Te vanced, on Jong peduncled, axillary spikes with large, ¢ 
ed, one-flowered bractes. The female ones solitary, short- 
Momordica. MONOECIA SYNGENESIA, 711 
Bryonia umbellata, Willd. iv. 618. 
 Teling. Teed danda. ; 
This plant is a native of hedges and forests. Flowering 
time the wet season. 
Root perennial, consisting of many pendulous tubers. 
Stems climbing to a great extent, five-sided, smooth. Ten- 
drils simple. Leaves petioled, halberted, angle-cordate or 
three-lobed; lateral lobes often two-parted, all minutely 
bristle-toothed, pretty smooth, from three to four inches each 
way. Stipules solitary, clubbed. Mave FLowERs umbel- 
led, always on a distinct plant. Umbels axillary, simple, 
shorter than the leaves; pedicels bracted above the middle. 
Corol gibbous, smooth, five-toothed. Receptacle as in Cucu- 
mis, FEMALE FLOWERS axillary, single, peduncled. Corol 
asin the male, ruit oval, the size of a pigeon’s egg, smooth, 
“red. Seeds from sixteen to twenty, sub-globular. 
The ripe and unripe fruit are eaten by the natives, as are 
also the roota when boiled. 
7. M. tubiflora, Roxb. 
“Leaves roundish, angles obscure. Female flowers solitary ; 
the male ones solitary, longer peduncled or racemed, with 
gashed bractes. Tube of the male corol log and gibbous. 
Fruit oblong, with ten hairy ribs. 
A native of the forests about Dacca. From thence the late 
Colonel Peter Murray sent the seeds to the Botanic garden, 
where the plants blossom during the rains, and ripen their 
seed in two, or three months afterwards. 
- Root perennial. Stems creeping to an extent of many feet, 
slender, five-sided, somewhat rough with short hair, “Leaves 
roundish, three or five-lobed, or angular, margins acutely 
toothletted, scabrous with harsh hairs on both witha! Flowers 
axillary, very large, pure white. The male ones solitary, and 
on a long peduncle while the plants are young, but when ad- 
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