CUCURBITACEH. XVI. TricyosantHEs. 
bitter; seeds oblong, narrow. 
—Plum. descr. pl. amer. t. 100. 
Bitter-fruited Snake-Gourd. Pl. tr. 
16 T. nexaspr’rma (Blum. bijdr. p. 935.) leaves 3-nerved, 
ovate, tricuspidate, quite entire, coriaceous, glabrous; male 
flowers bracteate, disposed in racemes: female flowers solitary ; 
fruit globose, 6-seeded. ©.? F. Native of Java, at the foot 
of Mount Salak, where it is called Aroy-pitjung-Tjelleng by the 
natives. 
Sia-seeded Snake-Gourd. PI. tr. 
17 T. Russeria‘na (Wall. cat. no. 6696.) smoothish; leaves 
cordate, hastately 3-lobed, nearly entire; tendrils simple; pe- 
duncles 1-flowered. h. S. Native of the East Indies. 
Russel’s Snake-Gourd. Shrub cl. 
18 T. macroca’rpa (Blum. 1. c.) leaves cordate, orbicular, 
5-lobed, but sometimes 3-lobed, coriaceous, glabrous; lobes 
ovate, acuminated, quite entire: lateral lobes rather bifid ; fruit 
large, globose ; stem suffruticose. kh. VJ. S. Native of Java, 
on the mountains. 
Long-fruited Snake-Gourd. Shrub cl. 
19 T. rricusprpa‘ta (Lour. coch. 589.) stems shrubby ; 
tendrils trifid; leaves cordate, tricuspidate, denticulated, gla- 
brous, many-nerved ; stipulas roundish, thick, crenated ; flowers 
spicate, or perhaps panicled; bracteas large, toothed; fruit 
yellow, small, ovate, 2-celled, 2-seeded. ©. F. Native of 
Cochin-china ; and among bushes and on the margins of rivers 
in Java. Flowers white. 
Tricuspidate-leaved Snake-Gourd. PI. cl. 
20 T. prrdsa (Lour. coch. p. 588.) stems suffruticose, very 
long, furrowed; tendrils bifid; leaves cordate, denticulated, 
pilose on the veins, lower ones palmate, upper ones 3-lobed ; 
male flowers? in spikes; bracteas large, lanceolate, ciliated ; 
fruit ovate, acute, scarlet, l-celled; seeds rhomboid, com- 
pressed, lobed, brown. h. |. S. Native of Cochin-china. 
Mees white as in the rest of the species, fringed with curling 
airs. 
Pilose Snake-Gourd. Shrub cl. 
21 T. Lactnidsa (Klein, ex Willd. spec. 4. p. 601.) stems 
filiform, angular, glabrous; leaves deeply cordate, palmately 
5-7-lobed, remotely toothed, glabrous on both surfaces; male 
flowers disposed 4 or 6 in a corymb: petals ovate, toothed ; 
female flowers solitary : petals ciliately fringed. ©.? F. Na- 
tive of the East Indies. 
Jagged-leaved Snake-Gourd. PI. tr. 
22 T. cornicuta ra (Lam. dict. 1. p. 191.) root large, fleshy, 
warted ; stems very long; tendrils simple; leaves digitately 
palmate ; lobes oblong; petals crenulated, bearing each 2 curl- 
ing horns towards the apex; male flowers in fascicles ; fruit 
ovate-oblong, smooth, green, variegated with white, 4-celled. 
Y.S. Native of the Antilles. T. tuberdsa, Willd. spec. 4. 
p. 601. Sims, bot. mag. t. 2703. Ceratosanthes tuberdsa, 
Spreng. syst. 3. p. 18.—Plum. ed. Burm. amer. fasc. 1. p. 14. 
t. 24. Flowers white. 
Horned-petalled Snake-Gourd. Fl. Jul. Aug. Clt. 1810. Pl.cl. 
23 T. Cutne’ysis (Ser. in D. C. prod. 3. p. 315.) leaves cor- 
date, triangular, bluntish, rather angular ; petioles short; ten- 
drils simple; male flowers solitary ; calyx long, clavate, rather 
pilose; petals obovate, with fringed margins ; female flowers 
solitary, almost sessile; tube of calyx ovate, acuminated, pilose : 
petals not fringed ; fruit ovate, striated, ending in a long point. 
—Native of China. Braan. icon. t. 13. 
China Snake-Gourd. PI. tr. 
24 T. ramniréria (Poir. dict. suppl. 1. p. $86.) stems gla- 
brous, striated ; tendrils simple ; leaves ovate-roundish, rather 
lobed, or entire, scabrous above; male flowers small, in loose 
racemes ; petals villous? reflexed; fruit ovate, mucronate, gla- 
brous.—Native of Porto Rico. 
