1898.] G.King — Materials for a Flora' of the Malayan Peninsula, 29 
Thia reaemblea T. palmata, Roib. and T, WalUcMaTUx, Wight ; but the lobea of 
tbe leaves are shallower and their aurfaoes more glabrona and not at all acabrid, 
while tb() bnicte of the male iti florescence are much narrower and very acuminate ; 
and their edges, instead of beuig Taciniate, are entire or at moat ohscnrelj dentate, 
4. Trichosanthes palmata, Roxb, Hort. Beng. (1814) p. 70. 
Stent stout, angled and sulcate, glftbroas» Leaves thicklj membranous, 
broadly ovate or orbicular m general outline, deeply cut down to 
about the middle into 3-7 lobes ; the lobes acute or acummafce, tteir 
edges entire or denticulate, the base deeply but usually narrowly 
cordate ; upper surface more or less scabrous or scabrid, glabrous, glan- 
dular near the apex of the petiole, the lower glabrous or somewhat 
pubescent, length and breadth ^6 in, ; petiole rather slender, 1 to 3 in. 
long ; tendrils 2- or 3-fid, Male racemes sometimes in pairs, longer than 
the leaves, few-flowered ; bracts large, ovate to aub-orbicular, deeply 
incised or simply serrate, glabrous or with viscid hairs ; calyx-tube 1*5 
in, long^ tomentose or glabrous, the teeth lai^ceolate, tbe edges deeply 
serrate or laciniate, F&inale Eower solitary, on a peduncle less than 
1 in. long ; fruit ovoid, pointed when young, globular when ripe, 1*5-2 
in. in diatn. T. palmata, Roxb. Flor. Ind. Ill, 704 ; Wall. Cat. 6688 
(excL C, F); W. & A. Prodr. 350 ; Wight IlL t, lOtt, 105 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 
Bomb. Flor. 103, T, laciniosa. Wall. Cat. 6689 A, B. T, asp&ra, Heyne 
in Herb. Rottler, T. tricmpis, Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, Ft. I, 679. T, 
c&rdata. Wall. Cat. 6686 (excl, A and B). anguiim, Wall. Cat. 6687 
(F partly) ; Yoigt Hort. Bot. Sub. 58, T, Iraqteata, Kuvz in Joum. 
As. Soc. Beng. 1877, Ft. II, 99 ; Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan, III, 375, 
T.ptihera, Blume Bijdr. 936; Ser. in DC. Prodr. Ill, 315; Roem, Syn. 
fasc. II, 95 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, Ft. I, 675. Cnairhiia Melopepo, 
Wall, Cat. 6725. Involucraria WaiUcMi^ Serin ge in DC. Prodi'. Ill, 
318. Bryonia palmata^ Wall. Cat. 6711 F. 
Perakj IFraj/ 2J81, 2371, 2478. 3049; Eing's Collector 1848, 4983, 
10579, Ahdamans ; King's Collector. 
The fruit when ripe ie nsnally globular ; but there are Bpecimens in the Calcutta 
Herbariom which huve ovnl fmit like T. Wallichianu, Wight, and lit the same time 
the scabrid leavea and laciuiate lobes which are supposed to he characteristic 
of thiaspectei. 
5. TftiCHOSANTHEa WArxictUAWA, Wight in Ann. and Mag. Nat. 
Hist. VIII, 70. Stem robust, angled and sulcate, glabrous. Leaves 
membranous, sub-orbicular in general outline, divided half-way down or 
more into 3-5 oblong or triangnlar acute lobes ; the lobes sparsely denti- 
Duhite, the lower on each side sometimes lobulate, the base deeply 
and widely cocdate; both surfaces glabrous and usually smooth, the 
upper sometimes slightly scabrid and with a few glands near the apex 
of, the petiole J length and breadth 3-7 inclietj, tendrils 3-fid. Male 
