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GENUS X. MOMORDICA, 
Moneeia Monhandrfin: Sez: Byat : 
Derive. From Mordeo, to bite. The seeds appear as if bitten. 
Gen. Cuar Flowers montécious or ditefious: calyx 5-cleft: 
corolla much longer than the calyx and cleft dowh to the talyxe 
segments. Mate. Stamens triadelphous. Fem, Style 3-cleft: 
fruit fleshy, bursting when ripe, with or, without elastic force: seeds 
enveloped in fleshy arfl, es 
; (1) M. brotca: (Rozb.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. Pp 348.—Dee. prod. iit. Pp. 312.— 
Roxb. fl. Ind. TfL. pp. 709% : 
Engrae. Wight’s Teon. t; 505, 6.—Rheeds, Mal. VIII t, 12 
(Fem.) t. 18. (Male,). : 
Spec. CHar, Ditecious: root tuberous; perennial: stems glar. 
brons; leaves, longish-petioled, cordate at; the base, fom entire, to, 
3-4-lobed, toothed, upper side. slightly scabrous, under sitouth of, 
nearly so:. petioles, without, glands: peduncles slender, with entire, 
bracteples: male with the bratteole ¢lose to the flower, hovded and. 
concealing the lower part of the flower; female with a smallish one 
near the base: Calyx-segments subulate: petals lanceolate: fruit 
ovate, muricated : seeds oval, strrounded by a lafgé ed aril: flowers 
large, yellow. ie 
Peninsula and othet patts of India. Flowering nearly all the 
year. The tender gréen- fruit- and tuberous roots of the female 
plant, weighing from two to three pounds, are eaten by. the natives. 
(2) M. »ixra, (Rozb.) 
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Tdent. Roxb. fl. Ind, TL p. 709:-—W, & A. prod; Lp, 849, 
Syn. M, Cochinchinensis, Spreng.—Muricia. Gochinchinensis, 
Loup. Dec. prods VU. p, 318. 3 
‘Engrav, Bot. Mag. t 5145. 
“Spec. Csr. - Dicecious: root tubetotts, perérinial: stems glas 
brous: leaves 3—5-lobed or palmite, glabrotis: lobes oblotig, some= 
times toothed: petigles,and margin of: the leaves; near the base fut- 
hished with glands: pedunclés with a latge cticullate bra¢teol¢ close 
to the flower ‘and! enclosing its lower: pait: bracteoles’ ematginate; 
slightly scabrous! calyx campapqlate: petals ovete : frait oval, 
sharply, muricated: flowers large, cream=¢olaured. 
In. thickets about, Calcutta, flowering. in- the fainy. season. 
bed (3) "M. Paixa. (Ham) 
Ident. Don's Mill. LIL. p. 36, 
