TILIACEJE. 



or less closely combined into a capsule bristling with setae 

 hooked at the point. Seeds 2, or solitary, in each cell. DC. 



293. a. T. Lappula Linn, sp.pl. 637. DC.prodr. i. 506. — 

 West Indies and Brazil. 



Leaves cordate, roundish, unequally toothed, somewhat villous, 

 5-nerved, 3-lobed; lobes acuminate. DC. 



293. b. T. semitriloba Linn. mant. 73. DC.prodr. i. 507. — 

 West Indies and Brazil. 



Leaves ovate at the base, 3-lobed, with callous serratures, velvety on 

 each side; the lower almost 5-lobed, the upper oblong, undivided. 

 Calyx pubescent ; sepals apiculate. Fruit globose, hairy, echinate, with 

 the setae hairy backwards. DC. — The mucilaginous, and at the same 

 time astringent, properties of the leaves and fruit of these shrubs, called 

 Carapixo da Calcada in Brazil, which grows everywhere, especially on 

 the road-side and in the vicinity of dwellings, render it serviceable for 

 injections in inveterate gonorrhoea. 



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