708 MONOECIA SYNGENESIA, MomOlllica. 



Sans, Soosavi. 



Beng. Oocliya, or Oochi. 



Hind. Bi/r«-koiiIla. 



Cultivated by the natives of India, even more extensively 

 tlian Charantia. The fruit, though much smaller, being- 

 more esteemed. It is found in abundance in every market. 



3. M, monadelplta. Roxh. 



Dioccous. Leaves angle-cordate, smooth. Carols cam- 

 panulate. Filaments single. Fruit smooth. 



Bryonia foliis cordatis. Flor. Zeyl. JV*. 356. 



B. foliis sub-rotundis. Biirm. Zeyl. i. 19. y. I, 2. 



Vitis alba indica. Rumph, Amb. v. /. 106.^. 1. 



Slings, V/mbtt. 



Beng. Tela-koocha. 



Bryonia grandis, Willd, iv. 617. 



Teling, Kaydonda. 



A native of every hedge in the country, and seems to thrive 

 equally well in every soil. It is always dioecous. 



Root ramous, not tuberous. Stems clhnbing, running 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. Peduncles, 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 elevated considerably above the rest. Female floioers 

 on a separate plant. Calif x and corol as in the male. Sta- 

 mens, 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 Cucumis, 



