LXV. CUCURBITACE^E. 
[Trichosanthes. 
846 
broadly unequal round at base, 3 to 4^5 in. long, 1*5 to 2*5 in. 
wide; petioles 1 to 1*5 in. long; petiolules ‘2 in. long or less. Male 
inflorescence long stout sulcate. Bracts deltoid pectinate glandular 
tomentose. Calyx-tube narrow, funnel-shaped, pubescent, teeth 
lanceolate, entire. Fruit oblong ovate, red, 4 to 5 or nearly 6 in. 
long, 3 in. through. Seeds in greenish black pulp, brown, edge 
thick: Singapore, Orchard Road; Chan Chu Kang; Tanglin. Hab. 
Johor, Bukit Murdom (Kelsall). Malacca, Alor Gajah (Griffith). 
Dindings, Lumut. Dislrib. Celebes. Native names : Akar Tiga 
Chabang; Timun Dendang Lunjung. 
Cultivated Species. 
T. Anguina Linn. Sp. PL 1008. 
“ Serpent Gourd/' “ Ketola Ular,” easily recognised by its 
long snake-like fruit, dark green with lighter patches when 
young, red when ripe, very slender racemes and small flowers. 
It is often cultivated in vegetable gardens. 
3. GYMNOPETALUM, Arn. 
Usually creeping herbs, slender. Leaves entire or deeply 
3- to 5-lobed. Flowers white, rather large. Male peduncles 2 
from each axil, one i-flowered, the other racemose. Bracts on 
racemes large, lanceolate incised or small. Females i-flowered. 
Male, calyx-tube long, lobes 5, lanceolate. Petals 5 not fimbriate. 
Stamens 3, anthers conduplicate. Female, ovary oblong; style 
long. Stigmas 3. Fruit ovate, oblong, acute at both ends. Seeds 
ellipsoid, margined. Species 6, Indo-China, Malaya. 
Leaves not lobed . . . . . . (1) G. integrifolium 
Leaves deeply 3- to 5-lobed. 
Lobes triangular, acute . . . . . (2) G. cochinchinense 
Lobes lobulate sinuate . (3) G. quinquelobum 
(1) G. integrifolium Knrz, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xl. 58; 
King, l.c. 31. 
A creeping plant in grass, scabrid. Leaves reniform, blunt, 
edge undulate or toothed, above scabrid, beneath tomentose, 
175 in. long, ‘8 to 2'25 in. wide; petioles *45 to *65 in. long. 
Flowers solitary. Male peduncles 1*5 in. long. Females *25 in. 
long. Calyx-tube hairy, teeth lanceolate. Corolla white, 1*35 in. 
wide, lobes obovate, pubescent. Fruit 75 in. long, globular, 
orange colour. Hab. Open grassy spots. Perak, Batu Togoh 
(Wray); Dindings, Lumut. Kelantan, Chaning Estate. Distrib. 
Cambodia, Java. 
(2) G. cochinchinense Knrz, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlvi. (2), 
57; King, l.c. 32. Trichosanthes laciniata Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. 
Soc. S. Br. 59, p. 107. 
Stem scabrid, hairy. Leaves reniform to triangular, 5-angled 
or lobed half-way, lobes triangular acute, edges crenate dentate, 
