1 14 CALYCIFLOR.E. 



HAB. Cultivated. 



F L. After the rains. 



This vine furnishes in its fruit a very remarkable 

 vegetable production. It is about four feet long and 

 an inch in diameter, and has a great resemblance in 

 form and appearance to the yellow snake of the country. 

 I am not aware that it is adapted for any purpose. 



2. Trichosanthes pomiformis. Globular* 

 fruited Trichosanthes. 



Stem terete striated subglabrous, cirrhi simple^ 

 leaves ovate cordate acute sub-tri-lobate denticul- 

 ated, glabrous above, hispid especially along the 

 nerves beneath, £ fl. with the peduncle longer 

 than the petiole, ? fl. with the peduncle one- 

 third the length of the former, calyx campanulate 

 with the lobes lanceolate and spreading, petals 

 ciliated, fruit 3-celled, with each cell about 9- 

 seeded. 



Trichosanthes foliis denticulatis quandoque trilobis, 

 quandoque cordatis, fructu subrotundo. Browne, 354. — 

 T. amara? Linn. Sp. 1432. 



HAB. The higher mountains. 



FL. January — May. 



Stem climbing to a great height, with the branches sus- 

 pended from trees, especially along the road-sides in the 

 mountains. Leaves with the lobes subacuminate and api- 

 culated, 3-nerved with lateral nerves bifid : petiole com- 

 pressed. $ Flowers with the peduncle axillary, subsoli- 

 tary, one-flowered, an inch and a half in length. Flowers 

 large, greenish-white. Calyx subpentagonal, campanu- 

 late, hispid ; limb with 5 leaf-like lanceolate spreading 

 lobes alternating with 5 small teeth. Corolla tomentose 

 and ciliated, w T ith the lobes oval, obtuse, longitudinally 

 nerved. Stamens 5, triadelphous : filaments woolly : an- 

 thers large, cohering, very flexuose Rudiments of the 

 pistil none. 9 Flowers with the peduncle accompanying 

 that of the male flower, half an inch in length, thick, 

 terete, hispidulous, one-flowered. Calyx and corolla as 

 above. Filaments 3, subulate, length of the styles, woolly 

 with transparent hairs : anthers awanting. Ovary globu- 



