178 Tiliacece. YTriumfetta. 



10. G-. populifolia, Vahl, Syinb. i. 33. (1790). XLatu-peratti, 

 AchcbU, 7: [I'LATE XVIII.] 

 Trim, in Journ. Bot. 1885, 143. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 385. (Not given for Ceylon.) 



A bush, with numerous divaricate branches, bark white, 

 smooth, young parts stellate-puberulous ; 1. small, ^-i^ in., 

 often fasciculate, orbicular or ovate, rounded at base, obtuse, 

 irregularly crcnate-scrrate, often somewhat 3-lobcd, 3-nerved 

 at base, glabrous on both sides, petiole half as long, slender, 

 nearly glabrous, stip. small, linear, soon falling ; fl. about i in. 

 diam., solitary, extra-axillary or leaf-opposed, ped. about 

 I in., thickened above ; sep. oblong-linear, obtuse, pubescent 

 on both sides, 3-nerved ; pet. linear, acute, I as long as sep., 

 bifid at top, basal scale broad, rotund, ciliate ; gynophore 

 short, glabrous ; ov. 4-lobed, glabrous, style longer than stam., 

 stigma with 2 reflexed lobes ; fr. \ in. broad, of 2 separable 

 halves, smooth, shining, yellowish-brown, each half didymous, 

 with 2 rounded lobes, pericarp thin, brittle, pulp scanty, 

 fibrous, stones 4, bony, compressed, muriculate, 2-celled, 

 2-seeded. 



Desert tracts in the diy country, rather common. Puttalam (Nevill) ; 

 abundant about Ilambantota, Kirinda, «&€. ; Matalan, N. Prov. (Nevill); 

 Mannar. Fl. Dec, July; white. 



Also in Southern India, the Punjab, Sind, Affghanistan, Arabia, 

 Tropical Africa, and Mauritius. 



The pulp of the fruit is pleasantly acid. 



Very unlike all the other Ceylon species. 



4. TRIUMFETTA,* Z. 



Annual or perennial herbs ; fl. small, yellow, in clusters 

 opp. the 1. and in spicate terminal panicles ; sep. 5 ; pet. 5, 

 distinct; stam. 5-25, distinct; ov. 2-5-celled, with 2 ovules in 

 each cell ; fruit small, indehiscent, spiny, 2-5-celled, with i or 

 2 seeds in each cell. — Sp. 40 ; 9 in FL B. Ind. 



Spines of fruit not hooked I. T. TOMENTOS.A. 



Spines of fruit hooked 



L. ovate-lanceolate . ' . . . . 2. T. pilos.\. 

 Lower 1. more or less 3-lobed 



Fruit globose, spines glabrous . . . . 3. T. rh0MB0IDE.\. 

 Fruit somewhat ovoid, spines strongly hairy. 



L. densely stellate-pubescent beneath . . 4. T. GLABRA. 

 L. sparsely hairy beneath . . . . 5. T. NEGLECTA. 



* J. B. Triumfetti was an Italian botanist. Died 1707. 



