28 (1. King — Materiah for a Flora of the Malayan Fenimula. [No, I, 
2. ?TiiiCHO.SANTHT39 Hearni, F, Mill), in Bentb. Flor. Austral. Ill, 
315, Stem slender, glabrous, salcate. Leaves membranouB, broadly 
Ovate^ the apei acute or acnmioate, the base deeply and widely cordate ; 
the edges rather remotely denticalate, soraefcimes l emotely sitmate-lobed j 
tlie upper sui-face glabroas flud sliining, the lower densely and minutely 
pTibeaceut, the nerves, snbglabrous and atont ; length 4-8 in., bread tb 
l3'5-6 in., petiole 1-1 "75 in. Male peduncles often in pairs, axillary, 
longer than the leaves, slender, pnberuloiis, angled ; floriferous in the 
upper half; bracts linear-oblong, entire, aboat *25 in. long ; several of 
the lower ones iiat i'owly rhomboid, all pubescent, flowers uoder 1 in, in 
diam. at the mouth ; calyx-tube cylindric, the month narrowly iiifnndi- 
buliform^ puberulous ; the lobes of the mouth naiTOW^ tic ute. B'emale 
ftotoer and fruit unknown, 
Andamaks ; Kurs^ King's Collector. 
Tha lafce Mr. Kmz coileoted a Bingk ppecimen of this on Rotkiid ielnnd (in tlia 
Andaman group) iiiany years ago, and ho reft-rred it in the CaScuttJi Herbantim to 
Trichosanthsa reniformiSf Miq. He also eaggeBted for it the name Trichosanthe* 
herpetospermum,~-& nskme which he never published* In 1890 Beveral Bpeoimens of 
the plfitit were collected near Port Mowat, on the Sooth Atidnman. Specimens of 
this second gathering. &3 well as of Ktirz's original ((atherlog, were sent by mu to Mi*. ^ 
C. B, Clarke who found that they cloeoly rBBernbl*, and are probably ideutioal wilji, 
T. Semiii, an Australian spooies named by the ]ate Buron Ton MuTlor, and of whinh 
an imperffet description was published by Mr. Bentham iii hin Flora of Anatralia. 
And to this epecies I now doubtfnlly refer both the Andaman gatherings, 
3. Trichosantheb tricuspioata, Lour, Flor. Cocbinchin. 11, 723, 
Stevi stout, snlcate, Bmooth, pflabroua. Leaves thinly coriaceous, ovate- 
eub-triangnkr, with from IJ-o stout triangular broad^ acute or acumi- 
nate, Bpreading lobae, the base broadly cordate, the edges remotely and 
minutely denticulate or aubentire, glabrous on both surfaces j length 
and breadth 3-5 in, ; petiole slender, H'5 in. ; tendrils 3-fid. Male 
peduncles floriferoua for half their length, longer than the lea ires, stout, 
glabrous or pmberulous, 10-20 flowered j bracts thick, rigid, ovate- 
laneeolate, caudate- acuminate, obscurely dentate or entire; ca!yx-tube 
tapering to the base, shortly but densely tomentose, the lobes caudate- 
lanceolate with a few irregular distant teeth j corolla 1*5 in. in diam. 
Female fiower from the same axil aa the male pedoncle, the tabe 1*5 in. 
long, the corolla -75 in. in diam. ; fruU ovoid when young, aubglobnlar 
and 2 in. in diam, when ripe, smooth, yellow with numeions small black 
pustules, the pulp thick ; the seeds in the very centre, broadly orate, • 
compressed, '5 in. long and "4 in. braad. Blume Bijdr. 985 • Ser. in 
DC. Prodr. Ill, 315 ; Koem. Syn., fase, II, 95-; Miq, Flor, Ind. Bat. I, 
Pt. I, 676; Cogniaux in DC. Mon. Phan. Ill, 374. 
PENAtfo ; Curtis 1947. Perak ; Scortechini 376 ; Kings Oollectar 
2202, 5111 ; Wray 4029. 
