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TRICHOSANTHES TUBEROSA. TUBEROUS- 
ROOTED TRICHOSANTHES. 
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Class and Order. 
Monazcta T'RIANDRIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Cucursiracez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Masc. Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. 4-partita, ciliata vel divisa. 
Stam. 3. Sy 7 
Fam. Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. ut in mare. « Styl. trifidus. 
Pepo oblongus. — ‘El eee Aix 348 
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Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Tricnosantues twberosa ; foliis tripartitis laciniis inferiori- 
bus bipartitis, corolla segmentis bifidis laciniis lineari- 
_ bus bifidis, fructu oblongo, radice tuberosa. = 
TrichosantuEs tuberosa. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 4. p. 661. Ait. 
Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 5: p. 341. Sm. in Rees Cycl. 
TricnosantuEs corniculata. Lam. Dict. v. 1. p. 191. 
_ Cerarosanturs tuberosa. Spreng. Syst. Veg. v. 3. p. 18. 
_ ‘Tricnosantues foliis palmatis integerrimis, florum petalis 
bicornibus. Plum. Ie. t. 2A. 
Descr. Root a large rounded tuber, producing from its 
summit the long flagelliform, slender, striated, glabrous, 
green, climbing, and scarcely branched stems. Leaves 
distantly placed upon petioles about an inch and a half 
long, formed of three deeply cut, linear-oblong, divaricat- 
ing lobes, acute at the points, the lower ones with a smaller, 
lateral, unidentate lobe at the base, glabrous above, slightly 
pubescent beneath, the margins entire. Tendrils long, — 
simple, from the side of the petiole. 
Peduncle 
