148 XXVII. TILIACE^. 



KoNKAN : Ghotancle near Jambalpada, Kanitkar ! Deccan, Poona, Woodrow. 

 S. M. OouNTuv : Dharwar, Cooke \; Belgaum, Bitchie, 46! Kanaka: Hohenhacker, 

 40.'; Kiila naddi, Eitehic, 41")! — Distrib. Malaya, China, tropical Africa. 



3. Triumfetta rotundifolia, Lam. Encyc. v. 3 (1789) p. 421. 

 Suffruticose. Leaves f-lv "^- "i diam., orbicular, irregularly toothed, 

 glabrous or stellately hairy above, softly grey-totnentose beneath, base 

 rounded or cuneate, 3-5-nerved ; petioles ^-1^ in. long, tomentose ; 

 stipules subulate. Flowers about \ in. across, in interrupted racemes ; 

 buds oblong, clavate, 5-pointed, grey-tomentose : peduncles and pedicels 

 verv short, tomentose. Sepals linear-oblong, apiculate, stellately pubes- 

 cent outside. Petals a little shorter than the sepals, obovate, ciliate at 

 the base. Stamens 15-25. Fruit ovoid, \ in. long, pubescent beneath 

 the spines ; spines dilated at the base, pubescent, the bristle points 

 hooked, transparent. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 395; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 25; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 265.— Flowers : Aug. 



Konkan: Stocks\ Deccan: Poona, Jacquemont, 9(54!, Kanitkar]; Ahmeduagar, 

 Cooke \ GuJAUAT : Surat, Balzell cf- Gibson. 



4. CORCHORUS, Linn. 



Herbs or under shrubs, with simple and stellate hairs. Leaves serrate. 

 Flowers small, yellow ; peduncles very short, axillary or leaf-opposed, 

 1- or few-flowered, bracteate. Sepals 4-5. Petals 4-5, naked at the 

 base. Stamens numerous or rarely twice as many as the sepals, inserted 

 on a very short torus. Ovary 2-5-celled ; ovules many in each cell ; 

 style short, the apex stigmatose, hollow, crenulate. Capsule siliquiform 

 and naked, or subglobose aud echinate or muricate, loculicidally 2-5- 

 valved, rarely transversely septate between the seeds, many-seeded. 

 Seeds pendulous or horizontal, albuminous ; embryo usually incurved ; 

 cotyledons fohaeeous. — Distrib. Throughout the Tropics ; species 

 about 35. 



Capsule globose ; beak 1. C. capsularis. 



Capsule elongate; beak entire. 



Capsule glabrous, cylindric, 10-ribbed ; beak long, erect... 2. C. oliforius. 



Capsule scabrous or aculeate, 3-angled ; beak short, erect. 3. C.frUoculans, 

 Capsule short ; beak entire. 



Annual ; capsule pubescent, 3-valved 4. C. fascicularis. 



Perennial ; capsule glabrous, 4-val ved 5. C. Antichorus. 



Capsule elongate; beak trifid, spreading. 



Capsule cylindric, not winged 0. C. iridens. 



Capsule 6-angled, 3 of the angles winged 7. C. aciifangulus. 



1. Corchorus capsularis, Linn. Sj). PL (1753) p. 529. Annual, 

 growing very tall uniler cultivation ; stem and branches glabrous. 

 Leaves 3-4 by |-1:} in., lanceolate, acute or acuminate, glabrous, serrate, 

 the lower serrature on each side usually prolonged into a filiform 

 appendage, base rounded or acute; petioles reaching 1 .V in. long, shorter 

 upwards, slender, glabrous; stipules -1—1 in. long, filiform. Flowers less 

 than i in. across, in short cymes ; buds obo\ oid, shortly apiculate ; 

 j)eduucleH short; pedicels 1-2, short. Capsules j in. in diam., sub- 

 gloljo.se, not beaked, deprcssi'd, broader than long, ridged and muricnted, 

 5-valvr(l ; valves woody, without transverse septa. Seeds few in each 

 cell, wedge-shaped, smooth, brown. Fl. B. 1, v. 1, p. 397 ; Grab. Cat. 



