Cor chorus^ TiliacecB. 1 8 1 



give it a new name. The locality is also there given as ' Canara,' instead 

 of Ceylon. 



The most showy of the Ceylon species, quite ornamental in mass. 



5. T. neg-lecta, W. and A. Prod. 75 (1834). 

 T. ptlosida, Thw. Enum. 401. C. P. 2901. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 396. 



An annual herb, 2-4 ft., slightly branched, stem slightly 

 scabrous with broad-based, stellate hairs ; 1. 1-2^ in., the lower 

 rotundate, acute at base, acute, somewhat 3-lobed, coarsely 

 crenate-serrate, the upper lanceolate, all sparsely hairy or 

 nearly glabrous on both sides, petiole as long as lower 1., very 

 short in upper ones, hairy, stip. small, triangular, acuminate, 

 persistent ; fl. very small, on short, slender, drooping ped., 

 clusters forming an interrupted, erect, spicate inflor., buds 

 short, ovoid ; stam. 5-10 ; fr. about ^ in., globular-ovoid, 

 densely hairy, spines stiff, hooked, strongly ciliated along the 

 upper side, upper ones erect, others spreading, cells 4. 



Dry country, rare. Trincomalie; Dambulla. Fl. Jan.; yellow. 

 Also in Peninsular India and Trop. Africa. 



5. CORCKORUS, L. 



Annual or perennial herbs ; fl. 1-3 together, small, yellow, 

 leaf-opposed ; sep. 5, distinct ; pet. 5, distinct; stam. numerous, 

 distinct ; ov. 2-5-celled, with numerous ovules ; fruit a locu- 

 licidal, 2-5-valved capsule, with numerous seeds. — Sp. 35 ; 8 

 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Capsule subglobose i. C. capsularis. 



Capsule elongated. 



Capsule 5-valved 2. C. OLITORIUS. 



Capsule 2 or 3-valved. 

 Capsule hairy 



L. glabrous 3. C. URTIC/EFOLIUS. 



L. hairy 4. C. FASCICULARIS. 



Capsule glabrous 



Capsule not winged 5. C. TRIDENS. 



Capsule strongly 3-winged . . . . 6. C. ACUTANGULUS. 



I.* C. capsularis, L. Sp. PI. 529. (1753.) 



Fl. Zeyl. n. 214. Moon Cat. 42. Thw. Enum. 31. C. P. 1105. 



Fl. B. Ind i. 397. Wight, Ic. t. 311. 



Annual, erect, glabrous ; 1. 2-4 in., narrowly ovate- 

 lanceolate, rounded at base, acuminate, acute, serrate, the 

 two lowest serratures produced into filiform deflexed tails, 

 glabrous, 3-5-veined at base, stip. filiform, as long as petiole ; 

 fl. less than \ in. diam., pedicellate ; capsule depressed, broader 



