TILIACEAE 841 
Peduncles each with a conspicuous adnate bract: filaments forked: 
fruit nut-like. 3. TILIA. 
1. CORCHORUS [Tourn.] L. Herbs or small shrubs. Leaf-blades serrate. 
Sepals 5, or rarely 4, unappendaged at the tip. Petals 5 or isi 4, naked at 
the dus, larger than the sepals, yellow. Anther-sacs contiguous. Ovary elon 
gate. Ovules numerous. Capsule many-seeded.—About 40 ee mostly tropi- 
cal UTES. JEW'S-MALLOWS.—The fibrous bark of some species form at least 
part of the jute of commerce. 
Capsule long (4 c re) and narrow, neither angled nor winged: pc es 
without basal apeendiaes: the teeth not bristle-tipped : pe about 1 mm 
etals of a spatulate type, often linear-spatulate: 
with a single beak. 1. C. orinocensis. 
Petals of an obo vate type, often rhombic-obovate: capsule 
with 4 o n MT — 2. C. siliquosus. 
leaf-blades with a Dott of basal bristle tipped ae the 
teeth bristle-tipped : seed much less than 1 mm. lon 3. C. acutangulus. 
1. C. orinocensis H. B. K. Lm ee sparingly branched: leaf-blades ovate, 
elliptic, or lanceolate, 2-6 c ong, acute or acutish, crenate-serrate, short- 
to narrowly linear-lanceolate, 5—6.5 es 
or rarely Is spatulate, mostly Lard io 00 
- eapsule slender, A Tp) 
long, subulate Patr finely pubescent.— N ie 
Ham S, waste-places, and  roadsides, dA SN 
Coastal um and southwestern provinces, 
la. to Tex. ae ri (W 
S. 4.)—A1l yea 
2. C. siliquosus L. Stem often end 
much-branched:  leaf-blades ovate, oval- 
ovate, or elliptie-lanceolate, mostly 1-3 em. 
long, sometimes longer, mostly aeute, ser- 
etioled: - 
sepals nearly linear, 6-8 . ; - ; 
e: petals Pu EE 4.5-5.5 mm. long: nee slender, 5-8 em. long, 
4-beaked at the truncate apex, obscurely pubes —Hammocks, roadsides, 
and cult. ade S Fla.—(W. I., Mex., C. A., S. 4. pu ie 
C. acutangulus Stem finely pubescent, 1 m. tall or less, widely 
od leaf- blades elliptic. ins ovate, or rue -ovate, 2.5-7.5 em. long, 
acute or acutish, crenate-serrate, slender-petioled: flower-clusters nearly sessile: 
ate, 4-5 mm 
te 4—4.5 mm. 1 : 
long: bci stout, 1-2 cm. long, the angles pid each with 5 spreading or 
of E. L—(. I., 
2. TRIUMFETTA [Plum.] L. Herbs or shrubs. Leaf-blades mostly 
toothed and lobed. Sepals 5, often appendaged at the tip. Petals 5, each with 
a pit at the base, often shorter than the sepals, yellow, or rarely wanting. 
Anther-saes contiguous. vary globular. vules few. Capsules few-seeded.— 
About 70 species, of warm and tropical regions.—BURWEED. 
Twigs hirsute: pci ae glabrous or with scattered hairs: the prickles as long 
as its diameter 1. T. semitriloba. 
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Twigs softly Pups eit: capsule-body einereous-tomentulose: the . 
priekles shorter than its diamet 2. T. Bartramia. 
