II A B. 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, S fl- with the peduncle longer 
than the petiole, 9 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. 
II A B. 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 subacuminatc 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 subpcntagonal, campanu- 
late, hispid ; limb with 5 leaf-like lanceolate spreading 
lobes alternating with 5 small teeth. Corolla tomentose 
and ciliated, with 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- 
