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CUCUEBITACJEJE. [Teichosanthbs. 



Petiole with a stipule-like ciliate tract 

 in the axil . . . . .12. Blastania. 



Petiole with no stipnle-like bract in 

 the axil. 



13. CORALLOCABPUS. 



Fruit ovoid, rostrate, circumsciss 

 near the hase 



Fruit a round berry, bluish-green 

 with white stripes . . .14. Bbyonopsis. 



Flowers large, dioecious . . .15. Thladiantha. 



Stamens 5, free, anthers straight ; flowers 

 small, monoecious, the females in racemes ; 

 ovules 2-4., pendulous . . . .16. Actinostemma. 



1. TRICHOSANTHES, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 606. 



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

 drils usually 2-5-fid. Flowers usually dioecious, white ; male 

 veduncles usually in axillary pairs, one 1-flowered, caducous, the 

 other racemose ; bracts large or small or ; lemale flower solitary. 

 Male : Oalyx long tubular ; teeth 5, lanceolate, entire serrate or laci- 

 niate. Corolla 5- fid nearly to the base, lobes long fimbriate. Stamens 

 3 ; anthers almost included, connate (free in 2\ dioica), linear, one 1- 

 celled, two 2-celled, cells conduplicate. Female : Calyx and corolla 

 as in male. Ovary inferior, at the base of the calyx-tube, 1-celled, 

 style filiform,-3-or 6-fid. at apex ; placentas 3, parietal; ovulen very 

 many, horizontal, ^-pendulous. Fruit fusiform, ovoid or globose, 

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

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

 — Species 38, in 8. E. Asia, extending through Malaya to China 

 and Japan. 



Male flowers in racemes. 

 Bracts of male flowers large, and sheath- 

 ing at the base, fruit globose, red striped 

 with orange. 



Bracts laciniate .... 



Bracts entire 



Bracts of male flowers large, not sheath- 

 ing ; fruit cylindric .... 



Bracts of male flowers minute or 0. 



Male racemes ebracteate, fruit globose, 

 pulp orange 



1. T. ;palmata, 



2. T. cordata. 



3. T. himalensis. 



4. T. diccelosperma. 



