547. Momordica balsamina.—Balsam apple.

547. MOMORDICA BALSAMINA Linné.—BALSAM APPLE. This is a climbing East Indian plant, cultivated in our gardens for the sake of its cucumber-like fruit, which is often used in domestic practice as a vulnerary.

A Manual of Organic Materia Medica and Pharmacognosy, 1917, was written by Lucius E. Sayre, B.S. Ph. M.