Trichosanithes, MONOECIA SYNGENESIA. 701 
slender peduncles, the latter short-pedicelled, Male calyx 
six-leaved. Nectary none. Filaments single, swelled above 
the middle, to which part five anthers are fixed by their 
backs. Female calyx nearly as in the male. Nectary none. 
Germ villous, ovate. Style scarcely any. Stigma large, 
with the margin from eight to twelve-cleft. Pericarp fleshy, 
of the size of a cherry, dividing spontaneously into as many 
parts as there were segments in the stigma, Seeds general- 
ly one to each division of the pericarp. 
It has the habit of a Phyllanthus, but the natural phmianier 
is ie of Bradleia, 
MONOECIA SYNGENESIA. 
TRICHOSANTHES. Schreb. gen. N. 1476. 
Male calyx five-toothed, Corol five-parted, fringed. 
Filaments three. Female calyx and corol as in the male. 
Style three-cleft. _Pepo oblong. 
1. T. anguina, Willd, iv. 598. 
Annual, scandent. Leaves more or less five-lobed. Male 
flowers racemed ; female solitary, Pomes ese 
Beng, Chichinga. 
Anguina Sinensis, Mil, t, 32. is but a very bad represen- 
tation of our Indian plant. 
_ Much cultivated in the warmer parts of Asia, for its fruit, 
which is universally eaten by the natives in their stews and 
curries, Ihave never met with the plant in its wild state. 
A variety was raised from seed sent from Nepal by Dr. 
Buchanan, the leaves of which are more deeply divided, and 
the fruit longer than those of the southern parts of India, but 
in-other respects they are the same. 
2 T, dioeca, R. ; 
- Dioccous, herbaceous, Pomes oblong, smooth, — Seeds glo- 
