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angle or tooth. Tube of the calyx lined with a thickened disk, which 
surrounds the style and is in contact with it; it lines the staminal 
tube of the male flower. Berry 6—10 inches across, of a fine deep 
red-brown colour, covered with a very short tomentum; pulp whitish. 
Seeds erect, very large, each double, resembling a 2-celled nut, 
covered with an adherent vascular pulpy coat, which penetrates deep 
fissures in the ftee face of the larger seed. Testa hard, somewhat 
porous; the free surface of the larger seed deeply grooved in anasto- 
mosing channels; outer surface rather corky or spongy, inner hard, 
smooth, polished. The testa is slit longitudinally down its base to- 
wards the hilum for one half or one inch in the larger seed, and has 
a smaller corresponding slit on the smaller nut. A compressed pro- 
longation of the endopleurum (which is very soft, thick, and corky) 
projects a little through this fissure, and the radicle points towards it. 
Embryo flat, of the form of the seed, occupying a narrow slit in the 
centre of the endopleurum, nearly as broad as the cavity of the testa, 
surrounded by a delicate membrane. Cotyledons plain, white, very 
oily; radicle small, conical; plumule 2-lobed, lobes notched. The 
seeds are eaten by the natives of Sikkim, who call the fruit Kat’hior 
pot. An original specimen is in Sir William Hooker’s herbarium, 
from Buchanan Hamilton, labelled as from Penang, with the MS. 
name of “ Trichosanthes Theba.” Roxburgh’s trivial name of 
heteroclita has been retained, for though it was intended by its illus- 
trious author to imply that the plant varies from its congeners of the 
genus Trichosanthes, it will apply sufficiently well in future for a plant 
which is heteroclite in respect of the natural family (Cucurbitacez), to 
which it undoubtedly belongs. Blume’s descriptions are quite insuf- 
ficient to determine whether it belongs to his M. macrocarpa or 
hexasperma, or either. These plants are no doubt congeners of 
Hodgsonia, and considering that the H. heteroclita ranges from the 
level of the sea at Penang, lat. 6° North, to alt. 6000 feet in Sikkim, 
lat. 27° North, the probabilities are great that it is also found in Java. 
The leaves vary from 2-lobed to 5-lobed, usually the latter, and the 
lobes are much acuminate, rarely blunt, {coarsely serrated towards the 
tips or quite entire. 
The genus is named in honour of B. H. Hodgson, Esq., F.L.S., 
Resident at Dajiling, where the plant was discovered, and whose 
scientific services in the Himalaya justly merit the honour of so splen- 
did a plant. 
