*468 
spherical, size of an orange, dark-red: flowers large, white, with 
fringed petals. : 
“Near the mouth of the Megna river. 
(4)T. weterocnita, (Roxb) 
Edent. Roxb. fi. Ind. IIL. p, 705. 
“Spec, Cuan. Pererinial, scandent: leaves '$=5-lobed; smooth on 
“both sides ; lokes entire, oblong or’ triangularly ovate, ‘aguminated ; 
oS ‘shorter than the leaves, reddish-coloured, with ‘conical, ¢o- 
oured stipules : male ra¢emes axillary, ‘solitary, about the Terigth 
of the leaves, bearjng several alternate ‘subsessile large flawers near 
~the' apex: bracts’ solitary, oblong, Acute: calyx rusty- -pubéstent 
outside; exterior margins of the Gatalla fringed with long spiral 
pendulous yellow threads; female flowerg sometimes on a different 
plant: peduncles axillary, 1-flaweréd, ‘when rdcemase much shorter 
than the male: fruit spheroidal, somewhat villous, pointed, the size 
ofa shédduck :’Sbeds 6, * anéqually 2labed. 
Silhet; Howering hebiy* alf the Year. 
(7) T. OFFICINALIS, (Ham. y) 
Ident. Don's Mill. TIT. p. 38. 
Spec.’ OuaR. Climbing, scabrous’ leaves ‘eordite, denticulated': 
-petioles’ hispid : ‘female peduncle 1-flaweréd, 'solitary ; fruit fotind, 
-Bmooth. 
*Chilthari‘in ‘Assim. 
“GENUS XU. CITRULLUS. 
Maneeia Monadelphig. Sex: Syat: 
Gen. Cuar. Oorolla persistent, 5-parted, subrotate : anthers 
triadelphous, _ 2-celled: style “gecleft : stigma “obcordate, © convex; 
(nit féshy or dry and fibrous, many-seeded. 
(1) ©. corocynrnya, (4rn.) 
Ident. Hook, Jour. Bot. UL igi (ed. ‘gat. ye. 
act 
Besiat. Wight's reon. t. 498. 
Spec. Cuar. Creeping; stems glabrous; léaves glabrous ‘and 
“gmoath ‘above, ¢opiotsly muricated beneath with small ‘white’ ‘and 
often ‘hairchearing | tubercles, many-cleft and lobed: ‘tendrils short 
“and simple: femule flowers solitary: calyx-tube globose’ and his- 
pid: sediments narrow-linear : fruit globose, glabrous, very bittér, 
variegated with green and'yellow: flowers yellow. 
‘Eastérn Decean and: Guzerat, Peninsula. Banks of the Jurina, 