©.F. Native of St. Domingo. 
XVII. Ampvertosicyos. 39 
Tamnus-leaved Snake-Gourd. PI. tr. 
25 T. vu'sera (Blum. bijdr. p. 936.) leaves deeply cordate, 
tricuspidate, denticulated, rather tomentose beneath ; female 
flowers solitary ; fruit ovate, acute.— Native of Java, on the moun- 
tains, where the plantis called by the natives droy-kalayar-burrum. 
Donny Snake-Gourd. Pl. tr. 
26 T. cLosòsa (Blum. bijdr. p. 936.) leaves palmately 3 or 
5-lobed, quite entire, glabrous ; lobes linear, acute ; male flowers 
bracteate, disposed in dense spikes, on thick peduncles; female 
flowers solitary ; fruit globose.—Native of Java, on Mount 
Salak, where the plant is called Aroy-jantang by the natives. 
Globose-fruited Snake-Gourd. PI. cl. 
27 T. earma ra (Roxb. ex Wall. cat. 6688.) puberulous ; 
leaves cordate, 3-5-lobed ; lobes denticulated ; peduncles race- 
mose ; corolla fringed. h.. S. Native of the East Indies. 
Bracteas toothed. 
Palmate-\eaved Snake-Gourd. Shrub cl. 
28 T. rriroxia‘ra (Blum. |. c.) leaves ternate; leaflets den- 
ticulated, scabrous: lateral ones gibbous at the base; male 
flowers bracteate, disposed in something like racemes ; female 
flowers solitary; fruit ovate, muricated (ex Rumph) ; seeds com- 
planate, denticulated ?—Native of Java, in the province of 
Krawang, near Tjiradjas. Momordica trifoliata, Lin. spec. 
1434. Amara sylvéstris, Rump. amb. t. 152. f. 2. 
Trifoliate-leaved Snake-Gourd. PI. cl. 
29 T. ropa‘ra (Wall. cat. no. 6693.) downy or puberulous ; 
leaves 5-7-lobed ; lobes mucronate at the apex, narrowest at the 
base, denticulated ; tendrils branched ; peduncles long, bearing a 
raceme of flowers at the top. ©. U.S. Native of the East Indies. 
Lobed-leaved Snake-Gourd. PI. cl. 
Cult. Sow the seeds in a hot-bed in spring, and afterwards 
treat the plants as if they were cucumbers. The shrubby and 
perennial species should be protected from the frost and cold 
by placing them in the stove in winter : cuttings will root readily. 
XVII. AMPELOSI'CYOS (from apedoc, ampelos, a vine, 
and otxvoc, sicyos, a cucumber ; intermediate habit.) Pet. Th. 
veg. d’Afr. p. 68. t. 22.—Telfairia, Hook, bot. mag. no. 2751. 
and 2752. (July 1827.)  Feuilla‘a, spec. Smith, in bot. mag. t. 
2681. Joliffia, Bojer in litt. (1826.) and Delill. mem. soc. hist. 
par. vol. 3. p. 314. (July 1827). 
Lin. syst. Dioécia, Monadélphia. Flowers dioecious. Male 
flowers. Calyx turbinate (f. 3. a.), 5-cleft ; segments acutely 
denticulated (f. 3. 6.). Corolla 5-petalled (f. 3. c.); petals ob- 
long, fringed. Stamens 5, disposed in 3 bundles. Female 
flowers. Limb of calyx almost wanting, 5-toothed (ex Smith). 
Corolla as in the male. Stigma FIG. 3. 
capitate, 3-lobed (ex Bojer), 5- 
lobed (ex Smith). Fruit fleshy 
(f. 3. e.), 2-3 feet long, and 8 
inches thick, elongated and fur- 
rowed, divided into 3 twin cells 
(ex Bojer), into 5 (ex Smith). 
Seeds compressed, nearly orbi- 
cular, reticulated on the outside. 
Cotyledons thick, oily. A climb- 
ing plant, with pedate leaves and 
showy purple flowers. 
1 A. sca’npENs (Pet. Th. 1. 
c.) Y. S. Native of the south- 
eastern coast of Africa, on the 
shores of Zanquebar. It has also 
been gathered in the Mauritius, 
where it is called by the negroes Kouémé. 
Smith, l. c. t. 2681. a female plant. 
Feuillz'‘a pedata, 
Telfairia pedata, Hook, 
bot. mag. t. 2751 and 2752. with male flowers and fruit. Jol- 
