710 MONOECiA SYNGRNESIA. MomoriUca, 



smooth ; petioles with glands. Male and female Jlowers 

 solitary and corol.bracted, with glands on the lower margins 

 of the bractes. Fr?iit oval, sharply murexed. 



Satis. Knrliuta. 



Hind. Kakrool. 



Be7ig, Gol-kakra. 



Muricia Cochin Chinensis. Lourier. Cochin Cli. 733. 



This plant is a native of thickets about Calcutta. Flow- 

 erino' time the wet season. Like M. dioeca it has male flow- 

 .ers on one plant, and female ones on another. 



Root tuberous, perennial. Stems annual, climbing, some- 

 what five-sided, smooth. 2'ewrf;i/s 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 umbilicate, green glands scattered over them. 

 Male flowers axillary, solitary, on long peduncles, or ra- 

 cemed, large, of a dirty whitish cream colour. Female 

 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- 

 ed with many green glands. Male calyx of a dark black- 

 ish purple, striated, and scabrous. Corol five-petalled, cara- 

 panulate, with the side downy, and the bottom marked with 

 three-coloured spots. Filaments and anthers marked with 

 the same dark purple colour, which prevails on the calyx. 

 Female calyx and corol as in the male. Pistillum as in the 

 genus. 



G. M. umbellata. Roxb. 



Dioecous, root perennial. Leaves from cordate-sagittate 

 to three or five-lobed, bristle-toothed ; male jlowers sub-uni- 

 belled ; the female ones solitary. Fruit oblong, many-seed- 

 ed ; seeds round. 



Bemj, Koodwr?. 



Hind, Amoot-mool or T?/rMli. 



