Corchorus.'] tiliacejs. 41 



Cultivated as Jute in Hongkong and other parts of S. China and tropical Asia, but its 

 precise native country is uncertain. 



2. TRIXJMFETTA, Linn. 



Sepals 5. Petals 5 or rarely wanting. Stamens indefinite or sometimes 

 10, free, inserted on a short disk bearing 5 glands. Ovary 2- to 5-celled, with 

 2 ovules in each cell. Style filiform. Capsule nearly globular, echinate with 

 hooked slender prickles, indehiscent, but usually separating into as many cocci 

 as cells. — Herbs or undershrubs, or rarely shrubs, with more or less of stellate 

 pubescence. Leaves serrate, undivided or palmately 3- to 7-lobed. Flowers 

 yellow, solitary or fasciculate in the axils of the leaves. 



A genus, like the last, widely dispersed over the tropics, especially the annual species, which 

 by their burr-like capsules are readily disseminated as weeds. 



Roughly pubescent. Capsules about 2 lines diameter, with prickles not 



above 1 line 1. T. angulata. 



Softly villous. Capsules above 2 lines diameter, with prickles as long or 



longer 2. T. pilosa. 



1. T. angulata, Lam. ; W. and Am. Prod. Fl. Penins. i. 75; Wight, 

 Ic. t. 320. An erect branching annual, 2 to 3 ft. high, often hard and almost 

 woody (perhaps biennial) at the base, more or less rough with a very short 

 pubescence. Lower leaves long-stalked, usually broad and 3-lobed, 2 or 3 in. 

 diameter ; the upper ones ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Flowers small, yellow, 

 in rather dense axillary clusters. Sepals nearly glabrous, about 2 lines long. 

 Petals scarcely longer. Capsules ovoid or nearly globular, about 2 lines long, 

 tomentose between the prickles, which are seldom 1 line long. 



In waste places, Champion and others. A common weed throughout southern Asia. 



2. T. pilosa, Roth ; W. and Am. Prod. Fl. Penins. i. 74. An erect 

 branching perennial, 2 to 3 ft. high, softly villous or tomentose in all its parts. 

 Leaves ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, 2 to 4 in. long ; the lower ones some- 

 times broad and angular or lobed, but less frequently so than in T. angulata. 

 Flowers larger than in that species, similarly clustered in the axils of the 

 leaves. Sepals usually tomentose, full 3 lines long. Petals scarcely longer. 

 Fruits larger than in T. angulata, hirsute all over, with the prickles from 

 2 to 3 lines long. — T. cana, Blume; Benth. in Kew Journ. Bot. iii. 263. 



On roadsides and waste places, Champion and others. Common all over India. 



3. GREWIA, Linn. 



Sepals 5. Petals 5, usually marked at the base on the inside with an 

 adnate gland or nectariferous cavity. Stamens indefinite, on a short torus, 

 with or without 5 glands. Ovary 2- to 4-celled, with 1 or 2, rarely 3 or 4, 

 ovules in each cell. Style distinct. Fruit a drupe, either entire or 2- to 

 4-lobed, with 1 to 4 kernels, each with 1 to 4 seeds, and spurious partitions 

 between the seeds. — Shrubs or trees, with more or less of stellate pubescence. 

 Leaves entire or serrate, 3- to 7 -nerved. Peduncles usually 2 together, axil- 

 lary, terminal, or leaf-opposed, each bearing an umbel of several flowers, or in 

 a few species the flowers are in terminal panicles. 



