Momordica, MONOECIA SYNGENESIA,’ 107--— 
neous, porous, villous nut; in its base i is a. slit, or - opening 
through which the base. A the next integument passes ; the 
middle one thick and spongy particularly before perfect ma- 
turity, in that state it may be taken for a perisperm ; the ex- 
terior one membranaceous, and slightly reticulate,  Peris- 
perm no other than the middle gray spongy envelope of the 
seed. Embryo erect. Cotyledons conform to the cell of 
the exterior integument, thick, firm, white, Plumula of two 
unequal lobate lobes. Radicle conic; inferior. 
_ MOM ORDI CA. Schreb. gen. N. 1477. 
Male calyx fiye-toothed. Corot five-parted, or five-pe- 
talled. Female calyx and coro as in the male. Style trifid. 
Pepo fleshy bursting when ripe with or without elastic force. 
Seeds enveloped in a soft aril, 
1, M, Charaniia, Willd, iv. 602. 
Leaves palmate, having nerves. Peduncles solitary, with 
a round, reniform bracte at or below the middle. Fruit. 
lengthened, tubercled, tapering at both ends. _ Seeds with a 
thick notched margin. | | 
Pandi-pavel. Rheed, Mal, viii. t.9. 
_ Amara-indica, Rumph, Amb, v. t. 151. 
. Beng, Koriila. _.. 
_ Teling.. Korella. 
_ Cultivated in all the warmer parts of Asia for the fruit, 
Sabich the natives eat, while unripe, in their curries, The 
fruits are bitter and reckoned wholesome. 
sy M. muricata. Willd. i iv. 602. - 
. Leaves palmate. _ Peduncles solitary, with a erenilorm, 
_bracte near the base. Fruit gibbous, muricated, with tu- 
: bercles between, tapering at both ends, Seed with a thick 
. notched margin. fis? 4 : Sioa ed giliet 
+) Pavel. Bheoth, Mal. vii. 2 10, : pihenieaieasa a teyith: 
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