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394 XXVIII.' TiLiACE^. (Maxwell T. Masters.) [CohmHa. 



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mergrieiisis 



1-3-nerved scabrous above puberulous beneath. . ; v\ ^^ 



' TENAsSEiuM,'at Mergui, Griffith. ',^' *^^' 



' Leaves 6-8 by 2 in.; petiole 4 in. Fruit 1^ in. diam., downy, 3-winged.— Imper- 

 fect specimens only seen. 



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a EBZNOCABPUS, Nimmo. 



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A tree. Leaveslon^ ^ 

 times 3-lobed Flowers 



g-petioled, roundifeh^cordate, toothed, 5-7-nerved, some- 

 vers large, yellow, in lar^e terminal panicles, be]^^? ^ 

 distinct. Petals 5, clawed. Stamens numerous, springing from a raisea 

 torus, free, or sliglitly united at the base. Ovart/ 3-celled, cells 2;0VUlea , 

 style filiform, stigma minute. Fruit indehiscent, woody, triangmar, 

 3-winged, spiny, 1-celled by abortion. Seed solitary, pendulous,^ albumen 

 fleshy ; cotyledons ovate, flat.— The only species 



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.1. E. Nimmoanus, Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 21 ;' Beddoym 

 t. 1 1 ; Dalz. d- Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 27. - 



Western Peninsula ; the Concan and Dekkan, Stochs, &c. 7? /' aLs in 



Leaves 4 by 44 in., glabrous; petiole 1-4 in. Stipules caducous. Bra^^ o 



tontentose, ovate-oblong. Flower-luds oblong. Flower I'm. diam. iTinr j 



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9. TXtZiriarSTTA, Linn. :■- 



.' Herbs or undershrubs, generally more or less covered with ^^^^^^^^ ^^^l^ 

 leaves serrate, simple or lobed. Flowers yellowish, in dense ^^^?- ?L^ 

 15, oblnng, concave. Petals 5. Stamens 5-35, springing fr^^a a fltshy, i*> ' 

 glandular torus. Ovary 2-5-celled, cells S-ovuled ; style filitoOT> siigu^ 

 6-toothed. Capsule globose or oblong, spiny or bribtly, indeliisceut or 

 valved. Seeds 1-2 in each cell, pendulous, albuminous ; embryo st^u^^ » 

 cotyledons flat.— Di&trib. A genus of about 40 very variable species, m 

 troj)ical weeds. 



* Fricit globose rarely ovoid. 



1. T. tomentosa 



suffruticose more 





. 103 ; herbaceous (J 



re or less downy, leaves variable, fruit globose covere ' 

 strai-ht spines. Mast, in Oliv, Flor. Trap. Afr. i. 258. l- ^Y.^Vy^. 

 Prodr. i. 507 ?. T. pilosa, Wall. Cat. 1080, T. pilosa, van a, ^^f ?/%f ^37, 

 31. T. vestita. Wall Cat 1078, 1, 2. T. indica. Ham. ^^f'^^'t.u 

 1078 D ; W. <k A. Prodr. i. 74 T. oblonga, Wall in Dm Prodr. ^-^^^ 



Eastekn Bengal; Silhet, Wallicli; Simla, Govan; AssAvaj Griffith 



ovate, acnmmate, sometimes lobed, crenulate, base rounded, 5-7-ntTVcd,«PP*^ ^ ^^.^^^^^ 

 lanceolate, serrate, 3-nerved ; petiole about 2 in. Stipules Uwceolaie. K^'>^^\ ^ fr^\X 

 in interrupted spikes. Sepals apiculate, douselv stellate-hairy. '^^^I";" , ' aW tW 

 the size of a large pea, hispid, spines ciliate along the lower e^%^y ^. fw the Ainca" 

 upper, with a straight transparent bristle-poiut.— It is not quite certaiutnai ^.^^ 

 and Indian plants are specifically identical. Perhaps only a woolly state ^01 ^-.i 



2. T. pUosa, Roth iV^/n;. )S/?.223; herbaceous, bristly, bristl^^^^^^^ 

 the base, lower leaves lobed upper ovate or ^vate-lanceoiaie ^j^.^ 

 toothed, fruit globose tomentose covered with long hookeospj ^^^, 

 . jire glabrous along the upper hispid along tte lower edge, jj • ^1' //. 25. 

 i 74. T. pilosa,-w. ^, 2 WaW ^«u7n.- 31 : DaU. & GxhC Bm^^ ^ 





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