Triuwfetta.'] xxvii. tiliace.! (masters). 259 



sepals, ciliated below. Stamens 12. Fruit j^lobosc, the size of a pea, 4- 

 valved; valves densely covered with strai<;ht, setose, brown prickles, ter- 

 minated by a white, bent, scarcely hooked point. 



Upper Guinea. Nupe, Niger, Barter ! 

 Lower Guinea. Angola, Br. Weluitsch ! 



12. T, Heudelotii, Planch, mss. in Herb. Kew. Herbaceous or suf- 

 frutescent. Stem rough, with black dots, villose. Leaves on short stalks, 

 oblong, acuminate, irregularly toothed, paimately 3-nerved, obscurely 3-lobed 

 at the apex, downy beneath. Pedicels longer than the petioles. Flowers 

 . . . Fruit globose, the size of a large pea, 4-valved, covered wilrli black, 

 conical, sparingly ciliated prickles, which are tipped with a slender, straight, 

 white spine or sometimes slightly hooked. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot ! 



13. T. setulosa. Mast. Annual or suffrutescent, 1-2 ft. high, erect, 

 covered with rough stellitbrm hairs, branched from the base. Branches elon- 

 gate ; lower ones decumbent. Leafstalks :^-l in. long. Leaves 2-3 in. 

 long, 1 in. wide, lanceolate, dentate, paimately 3-nerved, rough, with long 

 simple hairs above, below densely clothed with white down, interspersed with 

 short stelliform bristles. Stipules setaceous. Flowers in small extra-axil- 

 lary clusters, subsessile along the sides of the leafy branches. Flower-buds 

 oblong. FloW'Crs about \ in. in length. Sepals linear, apiculate. Petals 

 oblong, tapering at the base. Stamens 12. Disk lobed, ciliated at the 

 margins. Fruit globose, the size of a large pea, 4-valved ; valves glabrous 

 or nearly so, studded with long spreading subulate prickles, each terminated 

 by a tuft of minute white hairs. 



liower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 



14. T. Kirkii, Mast. An annual plant, with slender, filiform, trail- 

 ing (?), dichotomously branched stems, covered with thin star-shaped hairs. 

 Leafstalks as long as the leaves, which are cordate, roundish, \-\\ in. long, 

 i-1 in. wide, deeply divided into 3-5 lobes; the latter are oblong, obtuse, 

 crenate, hairy on both surfaces. Flower-stalks terminal, extra-axillary, as 

 long as or longer than the leafstalks, dividing above into 2 or 3 short pe- 

 dicels. Fruit globular, of the size of a small cherry, densely clothed with long, 

 slender, straight-pointed, ciliate setae. Fruit 6-celled, 6-seeded. 



Mozamb. Distr. Rovuma river, Br. Kirk! 



From the dried specimens this would appear to be a trailing plant, whose annual branches 

 spring probably from a woody stock. It is distinguished by its leaves and its fruits. 



1 5. T. trichocarpa, Hochst. in Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 84. Annual, with a 

 simple or slightly-branched stem, traversed by a line of hairs along one side. 

 Leaves thin, 2-4 in. long, 1-3 in. wide, oval or elliptic, coarsely serrate, 3-5- 

 nerved, slightly hairy. Leafstalks as long as the blades. Pedicels 3-flowered 

 extra-axillary or terminal. Flowers minute. Sepals oblong, twice the length 

 of the spatiiulate petals. Stamens 10-12. Fruit globose, the size of a 

 small cherry, as long as or longer than the pedicels, covered with numerous, 

 soft, ciliate, hooked setae. 



