704 MONOECIA SYNOENESiA. Trichoscuiihes. 



/?oo< tuberous, perennial, growing- to the size of a man's 

 liead. Stems herbaceous, climbing- to the length of some fa- 

 thoms, five-sided, villous, or even somewhat scabrous when 

 old. Tendrils opposite, three-cleft. Leaves alternate, petiol- 

 ed, cordate and cordate-lobate, finely dentate, villous on both 

 sides, about six inches each way. Petioles channelled, a lit- 

 tle hairy, scarcely half the length of the leaves. Male raceme 

 axillary, solitary, as long- as the leaves. Bractes alternate, 

 sessile, ciineate, oblong, acute, serrulate, one-flowered. Floio- 

 ers large, white, the fringe of the segments coarser than in the 

 other species known to me. Female flowers axillary, so- 

 litary, short-peduncled. Pome spherical, of the size of an 

 orange, and of nearly the same colour, only redder, and as 

 in T. palmata, which it is much like, the cells and partitions 

 are very obscure. Seeds numerous, immersed in soft, gelati- 

 nous, green pulp. 



6. T. palmata. Roxb. 



Perennial. Fruit globular, smooth. Leaves palmate ; lobes 

 acute, sub-lanceolate. Male flowers racemed ; Jemale ones 

 solitary. 



Beng. Mukhal. 



Teling. Kaki-danda. 



A large, climbing- perennial ; a native of forests, where it 

 runs over the highest trees. It flowers durino- the hot and 

 rainy seasons. 



Stem angular, covered with gray, scabrous, somewhat 

 corky bark, the young- green parts smooth. Tendrils three- 

 cleft. Leaves scattered, petioled, generally palmate, though 

 sometimes only from three to five-lobed ; divisions acute, 

 slightly serrate, from three to five-nerved, smooth, having fre- 

 quently several round, glandulous, hollow spots on the un- 

 der side. Petioles clmnneWed. 6'<?/)M/es single, small, axil- 

 lary. Male flowers racemed, large, white, most beauti- 

 fully fringed with long, white, ramous filaments. Racemes 

 axillary, longer than the leaves. Bractes solitary, one-flow- 



