Th : TILIACE E. TRIUMFETTA. 
calyx, sometimes abortive. Stamens 5-35, springing from the top of the 
torus. Torus dilated at the apex, 5-toothed, supporting the stamens and 
ovary. Glands 5, attached round the torus, and opposite to the petals. 
Ovarium 2-4-celled, with 2 collateral pendulous ovules in each cell separated 
by a false dissepiment. Style 1, 2-5-toothed at the apex. Fruit globose, 
echinated with hooked prickles, 2-4-celled ; either separable into 2—4, some- 
times imperfectly bilocular, usually 2-seeded cocci; or indehiscent, and the. 
cells 1-seeded. Radicle superior.—Shrubs or herbaceous plants, with stellate 
pubescence. Leaves alternate, entire or lobed, serrated; lower serratures 
usually glandular. Peduncles axillary, solitary, or usually several together, 
bearing about 3 bracteas and 3 flowers at the apex: pedicels when in fruit 
reflexed. Flowers yellow. 
In this genus it may be right to caution the student, as also the mere herbarium-, 
or cultivator-botanist, to place almost no reliance on the shape of the leaves or their 
pubescence, or suppression of the parts of the flower. Linneus characterised two 
Il only: modern botanists have swelled this number almost to 50; most of 
these, we refer particularly to those of Blume, St Hilaire, Kunth, and De Candolle, 
are descriptions of so many individuals, not species. : 
270. (1) T. pilosa (Roth:) stems herbaceous, roughly hairy, or tomentose: 
upper leaves ovate, acuminated, entire ; lower ones somewhat 3-lobed ; all 
unequally serrated, hairy ; under side tomentose: peduncles several together, 
axillary and opposite to the leaves, 3-flowered : calyx apiculate: stamens 
10; filaments glabrous: fruit hairy, 4-celled, 8-seeded ; prickles glabrous at 
the apex, ciliated below with spreading hairs.— Roth. nov. sp. p. 223; DC. 
prod. 1. p. 506; Spr. syst. 2. p. 452; Wight! cat. n. 286, 287.—T. Lappula? 
Heyne!—T. vestita, Wall.! L. n. 1078.—T. Indica, Lam.?; DC.? prod. 1. 
p. 508. ; ee 
Roth seems to have overlooked entirely the deciduous calyx. We have 
examined Heyne’s plant, and consequently that intended by Roth; we have 
also before us Wallich’s n. 1078,a,¢,d, yet the only differences we can as 
are in the prickles of the fruit being hairy to above or only below the middle, 
and the more or less lobed leaves. In Dr Wight’s and Heyne’s specimens, from 
their being taken from the upper part of the branches, the leaves are entire. 
Wallich's n. 1078. d, in Hamilton's herbarium, is the same as that from Dr 
Wight, but is accompanied by a 3-lobed leaf from the lowest part of the stem. 
Dr Wallich's n. 1078.4, in Mr Arnott's herbarium, has both entire and 3- 
lobed leaves upon the branches,. so that we conceive that we are right im 
uniting them all, The fruit is about the size of a cherry. 
t *271. (2) T. oblongata (Link:) annual: stem branched, villous towards 
the summit: leaves oblong, serrated, 5-nerved, softly hairy: flowers termina 
UM prod. 1. p. 507; Wall. L. n. 1077.—T. glandulosa, Herb. 
This we do not know: we suspect, however, that Heyne's and the Penin- 
sular plant is the same with one of those we have referred to T. pilosa. AS 
far as we can ascertain by his list, Wallich appears to consider his own T. 
oblonga (Don's prod. fl. Nep. p. 227), to be the same with T. oblongata; 
while De Candolle refers it without doubt to T. trichoclada, Link., and G. 
Don in Miller's dict. still keeps it distinct. No characters have yet been 
given to distinguish any of them. 
272. (3) T. angulata (Lam.:) stems herbaceous, glabrous or pubescent: 
uppermost leaves ovate, acuminated; middle and lower ones cuspidately 
3-5-lobed ; all more or less covered with stellate hairs, serrated : peduncles 
2-3 together, axillary and opposite to the leaves, 3-flowered : calyx apicu- 
late: stamens 10; filaments glabrous: fruit pubescent, 4-5-celled, T 
seeded; prickles glabrous.— DC. prod. 1. p. 507 ; Spr. syst. 2. p. 450; Wall. 
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