ripen their fruit in the open ground. The present plant is of 
recent introduction ; the ripe, curiously compressed and embossed _ 
seeds, accompanied by a drawing, were sent to us from Moul- 
mein by the Rev. C. 8. P. Parish, and prove to be those of the 
Momordica mixta of Roxburgh; and this is considered identical 
with the Muricia. Cochinchinensis of Loureiro: if so, it is exe- 
crably described, but is thence shown to be a native of China 
and Cochinchina, as of thickets about Calcutta. No figure has © 
ever been published, yet the flowers are both large and hand- 
some. Unfortunately our plants have produced only male 
flowers: these quite suffice to form a judgment of the species, 
especially in conjunction with an outline representation of the — 
fruit, copied from the unpublished drawings of Roxburgh, in 
the museum of the India House. The plant flowered with us 
in July. 
Descr. Stems climbing, rather slender, angular. Zeaves on 
long, grooved petioles, bearing conspicuous Peziza-shaped glands, 
varying in size, cordate, three- to five-palmato-lobate, the seg- 
ments sinuato-dentate. Opposite the petioles are simple fen- 
drils. Peduncles \ong, single -flowered, bearing a two-lobed 
pilose bract beneath the blossom. FV/ower (male) very large, 
full four inches in diameter. Calyx deeply cut into five, ovato- 
lanceolate lobes, striated with black. Corolla patenti-campanu- 
late, of five, rotundato-trapezoid, acute pefa/s, copiously veined, 
prominently so beneath, subundulate, pale straw-coloured ex- 
ternally, villous within on the disc: the three inner petals black- 
purple at the base. Stamens as in the genus, with very long 
sinuous anther-cells. Fruit large, oval-rotundate, red, muricated, 
acute, three-celled, containing many large seeds. 
Our Plate exhibits a small portion of a male plant, with flowers and fruit,— 
nat. size. Fig. 1. The united stamens, crowning a large fleshy-lobed gland,— 
magnified. 
