13. CUCURBITACE& [$. Tbichosanthbs.. 



2. Trichosanthcs, L". 



Climbers, sometimeB very large. Tendrils 2-5-fid. Fls. 

 •finite, males in long racemes (or raceme 1-fld. in dioica) 

 With a solitary male or a female at the base of the raceme, or 

 females separate. Calyx-tube above the ovary slender 

 tabular dilated above. Corolla rotate, tube very short, petals, 

 narrow fimbriate. Filaments 3. Anthers connate (free in 

 dioica) Fruit ellipsoid to elongate and globose, smooth. 

 Seeds many, compressed, sometimes angular at margins. 



Perennial, large. Eaceme with large sheath- 

 ing bracts 1. palmata. 



Annual. Bracts minute. Anthers connate 2. cucumerina. 



Annual. Anthers free. Eaceme nsually 

 only 1-flowered . . * ."•.,- . 3.. dioica. 



1. T- palmata, Boxb. Kaubutki K. ; Makal, J2"., Beng, 



A large climber with cordate denticulate often deeply lobed 

 leaves 3 by 5", white flowers 2|-3" diam. and bright scarlet 

 globose or ellipsoid fruits 2-2 J"" by 2" on axillary short stout 

 peduncles. 



Singbhum, valleys, and on the Eanchi plateau. Palamatt (the spinulose 

 variety at Miral). Santal Parganahs (Junju gara). FL Aug. Jb'r. Dec 

 Jany. Deciduous . 



L. simple or lobed, lobes acute or acuminate, (in one variety sub« 

 spinulose) smooth and bright green above and minutely pitted, (usually 

 appearing scabrous with small round discs — cystoliths— when dry) pale, 

 beneath, base 8-5-nerved. Petiole 1-2". Calyx-tube 1|-2|" long. Eind 

 .cf fruit \ n thick, seeds embedded in dark green pulp, oblong flattened 

 slightly narrowed at base, H''. 



Fr. and root boiled with mustard oil used for headache. 



% T. CUCumerilia, L. Bir Kaita, K. ; Ban potol, Beng. 



A slender succulent climber with long«petioled deeply 

 Cordate 5-7-angular or lobed and dentate leaves 3-4 7 diam. 

 White fls. f-li"" diam. with fimbriate petals and spindle- 

 shaped Bub-rostrate fruits 1-3" loug, green with white stripes^ 

 ultimately red, 



Singbhum valleys* Fl. Aug.Sepl Fr. Bept-Novi 

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