hinan. 



Very near, or perhaps quite identical with, a Chinese specimen at Kew 

 which is named as Trichosanthes palmata RoxB. The type of the same 

 species is quite difierent from the Chinese specimen and also from the pre- 

 sent plant. The bracts of the type are usually entire or but a little fimbriate 

 in the upper ones, while those of my plant are very deeply fimbriate. 



Trichosanthes multiloba Miq. ; Matsum. et Hayata Enum. PI. 

 Formos. p. 157. 



Haj3. Hikaku, Takow. 



DiSTEiB. Borneo, Japan and Central China. 



Trichosanthes quinquangulata Ctkay; Hayata Mater. Fl. Formos. 

 p. 118. 



Hab. Kotosho. 



DiSTRiB. Mangsi island, the Philippines. 



Obseev. a strong twining herb, nearly glabrous, internodes 12 cm. long, 

 tendrils 4-divided at the apex ; leaves broadly cordate 10 cm. long as 

 broad, cordate at the base, acute at the apex, margin 5-angled, acuminate at 

 the tip of the angles, very minutely, obscurely and remotely serrate, or 

 nearly entire ; racemes of male flowers, 20 cm. long, bearing flowers nearly at 



