12 EL^EOCARPACE^ 



TRIUMFETTA. f.b.i. 28 ix. 



Herbs or shrubs with alternate leaves and all green 

 parts covered with stellate hairs. Flowers yellow, with 

 five sepals and petals, ten or more stamens springing from 

 a fleshy lobed and distinctly raised torus, and a 2 to 5 

 celled ovary with filiform style. Fruit a round capsule 

 covered with long spines. 



Species about 60, tropical weeds. 



Triumfetta pilosa Roth. ; F.B.I. i 394, IX 2. A herb 

 covered with bristles on bulbous bases. Leaves hairy 

 on both sides, the lower three-lobed, the upper ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate, unequally toothed, about 4 by 2j^ inches 

 with petiole % inch and subulate stipu les. Flowers 

 54 inch, yellow. Fruit including the spines, I inch 

 diameter ; four-celled ; with two seeds in each cell- 



Nilgiris : Coonoor at 6,000 feet, on roadsides. Fyson 6507. 



EL/EOCARPACE/E. 



See Vol. I p. 47, under TILIACEiE. 



EL>EOCARPUS. 



Add to this genus : 



Elaeocarpus munroii Masters ; F.B.I. i 407, XIII 32. 



A tree. Leaves long-stalked, drooping, glabrous with 

 wavy margin, broadly ovate acute, about 4 by 3 inches. 

 Flowers facing downwards, in short erect racemes above 

 the terminal tufts of leaves, white and very prominent. 

 Drupe about M by /^ inch, smaller than in the other two 

 species, t. 293. Wt. Ic. t. 952. 



Nilgiris : Coonoor, very common and conspicuous in the 

 early summer months. Fyson 3443- 



GERANIACE/E. 

 See Vol. I p. 52. 



