Momordica. monoecia syngenesia. 711 



Bryonia nmheUala. W'dld. iv. GIH. 



Telhuj. 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 simi)le. Leaves petioled, halbertcd, angle-cordate or 

 three-lobed; lateral lobes often two-parted, all minutely 

 bristle-toothed, pretty smooth, from three to four inches each 

 -way. S'r//)?^/<?s solitary, clubbed. Male flowers umbel- 

 led, always on a distinct plant. Umbels axillary, simple, 

 shorter than the leaves; pedicels bractcd above the middle. 

 Corol gibbous, smooth, five-toothed. Receptacle as in CucU' 

 mis. Female flow rrs axillary, single, peduncled. Corol 

 as in the male. Fruit oval, the size of a pigeon's cg^, smooth, 

 red. Seeds from sixteen to twenty, sub-globular. 



The ripe and unripe fruit are eaten by the natives, as are 

 also the roots when boiled. 



7. M. titbijlora. Roxb. 



Leaves roundish, angles obscure. Female jloioers solitary ; 

 the male ones solitary, longer peduncled or racemcd, with 

 gashed bractes. Tube of the male corol long 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 

 toothlettcd, scabrous with harsh hairs on both sides. Flowers 

 axillary, very large, pure white. The male ones solitary, and 

 on a long peduncle while the plants arc young, but when ad- 

 vanced, on long peduncled, axillary spikes with large, gash- 

 ed, oue-flowered bractes. The female ones solitary, short- 



