• GOLDEN MOMordi cX'"""'" 
momordioa balsamina. 
T his is another of thofe climbing Plants of the C 
wildnefs cover trees. The Fruit is the moft ftrikin ‘n their native 
in Tubercles ; and of a golden yellow. This is its firft ftftr" H rais'd 
tiful; but when it burfts with extream ripenefs, and /hews the iLcl^r 
fcene of wonder : the crimfon upon that is much more ftrikin<r 
natural outfide ; and the variety the white Seeds form adds f 1!" ' '*’® 
feem fo many crimfon lumps under the Skin, while they are c ° "^’d^ 
very peculiar way originally : but when that burfts, and lets thTm ont.^th^arSc'^ow' 
The Plant is weak, and always gets fupport : but like the preceding wh v ^ 
faften’d on a tree, it climbs to the full height of it • and mv ^ ii • 
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k, .i.o.v.igi.. of .1,0 r,„i, , ooj „ .i.i. ,k .-v-'y 
Tho Flowon wSich cm, ,hi. P|.„, h groat p,of.t„, ^ j , 
lead us to another clafs m the Se.xual Syftem. They might aonear all aClo ’ ^ 
0,0 So. *0 .koi, 1..0. p„. i. raal'd, „ S.'d o;:," ZS’ 
c on only, and m others only the female : 'tis thus in Melons, and a multicui o7oZ 
Plants and as m thofe kinds, fo in the prefent, the firll mention’d, or male Flowers fall 
off without any farther ufe ; the female only being fucceeded by Fruit. 
The male and female Flowers have equally a fmall Cup cut into five Segments • and one 
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dage on each fide, and the third has only one of thefe appendages. 
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‘he Flower is the Ruff " "f T r’" 
iment of a Fruit, which afterwards ripens to the form here figur’d. 
and in Pl.ants, the Filaments and Style are plac’d in the fame Flower ; 
tion of th”f *' ^ charadleris’d from the number, and iiifertion, or propor- 
ine imn '‘te in feparate Flowers ; but thofe be- 
t’Pon d'S' A ^ ^ Monoecia : in others yet, the male Flowers grow 
the lily j female, tho’ of the fimc Species ; as in Hemp, Spinach, and 
'‘'=l'ke; and thefe are call’d therefore Dioecia. 
T'her ’ 
ooecious Claf°^ ^ tnorc lingular Plant than this, or more worth culture in the whole Mo- 
Momordicaporaiggng,,,,,^;^ cubcrcuktis , 
follis villofu longiruJinalircr p.iltnatls. 
£, y .•* V ^ 
Indian Buiram 
