466° 
Srxc. Cuan. Leaves~cordate; triangular or hastate, sometimes 
lobed at the base, acuminated, coarsely toothed: tendrils simple t 
female peduncles 1-flowered,- solitary, male ones racemose: fruit 
round, with a few scattered prickles. 
Goalpara.: 
(4) M. Hamitroniana. (Wall), 
‘Edent!) Dot’s Mill, IIL: p. 36. : 
‘Stic. Cuan. Climbing: leivés cordate, toothed, ¢renated, aens 
minated: bract toothed: peduncles 1-flowered, solitary: tendrils 
simple: fruit hispid: flowers large. 
Goalpara. Gongachora. 
(5) M. rusirrora. (Rdxb.) 
dent. Roxb;'fi/-Ind. It. p. 711/ 
Spec. Cuan. Stems creeping, roughish with short hairs, 5 
sided: leaves roundish, 3-5-lobed or angled, with acute teeth‘on , 
the' margins, scabrous on both sides? male peduncles solitary, axil- 
laty : females ‘solitaty, shért-peduncled: fruit oblong, 10-ribbed, 
rotgh with hairs, orange-coloured when ripe! steds enveloped in - 
soft datk-greenish aril : flowers large, pure whites 
Forests about Dacca, flowering in the rains. 
GENUS XI. TRICHOSANTHES. 
Moncecia Monadelphin. Sez: Syst 
Derive: From Thrix, hair, and Anthos, a flower, in allusion to 
the fringed corolla. 
Gen. Cuar. Flowers rarely. dicecious. Marz. Calyx some- 
what clavate, 5-cleft; segniénts subulate: corolla 5-partite, ciliat- 
ed: stamens 5,: triadelphous: anthers very flexuose. Fra. Calyx 
5-toothed: corolla 5-partite, cut and -ciliated : ‘style 3-cleft’: sti 
mas oblong-subulate : fruit oblong or globose: niale flowers usually 
racemose, rarely solitary; female generally solitary, rarely race- 
mrosé: 
(1) T. wervirortas (Linn:) | 
Taent. W.S A. prod. I. p.. 349.—-Dee. prod. III. p. 314 
Engrav. Rheede Mal. VIT. t. 17. 
Spec. Cuar. Stem smoothish: leaves cordate-acuminate, mi- 
nutely and sharply bristle-toothed, smooth, matked: beneath ‘with 
prominent veins and nerves: tendrils 2-cleft: male flowers long« 
pedicelled: peduncle sometimes branched: female flowers solitary ¢ 
fruit ovate. ; 
Malabar. 
