BEN IN CASA

(Lat.), n. f. Ba-nen-ka*/za8, Named after Ben in casa, an Italian nobleman, Of Savi, a conus of cucurbitaceous ants with polygamous and monoecious flowers having a quitue: Ra, undulate-toothed calyx, à wheel-shaped, 5-parted corolla, 5 triadelphous stamens, and a style with a 3-lobed stigma, The fruit is a tciboutars many-seeded pepo. [B, 19, 180.|—B. cerifera. Syn.: Cucurbit a cerifera fesecher A peronaial species growing in the East Indies, with large golden-yellow flowers, and an ovate, cylindrical, or pear-shaped greenish fruit, often exceeding a foot in length and more than half a foot in thickne , and with obovate oblong, oily, bitterish seeds. The plant is used as a remedy for fevers, thoracic difficulties, vertigo, ete., and the seeds are employed in dysuria. The rind of the fruit is used by the Chinese in consumption, asthma, and chills, and the seeds are employed to relieve colic, spasms, ete, [B, 19, 180; L, 75.]