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ftows small, yellow. Sepds 4-5. P^^oZs 4-5, glandless. Stamens free, 

 indefiuite or rarely twice the number of the petals, springing from a short 

 toru^ Ovari/ 2-6-celled, style short, stigma cup-shaped. Caj)sule elon- 

 gated, slender or subglobose, smooth or prickly, loculicidally 2-5-valved, 

 sometimes with transverse partitions. Seeds numerous, albuminous, pen- 

 dulous or horizontal ; embryo curved.— Distrib, A genus of about 35 

 species, for the most part widely dispersed throughout the tropics. 



, * Capsule globose, not beaked. 



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1^1 ®' ^^PS^^a-rls, Z. ; DC. Prodr. i. 505 ; annual, capsules oblate sut- 

 globose 5-celIed. Roxh. Fl Ind. ii. 581; W. dh A. Frodr. I 73; Wall, 

 taU 1071 ; 1071, B, C ; Wig/U Ic, t. 311 ; ThwaUes Enum, 31 ; Dalz. dc GUjs. 

 '^onib. Fl. 25 : Jliq, FL Lid. Bat i. pt. 2, 194. C. Marua, ffam. in Wall. Oat. 

 ^'^11 '—Humph. Amb. Y. t. 78, t I, 



Thronghout the hotter parts of India; cnUivated !n most tropical countries. 

 • Leaves 2-4 by f-1 in., Klabrescent, oblong, acuminate, coarsely toothed, base gene- 

 rally prolonged into tail-like appendages; petiole 1^ in. Stipules J-^ in. Capsule 

 ^nnkled, rauncate, 5-valved, valves without transverye septa. Seeds few in each cell. 



lields the fibre known as Jute. 



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Capsule elongated, beak entire. 



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Aiiaigenousin many parts of India. — Generally distributed by cultivation in all tropical 



countries 



X-eai'e*2-4 by 1-2 in., nearly glabrous, ovate-lanceolate, 3-5-nerved, serrate, the 

 . ?^*^^^Lserratures prolonged into long sharp points; petiole 1-2 in., pilose. Stipules 

 shftSr • the petiole. Pt'rfwHc7€s 1-3-flowered ; shorter than the petiole, Sepals 

 cvr 7-^*'*'"^^^' -ftfaZ-9 jellow, spathulate. longer than the sepals. Capsule 2 in., 

 in Rt r^"' ^?"^^^^ed-~Cultivated as a potherb, or for its fibre (Jute). The plant varies 

 in tK ^'^^' "airiness, &c. Arnott (in herb.) corrects an error into which he had fallen 

 **ivuf ^^^•''"''^raent of the pod, in the Prodromus, and which, as corrected, should read— 

 i^s 10-12 times longer than broad." 



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withn.,* u f ^y 1 '"• elliptic-oblonir or oblong lanceolate, crenate-serrate with or 



oppSS r i^'^^^ ; J'^tiole very short, pilose. Peduncles^ i-!;^-^!''' L'J ^ll 



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imT ?^'^^.^"'^"ceolate caps'ule/in pairs 3-angled. To the latter belongs Wallich's 



It would appear, however, that these are mere individual variations. 



8li"htlv ^'^'ticaBfollus, W. dh A. Frodr. I 73 ;' annual, capsules terete or 



-^'alvpii^f^S^^^ «ot exceeding one inch pilose beaked, beak erect entire, 



^ ^ith transverse internal partitions. '■ Thwaites Emm-^l- C. olitonus, 



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