710 MONOECIA SYNGENESIA, Momordica, 
smooth; petioles with glands. Male and female flowers 
solitary and corol-bracted, with glands on the lower margins 
of the bractes. Fruit oval, sharply marexed. 
Sans, Kurkuta. 
’ Hind. Kakrool. 
Beng, Gol-kakra. 
Muricia Cochin Chinensis. Lourier, Cochin Ch. 733. 
This plant is a native of thickets about Calcutta. Flow- 
ering time the wet season. . Like M. diceca it has male flow- 
ers on one plant, and female ones.on another. 7 
Root tuberous, perennial. Stems annual, climbing, some- 
what five-sided, smooth. Tendrils simple. | Leaves petiol- 
ed, from three to five-lobed, or palmate, sometimes serrate, 
smooth on both sides, from four to six inches each way, ' with 
the lobes oblong. Petioles channelled, with an uncertain 
number of wnvibilicahis ereen glands scattered over them. 
MALE FLoweERrs axillary, solitary, on long peduncles, or ra- 
cemed, large, of a dirty whitish cream colour. Fema 
FLOWERS axillary, solitary. Bractes solitary, large, two- 
lobed, cowled, embracing the calyx as in Momordica dioeca. 
Lobes striated, a little scabrous, having lower margins fring- 
od with many green glands. Male calyx of a dark black- 
ish purple, striated, and scabrous. Corol five-petalled, cam- 
panulate, with the side downy, and the bottom marked with 
three-coloured spots. Filamenis and anthers marked with 
the:same dark purple:colour, which prevails on the calyx. 
am calyx and corol asin the male. Pistil/um as in she 
6. M. umbellata, Roxb. ond 
Dioecous, root perennial. Leaves from cordate-sagittate 
to three or five-lobed, bristle-toothed ; male flowers sub-um- 
belled ; the female ones solitary. Fruit oblong, many-aget 
ed; ia round, 
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