Vriumfetta.~] xxvu. tiliaceje (masters). 257 



>right yellow. Stamens 10-15. Fruit globose, the size of a large pea, 4-6- 

 'alved ; valves studded with hooked, pilose prickles. — T. angulata, Lam. Diet. 

 ii. 421. T. cordifolia, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. i. 92. t. 18. T. lottgiseta, 

 juill. et Perr. 1. c. i. 92. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Barter! Gambia, Boteler ! Lagos, Barter! Abbeo- 

 uta, Irving ! Sierra Leone, Heudelot! 



Lower Guinea. Angola, Br. Welwitsch ! 



A widely distributed tropical weed, some of whose varieties approach those of T. rhom- 

 oidea, but have larger fruit. Guillemin and Perrottet's T. lovgiseta only differs in the 

 ;ngth of the prickles, the 6-valved fruit being, as far as I have seen, an exceptional oc- 

 urrence. 



7. T. pilosa, Roth ; DC. Prod. i. 506. Herbaceous or shrubby, 4-5 

 t. high, more or less densely covered with yellowish villi. Leaves on short 

 'illose stalks, roundish or oblong, subcordate, obscurely 3-lobed. - lobes 

 leltoid, acute, irregularly serrate, villose above, densely tomentose below ; 

 e-6 in. long, 3-4 in. wide. Flowers large, nearly 1 in. in length, arranged 

 n terminal clusters. Sepals linear-oblong, apiculate. Petals half the length 

 if the sepals, ciliate at the edge of the claw. Stamens 12. Disk lobed, 

 iliated at the margins. Fruit globose, the size of a cherry, 4-valved ; valves 

 illose, studded with numerous long, shaggy, subulate, hooked prickles. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Roth ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola, Dr. Welwitsch I 



The plant occurs also in India, and is variable in the shape of the leaves and in the degree 

 f hairiness. De Candolle erroneously describes it as apetalous, and as having indehisccut 

 uit. 



8. T. rhomboidea, Jacq. ; DC. Prod. i. 507. Herbaceous or shrubby, 

 labrous, villose, stellate-pilose or velvety. Stalks of lower leaves nearly as 

 mg as the blades. Leaves polymorphous, often differing much on the same 

 necimen, ovate, cordate or rhomboid at the base, acute or somewhat 3-lobed 

 t the apex, palmately 3-5-7-nerved, unequally serrate ; the lower serratures 

 ometimes reflexed and glandular ; surfaces exceedingly variable in regard to 

 egree of pubescence. Flowers numerous, in cymose clusters along the sides 

 nd ends of the branches. Pedicels short. Flower-buds oblong or some- 

 hat clavate, apiculate. Sepals hispid or downy, oblong, apiculate. Petals 

 ellow, oblong, tapering at the base. Stamens 10-15. Capsules globose, 

 le size of a small pea, albido-tomentose, 3-5-valved ; valves covered with 

 nooth, hooked, conical prickles. — T. velutina, Vahl, Symb. iii. 62. T. glan- 

 ulosa, Lam. Diet. iii. 421. T. trilocularis, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 



93. T. Vahlii, Poir. Diet. Suppl. iii. 300. T. mollis, Schum. et Thonn. 

 1. Guin. 239. T. Thonningiana, DC. PI. Rar. Gen. 64. ? T. angulata, 

 look, f. in Fl. Nigrit. 235, nee Lam. T. trilocularis, Poxb. Fl. lnd., fide 

 took. f. in Fl. Nigrit. 235. T. eriophlebia, Hook. f. Fl. Nigrit. 235. 



Widely distributed throughout tropical Africa, whence specimens have been received from 

 most every collector. It is also a native of the West Indies, Arabia, East Indies, 

 c. The plant is excessively variable, now apparently an annual, at other times a rigid 

 anching undershrub. Leaves of almost every possible size, form, and quality of pubes- 

 :nce, now glabrous or nearly so, pilose, hispid, tomentose, sometimes covered with 

 eam-coloured tomentum along the nerves of the leaf principally (fl eriophlebia, Hook, f.), 

 other times densely covered with thick tomentum. Hence it is not to be wondered at 

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