Triumfetta. | TILIACEH (Harv.) 227 
roundish-ovate or cordate, obtuse, unequally dentato-crenate, 3-5-nerved 
at base, reticulate and harsh on the upper, softly pubescent on the lower 
side ; peduncles solitary, axillary, longer than the petioles, forked, 
hispid, 2-4-flowered ; fl.-buds globose, rufo-tomentose ; sepals 3-nerved, 
longer than the petals; ovary hirsute; drupes hispid. 
Has, Between the Omtata and Port Natal, in several places, Drege! Natal, 
Gueinzius! Trans-Kei Country, Mr. Bowker! (Herb. Hook., T.C.D., Sond.). 
A climbing shrub. Leaves much larger and broader than in any other S. African 
species, 24-3} inches long, 2-2} inches broad, minutely netted and (when dry) finely 
wrinkled on the upper surface, which is hispidulous in the yo r, and smooth in 
the older leaves. Allied to G. Asiatica, and still more nearly to @. villosa, W. & A. 
but differing from both in its flowers, the character of pubescence, and rugulose reti- 
culation of leaves. 
IIL TRIUMFETTA, Linn. 
Sepals 5, linear, membranous, coloured, fornicate and dorsally mucro- 
nate or horned, deciduous. Petals 5, without glands, inserted at the 
base of a short columnar torus, which supports the stamens and ovary. 
Stamens definite, 5-30 ; filaments thread-like ; anthers roundish. Ovary 
2-5-celled; the cells divided by a false, parietal, vertical dissepiment ; 
ovules in pairs; style filiform; stigma 2-5-lobed. Capsule sub-globose, 
covered with straight or hooked prickles, 2-5-celled; cells 1-2-seeded. 
Endl. Gen. 5372. DC. Prod. 1. p. 506. 
Shrubs, suffrutices or herbs, dispersed through tropical and sub-tropical countries ; 
many of them weeds in tilled ground, and rapidly disseminated by their bur-like 
capsules which stick to passing quadrupeds, &c. The leaves, in the same species, 
vary greatly in shape ; they are entire or lobed, serrate, and many-nerved, with 
glands frequently on the serratures, at the under side. Flowers small, yellow or 
orange, solitary or clustered, on simple or branched stalks. Name in honour of 
J. B. Triumfetti, an Italian botanist of the seventeenth century, and author of several 
botanical works. 
1. T. rhomboidea (Jacq. Am. p. 147. t. 90); herbaceous, tall, dif- 
fusely much branched, stellulato-pubescent ; lower leaves 3—5-lobed, up- 
per rhomboid, acuminate, cuneate at base, the uppermost small and 
lanceolate, all minutely pubescent on both sides, unequally serrulate, 
5-nerved ; peduncles clustered, axillary, 3-flowered, very short ; sepals 
hispid, mucronulate ; stamens 10-15, glabrous ; capsules albo-tomen- 
tose, their prickles glabrous above, hooked, and ending in a white point. 
DC. Prod. 1. 507. . glandulosa, Lam.? T. velutina, Vahl.? T. riparia, 
Hochst. Pl. Kr. No. 56. T. diversifolia and T. angulata, E. Mey.! 
Haz. About Port Natal, Mr. Hewetson, Krauss, Drege, Sutherland, (Herb. 
T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) ; 
Stem 3-4 feet high, panicled, variable in pubescence and foliage. This plant is 
robably originally West Indian, but is now spread over most tropical countries. 
Probably many of the reputed local species ought to be reduced to it. 
2. T. pilosa (Roth, Nov. Sp. p. 223); herbaceous, tall, erect,densely = 2 
tomentose with stellate hairs ; lower leaves 3-lobed, upper ovate-oblong, __ 
acuminate, the very uppermost small and lanceolate, all stellately his-_ 
pidulous on the upper, and densely tomentose and hispid on the lower _ e 
side, unequally serrate, subcordate and 5-nerved at base; peduncles —_— 
several together, very short, 3-flowered ; sepals hispid i: 
