- Trichosanthes. CUCURBITACEZE. ot 
361. Trichosanthes Linn. 
__ Herbaceous climbers ; leaves entire or palmately lobed, denticu- 
Bosh i fi Flowers dicecious, less often 
_ Monecious, white; male peduncles usually in axillary pairs, one 
_ taeemose, the other 1-flowered, caducous ; bracts large or small 
_ 0t0; female flowers solitary. Sepals 5, connate in @ long tube ; 
many, horizontal, on 3 parietal placentas ; style filiform ; stigmatic 
apex 3-fid or 6-fid. Frwit a lanceolate or globose, smooth, acute 
4 or obtuse berry. Seeds many, horizontal, embedded in pulp, 
ellipsoid ; margins sometimes angled. 
Breets of the male fi small or none :— 
Leaves cordate-oblong, acute, sinuate-dentate, but not angled or 
lobed, harsh ; anthers in male flowers free ; both male peduncles as @ 
ET LUG Grod |... seccscecosovcorssee coresget ope eens dioica. 
Leaves subreniform-cordate, usually 5-, sometimes 3-7 -lobed or -angled, 
puberulous or pubescent; anthers in male flowers connate ; earlier 
male peduncle (sometimes replaced by a female) 1-flowered, later one 
Tacemed :— 
Fruit ovoid-conical ..........ci..ccsseescseeseneseeteeeeenenent et” cucumerina- 
anguina. 
erat elongate-cylindrie, sometimes contorted .....--++++++17"" 
with . the male flowers large, wide-based, and sheathing the flowers ; 
€rs in male flowers connate; one male peduncle (sometimes absent) 
: “a9 the other racemed ; margin of leaf-blade dentate-serrate -— 
cut 8 ovate or obovate, lacerate or deeply serrate ; lea palmately 
ll into 5, sometimes 3 or 7, broad or (rarely) narrow lobes, occasion- 
*Y only 5-angled or almost entire, always glabrous peneath...palmata 
sie TRicHosanTHES prorca Roxb.; F- I. iii. 701; F. B.I. ii. 609 ; 
E. D, v. 586. 
In all the provinces. 
A rather extensive climber. Hind. Palwal; Beng- Patol ; 
_ Uriya Patal : 
