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Wall Cat ion Y, partly. G subscandens, Wall. Cat 1074;' C. sestuan^ 

 m. Madr. ; Walt Cat p. 237, 1074, ' . * ' ' / 



Southern provinces of the Western Peninsula, Wight; Ava, Wallich; Ceylox, 

 Trincomalee, Thwaltes. — Distkib. Abyssinia. .' - ' *v 



* Leaves 2-3 by 1-1| in., thinly pilose, cordate, sometimes oblique, ovate acuminate, 

 (!entate (almost precisely as in Urtica dioica). Fedunclefi extra-axillary, 2-3-tlowerea. 

 Capsule 1 in., bent downwards, hairy.— Closely allied to C. irilocularis but with a mucQ 

 shorter pod. ' 



6. C. fascicularis, Lam.; DC. Prodr. i ,^05 ; annual, capsule short sub- 

 cylindric puberulous shortly beaked, valves nearly destitute of internal 

 partitions. Boxh. Fl Ind. ii. 582 ; Thivaites Eniim. 401 ; Dalz & wm. 

 Bomh. Fl 24 ; Wall Cat 6312. C. linearis, Wall Cat 1070, ixtm- I -V 



Throughout the hotter parts of India from Banda, Edgeworth, to Bengal, tne 

 Western Peninsula and Ceylon. — Djstrib. Tropical Australia and Africa. 



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Leaves 1-2 by \-\ in., oblong lanceolate, serrated; petioles very ^^^^^J^^^^ 

 Peduncles o^^Oh\iQ the leaves, 2-5-flowered. Sepals -^^^ in. Stamens b-lO. ^^^ ^ 

 ^1 in., 3 or 4 together, each 3-4-viilved, valves downy. 



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6. C. Anticborus, Rceiisck. Nomencl BoL ed. iii. 158 ; woody, perenniuj, 



mucb branclied, branches 



beaked. 



prostrate, capsule cylindric elongate i?^|^Ke<i. 

 Boiss. Fl Orient, i. 846; Mast in Oliv. Fl Trop, Afr. i. 263. Anticlioius 

 depressus, Linn.; EC. Prodr. i. 504. Corchorus humilis, 3limro uon. 

 Agrevs. Appendix 25; Wight Ic. 1073; Ealz. & Gils. Bomb. Fl 25 



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North AA^estern India from Sindh, Stoclcs, and the Punjab, Vic^^V^^^'-^^X^^T^r^ 

 Western Peninsula, in Kattywar, Guzerat and the Deccan.— Distuib. Atignaui^w , 



Aden, Tropical Africa, Cape de Verde Isles. . ;, ' Nrt/iish 



Branches tortuous, imbricate, 6-7 in. Leaves ^-f by \ in., shortly petioled xounu.^^ 

 plicate, crenate-serrate, base 3-nen'ed. ■ Pec/wncie^ short, stout, opposite tlieiea^ 

 ' Capsules 4-14 in., straight or curved, 4-valved. "^'^ " ai ^>^v*^- - 



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C. trilocularis, Burm. Fl Ind. t. 37, f. 2. 



Generally distributed.— Distrib. Australia and Africa. ._^ . ];near- 



Variable as to habit, pubescence and form of leaf. Leaves 1-3 by 4 Yn''j,j_Of 



oblong or lanceolate ; petiole 4-i in. Peduncles 1-4-flowered. ^^^^^^^ i' i. acumin- 

 this species ^^'ight and Arnott recoLuise three form^ viz. :— a, 'eavesJanceojaie ^^ 

 ate, A\'ail. Cat. 1073. /3, leaves linear obbmg or linear-lanceolate, C -^ «/*"?' V^ 

 C linearis, Wall. Cat. 1070, C. y, leaves oblong or obovate cuneate at ine 

 The three forms merge one into the other. 



8. C. acutang-uluB, 



gate O-aii^Icd 3 of the ai 



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Cat. 1069, 1074 D, E; Wight 'lc.l^ 739; Thwaites Enurti. » ■ ^ ./^^j-^^,; 

 Gibs. Brnih. FL 25 ; Miq. h Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 194. C. tefnar^^/ ^j.. 

 in Wall. Cat. p. 237, 1074 C. C. fuscus, lioxh, I/ort. Beng. 42; J'^:,\y., . 



b%2 ; Ham. in Wall. Cat. IQG9. . . '** 'r Tropic*! 



ThrouAout the hotter parts of India and Ceylon.— Distkib. AustraJia,^ / 

 Arica, West Indies. '...,■ „n,1 acuminate, 



^Leaves 1-3 hj f-1 in., more or less halrv, ovate anS acute, or "^'T^S ^""subulate, 

 .eerrate, wuL or without basal lobes; petiole i in., hairy. yS'^il'"'^* "" 





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