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Hotter parts of India, from the North-West provinces to Ceylon. — Distrib. 

 Iropical Africa and Australia. 



1 1 ^^^^^^^"^- Leaves tomentose on both sides, cordate, roundish or angled, 3-5l'»bed^ 

 lobes oblong lanceolate, coarsely serrate, lower 4 in. ; petiole 24 in. Peduncles solitary, 

 axillary, l-flowered, shorter than the petiole, jointed in the middle, often aggregated at 

 m ends of the branches. Bracteohs linear, shorter than the bell-shaped 5 cleft calyx. 

 oepaU lanceolate, 3-5-nerved, connate below the middle. Fttals yellow with a 

 purple spot twice or thrice longer than the sepals. Anthers re£:ularly arranged along 

 ine wliole^ lenc^th of the staminal tube. Capsule beaked, hairy, shorter than tlie calvx, 

 valves winged at the edge. Seeds tubercled.^iT. truncatus, Roxb., is a variety 

 ^th much smaller parts. > » j 



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-r-j - * r^i tea, uracteoies »-ioiree linear covereawitniawny momentum, 

 sepals lanceolate bristly, corolla large. 



:■ BiKMA, Wallich, , 



3 7^0^^*^^^* ^-^ ^^'^'^ conical, with a whitish base. Leaves 8 by 5 in., roundish, deeply 

 r y-parted, lobes lanceolate, serrate, glabrous, midrib prickly, upper leaves 3-part"l, 

 uppermost lanceolate ; petiole 1-2 in., lower 4 in. Stipules | in., linear, pilose, Pe^ 

 clntf!? ^ ^\' aggregated at the ends of the branches and with the bracteoles and calyx 

 cert ^n *^^^"^ tomentum. Sepals \ in. Corolla 6 in. diam., pink with a dark 

 /^re. Capsvle ovoid, pointed, shorter than the sepals. Seeds black, tubercled. 



nri^el^l**' ^^aanabinus, L. ; DC. Prodr. i. 450; annual or perennial, 

 oene t^'^*^"? glabrous, lower leaves entire upper lobed,niid-nerve glandular 



Bmih. FL 20. H. Wight 



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VflWV -^ •'-^^^^''^^ed ; apparently wild East of the Northern Ghauts.— Dibteib. Ciilti- 



narrow ^'abrous, prickly. Lower leaves corJate, upper deeply palmately lohed, lob.'S 

 Pointf 1 '*"o''j® ' P®*'°^® Pnckly, lower much longer than the blade. Stipules linear, 

 middlp /^<^"'ncles axillary, very short. Sepals bristly, lanceolate, connate below tlie 

 crimsnn * S'**"'^ ^^ t"e back of each. Corolla large, spreading, yellow with a 



r'^ ajrrefX^^" • ?• S"P^^^<^ globose, pointed, bristly. Seeds nearly ghil.rous.— All parts 

 " herbari -^ ''"^■- ^^® «'ems furnish fibre.— The specimen of IT. Wightianus in Wallich's 

 simple "^ '^ imperfect, but it is doubtless referable to this species; its leaves are 



^^' centV?" *i^ersifbllus, Jacq. Ic.Pl.RarA. 551 ; perennial, stem inibes- 

 rounrlM ^^^"^^^^ s^^rt stout conical prickles, leaves long-petioled scabrous 

 of th« V'" ^"giilar 3-5-lobed, bracteoles 10 linear very bristly half the lenjitli 

 Ma^t t^nr ^^•^^- i^l- Ind. iii. 208 ; DC. Prodr. i. 449 ? ; Bot, Reg. t 381 ; 



ASf'v,^?"'*'^-~^»»TRiB- Tropical Africa and Australia. 

 with hL •"^""•^^'■«hrub, with the branches, petioles and nerves of eaves armed 

 Joles a,^. *"""''''' prickles. Leaves variable, usually cordate, roundish, slightly lobed, 

 facemosl 'c-"PP,*^'" "*'»''y entire, lanoenlate. Peduncks very short bristly, axillary, 

 8ize of tl> ^^"^' ^"'ew-lahceolate, bristly not glandular. CoroUa 3 or 4 Imios tiie 

 smooth -lTi.'''''y''- <^<^P^ule ovoid, pointed, hispid, ultimately glabrescent. See.h 

 Calcutta r,; ? ^P*^c"aens from Birma do not materially difler from those grown in the 

 ^■Avh^u!T^ ^ '■^fe'- to De Candolle's plant with doubt, as he gives as a synonym 



■"*5 Cav., quite a different plant. 



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Pnckles, leaves deeply palmately divided, peduncle longer than the 



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