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DiSTRiB. Genera, about 17, witli 100 species, cWefly tropical and sub; 



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Seeds exalbuminous. 



Petals entire Stamens 10. Fruit of usually spiny cocci. Leaves 

 abruptly pinnate ', \ \ 1. TmBULns. 



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Seeds albuminous. 



Pea so. .^Stamens 5. Leaves 3 -foHolate \ 2. Seetzekia. 



, Of r •, ^'''^'"cns 8-10. Ovules axile, superposed. Leaves 



-2-foiiolate f ^^ 3. Zyoophtllum. 



«tais btamens 10. Ovules lasal, collateral. Leaves 1-3- 



^'^"^^^'^ • •■ 4. Faqonia. . 





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1. TZtXBVZiVS, Linn. 



nne ^? K^ prostrate herbs, usually silky. Leaves stipulate, opposite, usually 

 whit ^^™Ptly pinnate. Flowers solitary, on pseudo-axillary peduncles, 

 fuff • ^^ y^^^^w- Sepals 5, deciduous (or persistent) imbricate. Petals 5, 

 on t^^^K^' patent, imbricate. Disk annular, lO-lobed ; stamens 10, inserted 

 littl 1 ^^^ of the disk, 5 longer opposite to the petals, 5 shorter with a 

 M21k!^ <^^tside; filaments filiform, naked. Ovary sessile, hirsute, 

 -i-iobed,_5-l2-celIed, cells opposite the petals; style short, pyramidal or 

 or sn'^' ^^^^^^^ ^"1-2 ; ovules superposed. Fruit S-anded, of 5-12 T\inged 

 testa ^^^^'^ I ^'^ tuberculate indebiscent cocci. Seeds obliquely pendulous, 

 short -^rf^^^^^^^ ' embryo without albumen, cotyledons ovate, radicle 

 ^ l^iSTKiB. A cosmopolitan genus of about 15 species. 



diam'' ^***^*«J«s, Zmn. , DC Prodr. I 703 ; perennial, flowers 1-2 in. 

 "A-j peduncles equalling or exceeding the leaves, cocci 2-4-horned. 



Kil-lip^M ^^^"^ Calcutta, Edgeworth; Western Peninsula, Madras, >S/iWfer, &c. ; 

 Tropic" -^^j^^^^^^e^; Tenasserim at Mergui, TFaWicA.— Distkjb. Throughout the 



ii]k^i{^°'^^ ^*°"* ' ^'■^nches 1-2 ft., procumbent or ascending, and leaves usually more 

 tate ^" '"7^^^® following. Leaflets often 7-8 pairs, subequal ; stipules falcate, acumi- 

 tbe j; '^^i'«« 4-i in., acuminate, silky. Petals obovate. Stigmatic lobes shorter than 



»eparat 1 1 °^ *'^® ^^^'^- ^«<^'^» tubercled and hairy, with usually 2 spines. Seeds 

 OBr»t/p, X,*^'^"«^'^i"8e septa —Regarded as a large flowered form of T. terrestris by 

 '"^U^i. Trop. Afr. i. 284). . 



Li j^" .l^^rrestris, Linn.; DC. Prodr. i. 703; annual or biennial, flowers 

 short ■^^•> peduncles shorter than the leaves, cocci with 2 long and 2 

 W 1 T^n^- ^«^2- <^- Gi^s. Fl. Bomb. 45. T. lanuginosus, Linn. ; DC. I.e.; 

 O'rLf-''^'^' 145; Wcdl. Cat. 6854 : Wight Lc. t. 98 ; III. i. 164; Bom. H. 

 ^^- 1. ^^%~Burm. Fl. Zeyl. 265, t. 106, f. 1. 



CEVLis"?""* ^'^'^~! ascending to 11,000 ft. in Westers Tibet; northern part of 



Pro8tro4 I™'"- Throughout the warm regions of the globe. 



Pedu^i ***t«Si Bdile ; DC. Prodr. I 703 ; annual, flowers \-\ in. diam., 

 t »n.i ^^ shorter than the leaves, cocci broadly winged.— .fiows. FL Oiitnt. 



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