234 
Plants of the Punjab. 
HERBS, 
Triumfetta annua, 
Chikti. 
TILIACEA. 
Poa. 1.990. 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Koti. 
Corchorus capsularis, 
Jute, 
Harrana. 
TILIACE. 
HSB. 1, 307. 
The Plains to 
4,000 ft. 
(Cultivated or 
escaped). 
Thanesar 
(Edgeworth). 
Corchorus olitorius, 
Jute, or Jew’s 
mallow, 
Banphal, koshta. 
TILIACES. 
Peis 1: OO l« 
The Plains to 
4,000 ft. 
Corchorus 
trilocularis, 
Kauntt. 
TILIACE A. 
Hebb i: ool. 
The Plains. 
Phalia, 
Gujrat District 
(Douie). 
Baluchistan 
(Lace). 
ERECT, 
with ALTERNATE STIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Lear Marains 'oorTHeEn. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
medium size, annual, smooth except for a line of hairs 
on one side, which alters at every joint, leaves 4-5 by 2-3 
in., ovate, long-pointed, toothed, smooth except for a few 
scattered hairs, long-stalked, stipules awl-shaped, flowers 
1 in., orange, on 8-flowered stalks, 3 in. long, opposite to the 
leaves, sepals shortly and sharply pointed, petals nearly 
equal to the sepals, stamens 10, fruit + in., bluish-green 
waxy gloss, 4-celled, spines long, smooth, hooked ; other- 
wise like Triumfetta rhomboidea. 
medium size to large, annual, smooth , leaves 2-4 in., 
ovate-lanceolate, long-pointed, toothed, rounded at the 
base, the two teeth furthest back prolonged into tails, 
stalk 14 in., stipules thread-like, as long as the stalk ; 
flowers small, $ in. diam. or less, yellow, one or two together 
on axillary or leaf-opposed stalks, sepals 4-5, petals 4-5, 
without glands, stamens few or twice the number of petals, 
ununited, style short, stigma cup-shaped; capsule $ in. 
diam., nearly round, depressed at the apex, ridged, rough 
with hard tubercles, 5-celled, valves woody, without cross 
partitions, seeds few in each cell, brown, smooth, wedge- 
shaped. ‘The fibre of the inner bark forms the jute of 
commerce. 
very like the last species, but sepals short-pointed, 
petals longer than the sepals, capsule 2 in., cylindric, 
beaked, 10-ribbed, 8-6-valved, valves with cross parti- 
tions between the seeds, beak long, erect, undivided. This 
plant is cultivated as a pot herb and also for its fibre. 
very like the last species, but sometimes perennial 
and indigenous, capsule 2-3-1n., 3-4-valved, straight or 
curved, valves 8-4-angled, with partitions, rough, beak 
short, erect and undivided. 
