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arming of the capsule probably afford better characters than the 
variable foliage; it should always be mentioned whether the 
capsules described are ripe or not. Wight and Arnott hint at 
the probability of the number of East Indian species being 
much exaggerated, for these authors remark, that characters 
drawn from the suppression of parts of the flower and shape of 
the leaves, are not to be depended upon. ~ 
7. Triumfetta, sp. ?—Sierra Leone, Don. 
Caulis lignosus, ramosus, pilis patulis stellatis velutino-pubes- 
cens. Folia breve petiolata, petiolo 4 unc. longo, 1}-polli- 
caria, basi lata, ad petiolum cordata, utrinque dense velutino- 
tomentosa, coriacea, triloba, inzequaliter serrata, segmentis 
infimis glandulosis. Capsula immatura uncinato-setosa, inter 
setas pubescens; matura globosa puberula, breviter setosa, 
3-5-cocca ; coccis l-spermis; seminibus majusculis. : 
In a genusal ready involved in so much confusion, I unwil- 
lingly insert another doubtful species. The present is out of 
flower, but would appear very distinct from its congeners. 
Two other species of this genus are mentioned and first 
described by Guillemin and Perrottet, T. cordifolia and T. pen- 
tandra, both from Senegal. Schumacher and Thonning have 
also described one from Guinea, under the name of T. mollis ; 
a specimen from Senegal of Heudelot’s is either this species 
or one closely allied to it, and another gathered by Don, at 
Sierra Leone, in leaf only, if not the T. cordifolia, may be 
distinct from all the foregoing. 
1. Grewia carpinifolia, Juss. Ann. Mus. 2. p. 91. t. 51. f. 1.— 
Cape Coast, St. Thomas and Accra, Vogel and Don. Also 
a native of Senegal and Oware. 
Grewia, as was to be expected, is a large W. African genus, 
whence the poverty of the Niger collections in one so Con- 
spicuous and easily collected is remarkable. Besides the above; 
six species are enumerated, chiefly however from Senegal, Y: 
1. G. betulefolia, Juss., closely allied to, and probably identical 
with the G. populifolia, Vahl, and if so, a plant ranging from 
Senegal, through Arabia and Persia, to the Peninsula of India ; 
2. G. corylifolia, Guill. et Perr. (G. villosa, Hort. Mal.) also 
