_ Trichosanthes, | MONORCIA SYNGENESIA, 705 
ered, oval, fringed, covered on the outside with dark green 
glaudulous spots. Calyx bracte-like. FEMALE FLOWERS 
generally axillary, peduncled, though sometimes racemed 
also, Fruit globular, smooth, of the size of a small orange, 
when ripe of a bright deep red, replete with a dirty looking, 
dark greenish, soft pulp, in which the seeds nestle. 
The fruit is reckoned poisonous, and I am told it is mixed 
with rice and employed to destroy crows, 
7. T. heteroclita, R. 
Perennial, scandent. Leaves from three to five-lobed ; 
male flowers racemed ; female ones solitary, or racemed, 
_ Pepo sub-globular, containing as many as six lange, two- 
lobed, nuciform seeds. 
Goolur of the natives of the Silhet district. F 
_ A native of the eastern parts of Bengal. From Silhet Mr, 
Robert Keith Dick, the Judge of that district, sent plants to 
the Botanic garden in 1805, where they blossom daring the 
greater part of the year, and the seed ripens in October. 
Now, 1811, the original plants sent by Mr, Dick are of many 
fathoms extent, running to the top of high trees, yet continu- 
ing to increase rapidly, and do not by any means. ae to 
have attained their full size. : 
_ Root ramous, as in most other plants. Stems one or seve~ 
ral from the same root; perennial, climbing to a great extent, 
up and over large trees. Bark of the old ligneous parts 
Oliye-coloured, and somewhat cracked ; that of the young 
shoots smooth, and a little furrowed, Leaves alternate, pe- 
tioled, frovo three to five-lobed, from three to five-nerved, 
smooth on both sides, having the lobes entire, oblong, or ti- 
angularly ovate, acuminate, from six to twelve inches each — 
way, Petioles shorter than the leaves, nearly round, reddish, 
and smooth, Stipules solitary, sub-axillary, thick, short, co- 
nical, coloured, Mate Fiowers. Racemes axillary, soli- 
- tary, about the length of the leaves, smooth, ofa deep brown, 
bearing several alternate, sub-sessile, very large flowers near 
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