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708 MONOECIA SYNGENESIA, Momordica, 
Sans. Soosavi, 
Beng. Oochya, or Oochi. 
Hind. Bura-korilla. 
Cultivated by the natives of India, even more extensively 
-than-Charantia, The fruit, though much smaller, being 
more esteemed, It is found in abundance in every market. 
3. M. monadelpha, Roxb. 
Dioecous. Leaves angle-cordate, smooth. Corol/s cam- 
panulate, Filaments single. Fruit smooth. 
Bryonia foliis cordatis. Flor, Zeyl. N. 356. 
B. foliis sub-rotundis, Burm, Zeyl. i, 19. f. 1, 2. 
Vitis alba indica. Rumph, Amb, v. t. 166. f. 1. 
Sungs., Vimba, 
' Beng. Tela-koocha, i 
Bryonia grandis. Willd. iv. 617. 
Teling. Kaydonda, 
A native of every hedge in the country, and seems to thrive 
qually well i in every soil, — It is always dioecous. 
~ Root ramous, not tuberous. Stems climbing, ranning over’ 
trees, and bushes, five-sided, perennial, scabrous, Tendrils 
lateral, simple. Leaves alternate, petioled, cordate, five- 
angled, with a few minute teeth round the margin, smooth, 
having one, two, or three hollow glands, under the base, from 
two to three inches each way. Petioles round, smooth, about 
half an inch long. Peduneles, in both the male and female 
plants, axillary, single, undivided, one-flowered. Flowers 
large, white, downy on the inside. Male calyx, and corol 
as in the genus. Filament single, columnar, short. Anthers 
creeping up and down, sometimes three of the convolutions 
are a clovaan considerably above the rest. Female flowers 
eparate plant. Calya and corol asin the male. Sta-— 
‘there are only the rudiments of three filaments. Style 
single, short. Stigma three-cleft ;. segments: double. Berry 
smooth, two inches long, and one in diameter, before ripe. 
marked with ten streaks of white ; when ripe red, three-cell- 
ed, bursting irregularly, Seeds numerous as in n Cucumis. ‘ 
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