30 G. K'mg—MaferiaU for a Flora of the Malayan Penimulu. [No. I, 
peduncles at firafc shorter than tlie leaves^ eloDgating with age ; bracts 
ohlong-ovfite, their edges laciniate; calyac-tnbe glabrous, the teeth 
spreadmg, entire ; petala obovate, laciniate. F&tnale Jlotver solitary ; 
fruit ellipsoid, obtuse, Bmooth, 2-4 in. long. Oogn. m DC. Mon. Phan. 
Ill, 368, Involiicraria Wall{chia?ia^ Ser. in Mem, Hist. Nat, Geneve III, 
Pfc. I, 25 t. 5; in DC. Prodr, III, 318; Roera. Sjn. fasc, 2, p. 98. 
Trichosanthes multiloba^ Clarke in Hook. fil. Flor. Br. Ind. 11, 607 (not of 
Miq.). T. grandibracteata, Kurz in Jonm. As. Soc. Beng. XLVJ, 98, 99. 
Pahang ; Ridley 244 Singapoke ; Ridley 296, 446, 4762. Penang ; 
Curtis 2004. Perak ; Scortechwi .508 and 600. 
A Bpecioa scarcely eeprLrable from T. puhera^ BL, of wliicU in my opiuloji it 
Would better be treated a variety. 
6. TRiCHORiKTHKS WAWRiEi, Cogu- in DC. Mon. Phan. Ill, 384. 
Stem slender, sub-glabrous, sulcate. Leaves membranous, tnfol folate 
or simple ; leaflets ot the trifoliolate form tmequalf the middle one 
oblanceolate, the lateiral ones anj^ularly auriculate or lobulate at the 
base on tlie outer side, the edges of all snbenfcire or sparsely denticnlate 
and the apices much acuminate, all with slender petiolules '25-"3 
in, long; the lower surface reticiiilate wli en dry, glabrous, the upper 
sparsely and niinutely pufitulate and glabrous ; length of the leaflets 
2'5-5 in., breadth '75-1 5 in., petiole J'25-^2 in.; the simple form 
triangnlar-oblongf, tapering gradually to the apex., the base with 2 short 
sub-horizontal lobules, length 2*5-5 in. ; tendrils short, simple or bifid. 
Male pedundes shortet than tlie leaves, very stout, sulcata, glabrous, 
inany-flowered ; bracts small , oblong, their edges with a few long teeth, 
the flowers extending for half tbeir length ; calyx '5 in. long, narrowly 
campaunlate, suddenly conti-acted into the tube, llie teeth erecto- 
patent or recurved, lanceolate, acuminate, entire. Female fiower with 
cjlindric tube slightly dilated at the apex, the teeth as m the male ; 
petals white, yellowish at tlie base, oblong, 3-nerved, the finihrias long, 
the external surface minutely papillose ; ovary, glabrous, ovoid-oblong ; 
fruit suhglobutar when young, oblong when ripe, smooth, red with 
orange or white stripes ; seeds compressed, obloufr -ovoid, "G In. bug. 
Pehak; King's Collector 2203, 4519, 4668, 5380, 5405, 10176. 
Wray 2382; Scortechini. (Singapore ; Waiora 241 in Herb. Vindob. 
fide Cogniaux.) 
Cogniaax describes tb IS as having itg leaves always trifoliolflte. Bat in some 
of the Perak spcoimeiis both trifnlialate and simple leaveH as abore described are 
to be found ; in a few only simple leaves, and id the majority only trifoliol&te. 
7. Trichosanthes Celebica, Cogu. in DO. Mon. Phan. Ill, 383. 
£r/ew slender, glabrous, stilcate, sometimes hairy at the nodes. Leaves 
coriaceous, tdfoHolate; the leaflets unequal in size, the middle one 
