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Cat. 1077, 1, 2, 3. T. ovata, DC. Prodr. i. 507 ? T. pilosa. Wall. Cat. 

 1080. T. pilusa, ya.r. a, Thwaitcs Eiium. 31. T. vestita, Wall. Cat. 

 1078, 1, 2. T. indica, Ham. iu Wall. Cat. 237, 1078 D ; W. & A Prodr. 

 i. 74. T. oblonga, Wall, in Don. Prodr. 227. 



Malacca, Singapore : Perak, King's Collector, No. 989 ; and pro- 

 bably in all the provinces. Distrib. British India, Ceylon, Africa. 



A common and rather variable weed. The bristles of the fruit ai^e 

 usually hooked at the apex ; biit in some specimens they are quite 

 straight. The species T. tamentosa, was founded by Bojer on specimens 

 collected in Mombassa, having straight fruit-bristles and the lower leaves 

 broadly oval or oblong and often 3-lobed. Many of the Indian forms 

 have been referred to that, but I think they might very well be included 

 in T. pilosa, and in the synonymy above quoted I have adopted this 

 view. 



3. Triumfetta annua, Linn. Mant. p. 73. Annual, shrubby, 

 erect, 1 to 2 feet high ; the whole plant with sparse pale straight hairs, 

 the older parts glabrescent. Leaves thin, ovate-acuminate, coarsely 

 dentate, 3-nerved, 3 to 5 in. long, by 1'5 to 2 broad : petioles nearly 1'5 

 in. Stipules subulate, minute. Fedimoles axillary, 3-flowered. Gali/x 

 •25 in. long, nearly glabrous. Petals shorter than calyx. Stamens 10. 

 Fruit globose, pitted, glabrous, "2 in. across, bearing numerous smooth 

 glabrous thin hooked spines longer than the capsule. DC. Prod. i. 507 ; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 196 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 396. T. 

 polycarpa, Wall. Cat. 1079, partly. T. trichoclada, Link, ex DC. Prodr. 

 i. 507 ; Wall. Cat. 1082. T. indica, Lam. Diet. iii. 420 ? 



Perak : a weed. Distrib. British India, Malay Archipelago, Africa. 



7. CoKCHOROS, Linn. 



Herbs or undershrubs, more or less covered with stellate pubescence, 

 or glabrescent. Leaves simple. Peduncles axillary or opposite to the 

 leaves, 1-2-flowered. Floivers small, yellow. Sepals 4-5. Petals 4-5, 

 glaudless. Stamens free, indefinite or rarely twice the number of the 

 petals, spi'inging from a short torus. Ovary 2-6-cclled, style short, 

 stigma cup-shaped. Capsule elongated, slender or subglobosc, smooth 

 or prickly, loculicidally 2-5-valved, sometimes with transverse parti- 

 tions. Seeds numerous, albuminous, pendulous or horizontal ; embryo 

 curved. Distrib. 35 species, throughout the tropics. 



Capsules globular ... ... ... 1. O. capsidaris. 



„ cylindric, 10-ridged ... ... 2, C. olitorius. 



„ „ 6- winged ... ... 3. C. acutauyulus. 



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