PLATE 318. 



TEIUMFETTA PILOSA, Roth. (Fl. Cap., Vol. I, p. 227). 

 Natural Order, TILIACBAE. 



An undershrub, 3 to 6 feet high, bearing yellow flowers, and densely stellate 

 tomentose in all parts, except the stamens and style. Leaves alternate, petiolate, 

 stipulate, ovate-oblong, acuminate, the lowest 3-lobed, remainder subcordate at 

 base, gradually smaller upwards, the uppermost very small and lanceolate, all 

 unequally serrate ; dull green above, much lighter coloured beneath, 3-5-veined at 

 base, lowest ones 6 inches long, 4 inches wide, uppermost f inch by J inch ; petiole 

 of lower leaves 2 to 3 inches long, terete ; stipules subulate, 4 to 5 lines long 

 Peduncles clustered at nodes, short, branched, the branches very short, 3-flowered ; 

 pedicels 1 to 2 lines long, bracteate at base, bracts linear, slightly longer than 

 pedicels. Sepals 5, linear, apiculate. Petals 5, oblong-spathulate, hairy at base 

 only, shorter than sepals. Stamens 10, inserted inside the disk, equalling the 

 petals ; filaments with transverse markings ; anthers oblong, 2-celled. Disk 

 cupular, pilose above, 5-glandular beneath. Ovary superior, 4-celled, cells divided 

 by a false parietal vertical dissepiment, each cell 2-ovuled, ovules collateral. 

 Capsule globose, hispid, thickly covered with hooked spines which are pilose in the 

 lower portion only, the whole capsule including the spines ^ inch or more in 

 diameter. 



Habitat: NATAL: Coast and Midlands. Tnanda, 1,850 feet alt., April, Woml, 

 No. 526 ; near Durban, 1-50 feet alt., April, Wood. 



Drawn and described from specimens gathered near Durban, April, 1903. 



This is the second species of Triumfetta figured in this work, the other being 

 T. effuxa, Plate 252, and the remarks under T. effusa will in the main apply to this 

 plant also, but its capsules are larger than those of T. efiusa, and would most likely 

 be even more troublesome to sheep farmers than those of that species. It is also 

 a native of India, Ceylon, Abyssinia, and Tropical India. 



J?ig. 1, calyx lobe ; 2, corolla lobe ; 3, flower, calyx, and corolla removed ; 4, 

 a stamen ; 5, cross-section of capsule ; all enlarged. 



