704 MONOECIA SYNGENESIA. T'richosanthes, 
Root tuberous, perennial, growing to the size of a man’s 
head. Stems herbaceous, climbing to the length of some fa- 
thoms, five-sided, villous, or even somewhat scabrous when 
old, Tendrils opposite, three-cleft. Leaves alternate, petiol- 
ed, cordate and cordate-lobate, finely dentate, villous on both 
sides, about six inches each way. Petioles channelled, a lit- 
tle hairy, scarcely half the length of theleaves. Male raceme 
axillary, solitary, as long as the leaves. Bractes alternate, 
sessile, cuneate, oblong, acute, serrulate, one-flowered. Flow- 
ers large, white, the fringe of the segments coarser than in the 
other species known to me, FEMALE FLOWERS axillary, so- 
litary, short-peduncled. Pome spherical, of the size of an 
orange, and of nearly the same colour, only redder, and as 
in T, palmata, which it is much like, the cells and partitions 
are very obscure. Seeds numerous,immersed in soft, gelati- 
nous, green pulp. — 
6. T. palmata. Roxb. 
_ Perennial. Fruit globular, smooth, Leaves palmate ; lobes 
acute, sub-lanceolate. Male flowers racemed ; female ones 
solitary. 
Beng. Mukhal. 
Teling, Kaki-danda, 
A large, climbing perennial ; a native of forests, where it 
runs over the highest trees, It flowers during the hot and 
rainy seasons. 
Stem angular, covered with gray, scabrous, somewhat 
corky bark, the young green parts smooth. Tendrils three- 
cleft. Leaves scattered, petioled, generally palmate, though 
sometimes only from three to five-lobed; divisions acute, 
slightly serrate, from three to five-nerved, smooth, having fre- 
quently several round, glandulous, hollow spots on the un- 
der side, Petioles channelled. Stipules single, small, axil- 
lary. MALE FLoweERs racemed, large, white, most beauti- 
fully fringed with long, white, ramous filaments, Racemes 
axillary, longer than the leaves, Bractes solitary, one-flow- 
