or less closely combined into a capsule bristling with setae 

 hooked at the point. Seeds 2, or solitary, in each cell. DC. 



293. a. T. Lappula Linn, sp.pl. 637. DC.prodr. i. 506. 

 West Indies and Brazil. 



Leaves cordate, roundish, unequally toothed, somewhat villous, 

 5-nerved, 3-lobed ; lobes acuminate. DC. 



293. b. T. semitriloba Linn. mant. 73. DC.prodr. i. 507. 

 West Indies and Brazil. 



Leaves ovate at the base, 3-lobed, with callous serratures, velvety on 

 each side; the lower almost 5-lobed, the upper oblong, undivided. 

 Calyx pubescent ; sepals apiculate. Fruit globose, hairy, echinate, with 

 the setae hairy backwards. DC. The mucilaginous, and at the same 

 time astringent, properties of the leaves and fruit of these shrubs, called 

 Carapixo da Calcada in Brazil, which grows everywhere, especially on 

 the road-side and in the vicinity of dwellings, render it serviceable for 

 injections in inveterate gonorrhoea. 



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