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ved, leaves ovate or lanceolato-ovate equally serrated, 

 stem much branched bifario-pilose. 



Corchoro affiiiis chamsedryos folio, flore flamineo, seminibus 

 atris quadrangiilaris diiplici serie dispositis, Sloane, I. 145. t. 

 94. f. 1. — Corcta foliis niinoribus, Browne, 147. — Corchorus 

 siliquosus, Sivartz, Obs. 219. 



HAB. Common; roadsides. 



FL. After rains. 



Snffruticose, erect, 1-2 feet in height: branches spreading, 

 subterete, minutely bifario-pilose. Leaves small, ovate or lan- 

 ceolato-ovate, acuminate with the apex sharp, serrated, 3-nerved 

 at the base, glabrous : petiole compressed, with a line of pubes- 

 cence above. Stipules minute, setaceo-subulate. Peduncle 

 opposite to a leaf, solitary, very short, bearing 1-2 shortly 

 pedicelled flowers : pedicels longer than the peduncle, furnished 

 at the insertion with minute setaceo-subulate bracteas. Sepals 

 5, linear, subulate. Petals 5, clawed, oblong. Stamens very 

 numerous: filaments capillary : anthers roundish, yellow. Ovary 

 oblong, green, glabrous : style protruding beyond the stamens, 

 thick: stigma penicilliform. Capsule nearly 2 inches in length, 

 compressed, with aline of minute hispid hairs along the sutures 

 on each side, 4-toothed at the apex with the teeth blunt and 

 spreading : seeds numerous, small, cubical, angular, black. 



According to Linnaeus, the vernal flowers are tetrandrous, 4- 

 sepalled, and 4-petalIed. 



2. Corchorus campestris. Savannah Broom-weed. 



Capsule linear acute 3-gonal puberulous, 3-celled 

 3-valvcd, leaves ovate serrate with the lower serratures 

 setaceo-apiculated, branches with a single line of pu- 

 bescence. 



HAB. Liguanea : roadsides and pastures. 



FL. After the May and Autumnal rains. 



Sufi'ruticose, erect, about a foot in height: branches few, al- 

 ternate, terete, with a line of hairs on one side. Flowers yel- 

 low. Seeds numerous small. 



This species has a considerable resemblance in appearance to 

 the preceding. 



3. * Corchorus ^stuans. Horn-beam-leaved Corcho- 



rus. 



Capsules oblong 3-valved 6-sulcated, leaves subcor- 

 date ovato-acuminate serrated, lowest serratures ter- 

 minating in a long bristle. — DeCand. 



Triumfetta subvillosa, foliis rotundioribus undulatis atque 



