AN ENCYCLOPEDIA 
OF HORTICULTURE. 85 
TRICHOSANTHES (from thriz, trichos, a hair, 
and anthos, a flower; alluding to the fringed corolla). 
Snake Gourd. Including Eopepon. Orn. Cucurbitacee. 
A genus comprising about thirty species of stove, green- 
house, or half-hardy, climbing, annual or perennial herbs, 
sometimes shrubby at base, occasionally tuberous-rooted ; 
3 CHOSANTHES ANGUINA, showing Portion of Stem, with Fruit and Male 
dae ae Flowers, and detached Cluster of Flowers. 
they are found in tropical Asia, pet Australia, and 
Polynesia. Flowers white, dicecious, less o! ten monæœæcious; 
calyx long-tubular, with five lanceolate, entire, serrated, 
or torn segments; corolla five-cleft nearly to the base, 
the lobes long-fringed. . 
peduncles usually in axillary pairs, one one-flowered and 
Stamens of the males three; _ 
Trichosanthes— continued. 
caducous, the other racemose; bracts occasionally 
wanting. Female flowers solitary; ovary inferior, at 
the base of the calyx tube, one-celled, the style three or 
six-cleft at apex. Fruit lanceolate or globose, smooth, often 
large. Leaves entire or three to nine-lobed, denticulate ; 
tendrils usually two or three-cleft. 
The common name of T. anguina 
refers to its fruits, which are eaten 
as a vegetable in India. Seeds 
of the species here described 
should be sown on a hotbed, in 
spring, and the plants afterwards 
treated like Cucumbers. 
T. anguina (snake-like).* Common 
Snake or Viper Gourd; Serpent Cu- 
cumber, fi., calyx tube . long; 
el ,_ cylin 
twisted, edible. l: cordate-sub-reni- 
form, Ta Tas e loned or five- 
- angular; loi pubescent or puberu- 
lous on both surfates, not acuminate. 
Stems twining, more or less pubes- 
cent. India, &c., 1735. Half. T 
See Fig. 98. E M. 722.) SYN. 
colubrina (B. xxxii. 18). 
T. colubrina (snake-like). A synonym 
of T. anguina. 
T, japonica (Japanese). jl, male 
racemes few-flowered ; bracts large, 
broadly ovate, deeply subulate - 
toothed; peduncle rubust, sulcate. 
fr. ovoid, slightly acute at base and 
— l. membranous, broadly ovate, 
g brous and smooth, three to five- 
obed ; lobes triangular, acute, entire 
or undulate-denticulate on the mar- 
gins. Stem slender. Japan, 1872. 
Greenhouse. (R. G. 714.) j 
T, Kirilowii (Kirilow’s). f. dicecious ; 
male racemes few-flowered at apex 
the bracts acutely toothed. fr. ovo 
or ovoid-oblong. J. sub-orbicular, 
often deeply palmately five to seven- 
lobed; lobes oblong or oblong-lan- 
incised-ser- 
Stem annual, 
vitifolius. 
T. palmata (pal 
hortl icellate, fr. nearly globu- š 
Ee r 
seven-lobei 
t. 7 imdi and N Al 
1825. Stove. (B. M. ) 
T. tuberosa (tu s-rooted). fl., 
corolla white, the tube 
peal FP Hrab free, of five 
tube of the 
segments, the . 
TRICHOSMA (from treis, 
three and chosma, a division; 
in allusion to the three -lobed 
labellum). ORD. Orchidee. s 
onotypic genus. The species is a very distinct an 
aa, stove, epiphytal Orchid. It may be grown in a 
well-drained pot or pan of fibrous peat and sphagnum. 
When in active growth, it must be kept moderately moist ; 
and, as it has no fleshy pseudo-bulbs, it must never be 
allowed to get quite dry. 
