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6. T. semitrUoba, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. I 507 ; herbaceous or suffrutes- 

 cent, pubescent villous or glabrescent, leaves variable, fruit globose P^^^^Jy' 

 prickles hooked shaggy or ciliated scarcely dilated at the base. W<uL Cat. 



1075, partly. v v ■ 



Tenassekim ; at Tavoy, Gomez. — Distrib. A tropical weed. / ■^^'^ 



Stem hispidulous. Leaves cordate-ovate, sub-3-Iobed, coarsely and irregulflrly 

 toothed, 5-7 -nerved, downy, upper leaves smaller ovate-lanceolate; petioles 2-4 m^ 

 Flowers in clusters along the sides of the branches. Buds oblong. Sepals apiculate. 

 Fefals ciliate at the base. Stamens 10-15. Fruit the size of a large pea, "^^^rj^^ 

 bnrbed. — A variable plant as to pubescence and form of leaf, and closely allied to, 

 T. r/iomboideaj but differs in its larger fruit with bristly or shaggy spines. 



7. T. annua 



• anuua.1, iicaiijr jgxc 



mose covered with 



1. 



sjdnes. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 196. T. polycarpa, Wall. Cat 1079, 

 partly. T. trichoclada, Link, ex DC. Prodr. i. S07 ; Wall. Cat. 10»i. 





X. inaica, Ltam, met. vn. , 



Tropical Himalaya, from Simla to Sikkim ; the Khasia Mts., Assam, Concan, 

 AvA, and Andaman Islands. — Distrib. Malay Archipelago, Tropical Afnca. ^^i 



Stem 1-2 ft., with a line of hairs along one side, shifting at each joint. Leaves ^o 

 by 2-4 in.; petiole long. Stipules bu^mUXq. Perfwrtc'e^ 4 in., extra-axiliary, 3-floweieu^ 

 Flowers about J in. Fetals orange, nearly as long as the apiculate sepals, ^tam 

 10. Fruit the size of a large pea, glaucous, 4-celled ; spines glabrous. r^u-'^ 



leaves ovate-oblong or lanceolate 



cana. Bhime 



acuminate slightly cordate unequally toothed thinly stellate-hairy aw 

 densely beneath, peduncles extra-axillp-ry, sepals tomentose, fruit ^^^^^ ' 

 spines straight ciliated. , {' ' 



The Khasia Mt8. and Chittagong, fiooi. & Thorns,; Assam, Sincapore, 0. Thomson 

 —Distrib. Java, Hongkong. , , • cmwtw 



Stem hispid. Leaves 2 by | in. ; petiole 1 in. Flowers scarcely J m. '^^^^ j 

 2. Fruit the size of a small pea; prickles hispid, with a slender tran8p<ii 



10-12. 



straight point. 



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Fruit oblong. 





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9. T. negrlecta, W. tk A. Frodr. i. 75; annual, leaves roundish 

 stamens 5-10, fruit oblong indehiscent covered with hooked smnes cui 

 on the upper edge. ""'-^ .■- ^>:. r,, . ^ ... ^x„ ; okk T. oentanar,. 



Ferr, 

 T. pilosul , Thwaites 



Mast, in Oliv. Flor. Trop. Afr. I 255. i -V^.r^^ F.t 

 eneg. i. 93, t. 19 ; Ham. in Wall. Cat. p. 23/, 1070 ^ ^ 



^-.... , . ,.^„.^o ^nww. 401. . . J^r^ 



Northwestern India, Boyle; Western Peninsula ; Ceylon, at Trincom • 

 Distrib. Abyssinia, Senegal. o i i ,t serrate, 



Slightly hairy, branched. Leaves subcordate, acuminate or slightly S-lowa,^ .^ ,^ 

 hairy on both surfaces, especially beneath, upper lanceolate. Flowers f\^2^I\elov.' 

 lateral extra-axillary clusters. Sepals linear. Petals oblong, obtuse, glabrous 



Wight and Amott, in Prodr. i. 75, describe as TJ micrqphylla, a P^"^"?")?abn)a8; 



leaves 



flowers 



vu\y ma maiiormea contlition. sterns herbaceous, erect, "*" , I'^ringl'^ 

 oblong-lanceolate, not lobed, sharply serrate, glabrous; i^^^""f^ ^,7^,5^ eaten 

 , opposite? to the leaves; stamens 5-8.— It is perhaps a state ot i-i' , . . .- 



down by the cattle or goats. 





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