228 _ TILIACEZ (Harv.) [Corchorus. 
glabrous ; capsules hispid, their prickles hairy below, glabrous above, 
hooked, and ending in a white point. DC. Prod. t. p. 506. W. & Arn. 
Prod. p. 74. T. tomentosa, E. Mey. ! 
Has. South Africa, Drege) Natal, Dr. Sutherland. (Herb. Hook., T.C.D., 
Sond.): 
Stems 4-6 feet high, strong and half woody at base. Lower leaves 3-5 inches 
long, 1-3 inches wide, obscurely 3-lobed or angled ; upper much smaller, ovate . 
or lanceolate ; the serratures alternately large and small. Our specimens quite 
agree with the East Indian plant. Bojer’s 7. tomentosa, from the Mauritius, is very 
similar ; but in that the sets of the capsule are straight. Is the character constant ! 
3. T. effusa (E. Mey. in Hb. Drege); herbaceous, tall, diffusely 
branched, rough with rigid, stellate hairs ; lower leaves .. . . 4 upper 
tricuspidate, rounded at base, acuminate, all stellately pubescent and 
rough on both sides, unequally toothed and jagged, 5-nerved; pedun- 
cles clustered, bracteate above the middle, 1-3-flowered, longer than 
the flower ; pedicels half as long as the tomentose sepals ; stamens 10, 
glabrous ; capsules hispid, their prickles ciliate at base, glabrous above, 
hook-pointed. 
Has. Natal country, Drege! T. Williamson! (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.). 
Closely allied to 7’. Vahlii, and perhaps not distinct. The inflorescence is much 
more lax, and the peduncles longer than in the allied species. The leaves resemble 
those of 7, angulata, Lam. 
4 T. trichocarpa (Sond. ! in Linn. 23. p. 19); erect, shrubby, hispid 
with stellate hairs ; leaves subsessile, elliptic-oblong, sub-acute, toothed, 
stellato-pubescent on both sides, 3-nerved at base, reticulately veined 
below ; stipules subulate, deciduous; peduncles 3-flowered ; sepals 
fornicate, hispid ; petals spathulate ; stamens 15-16, glabrous ; ovary 
2-celled ; capsules densely setose, the prickles very long, straight, patently 
hairy (not hook-pornted.) Harv. Thes. Cap. t. 52. 
Has. Macallisberg and near Vaal River, Burke § Zeyher! Zooloo Country, 
Miss Owen! (Herb. Hook., Sond., T.C.D.). 
A rigid, erect shrub, hairy in all parts with coarse, but not thickly set stellate 
hairs ; branches very erect. Leaves 1 inch long, 4 inch wide, mostly oblong-oval, 
not lobed, but unequally toothed. Petiole one line long. Peduncles shorter than 
the leaves, slender, hairy. Sepals linear, hooded at point and long-horned behind. 
Style minutely bifid. Capsule sub-globose, | inch in diameter, bristling like a por- 
cupine, with straight, very hairy, and long sete. 
IV. CORCHORUS, Linn. 
: Sepals 4~5, ovate or lanceolate, unequal, deciduous. Petals 4-5, obo- 
ie, clawed, hypogynous. Stamens numerous, mostly indefinite. Ovary 
r shortly stipitate, 2-5-celled ; ovules very numerous ; style 
gmas 2-5. Capsule podlike or roundish, 2-5 celled, 2-5- 
culicidal, many-seeded. Hndl. Gen. 5371. DC. Prod. t. p. 504. 
erbaceous, suffruticose or shrubb: common throughout the tropics. 
Leaves alternate, serrate ; the testh eorsetimes droduesd into long, setacoous pointe. 
Stipules lateral. Flowers yellow, o short, simple or branched peduncles, axillary 
8. CL titorius and C’. capsuluris are used in the East as pot- 
cultivated for their fibrous bark, from which the 
‘it. The generic name is the Greek xopxopos, 
