l8o TiliaceCB. \Triumfetta. 



the lower more or less deeply 3-fid, the upper ovate-lanceolate^ 

 all coarsely and irregularly serrate, simply hairy on both 

 sides, often tomentose and white beneath, petiole of lower 1. 

 long, of upper 1. very short ; fl. small, % in. diam., on short 

 ped., clusters crowded into a spicatc inflorescence at end of 

 branches, buds oblong, slightly stellate - pubescent ; pet. 

 equalling sep. ; stam. 8-15; fr. very small, globose, ^ in.,, 

 finely tomentose, spines less than -Jr in., glabrous, hooked,, 

 cells 3 or 4. 



Waste ground in low country ; a very common weed. Fl. Nov.-Feb ; 

 yellow. 



Throughout Tropical Asia and Africa. 



The name T. Bartramia has priority (1762), but Linnaeus may have 

 included in it more than T. rhoinhotdea, Jacq. as now understood. 



4. T. g-labra, Rottl. in Spretig. Sysf. ii. 450 (1825). [Plate XTX.] 

 W. and A. Prod. 75. T. conspzcua, Trim, in Journ. Bot. xxiii. 206. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 395. 



Semi-shrubby, stems 3-5 ft., much branched, rough with 

 stellate hairs ; 1. 2-2i in., sub-orbicular, rather broader than 

 long, cordate at base, acute, irregularly crenate-dentate, some- 

 what 3-lobed, glabrous above, paler and finely but densely 

 stellate-pubescent beneath ; fl. rather large for genus, nearly 

 f in., pedicellate, crowded in small, stalked, paniculate clusters 

 rather distantly arranged on the elongated, erect, quite leafless 

 branches of the large terminal inflor., buds ovoid, crowned by 

 a star formed of the appendages of the sep. ; sep. linear, 

 densely stellate-pubescent, with a rather long, curved, spread- 

 ing, apical appendage ; pet. as long as sep., broadly spathu- 

 late, ciliate at base ; stam. 20 ; fr. small, 1 in. diam., globular- 

 ovoid, densely covered with yellowish pubescence of short 

 simple hairs and set with stiff red spines | in. long, hooked 

 at the end and shortly hairy in the lower part, the upper ones 

 erect, the others spreading, 2-4-celled, 2-4-seeded ; seed 

 smooth, yellowish-grey. 



Dry country, very rare. Batticaloa (Rottler) ; Near Tissamaharama 

 Tank, Hambantota, in great abundance, 1882. Mr. Nevill thinks 

 he has seen it about Mandagalla in Eastern Prov. Fl. Dec.-Feb. ; 

 I)right yellow. 



Endemic. 



Rottler collected this in Feb. 1796, and his specimens are now in Herb. 

 Kew. They scarcely warrant his name glabra,hvL\. are less densely stellate- 

 hairy than my Hambantota ones. 



The description in V\. B. Ind. so little agrees with the plant as to 

 have caused me to miss the identity of my species with Rottler^s, and to 



