394 xxvin. TILIACEJE. (Maxwell T. Masters.) [Columbia. 



2. C. mergnensis, Planch, ms. ; leaves lanceolate acuminate serrate 

 1-3-nerved scabrous above puberulous beneath. 



TENASSERIM, at Mergui, GrljtttJt. 



Leaves 6-8 by 2 in. ; petiole 4 i n - Fruit \\ in. diara., downy, 3-winged. Imper- 

 fect specimens only seen. 



8. ERXNOCARFUS, Nimmo. 



A tree. Leaves long-petioled, roundish-cordate, toothed, 5-7-nerved, some- 

 times 3-lobed. Flowers large, yellow, in lar.iie terminal panicles. ,sv /*//.< 5, 

 distinct. Petals 5, clawed. 8tawrnx numerous. springing from a raised 

 torus, free, or slightly united at the base. Ovary 3-celled, cells 2-ovuled ; 

 style filiform, stigma minute. Fruit indehiseent, woody, triangular, 

 3-winged, spiny, 1-celled by abortion. ,SW solitary, pendulous, albumen 

 fleshy ; cotyledons ovate, flat. The only species 



1. E. Nimmoanus, Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 21 ; Beddome Flor. Sylvat. 

 t 110; link. ,( <;;b. Ji,,i,tl>. Ft. -27. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; the Concan and Di-kkan, Mod-*, &c. 



Leaves 4 by 4 in., glabrous ; p -ti .>! 1- -1 in. ^tiimff-t c;idiirous. Bract* 6-8 in., 

 toiiieiitose, ovate-oblong. J-'lou; rbmla oblong. Flower in. diam. Fruit 2 by 

 1.1 in. 



9. TRIUIVirETTA, Linn. 



Herbs or undershrubs, generally more or less covered with stellate hairs. 

 I serrate, simple or lobrd. /'/ // n yellowish, in dense eynies. ,s'- /*//. 

 6, oblong, COUqave. P<tal*r>. ,SV//w//.s '>-:$">, springing from a Hi shy, hil.rd, 

 glandular torus. Om/y/ 2-5-celled, cells 2-ovuled; style filiform, stigma 

 r>-toothed. fV//*//A- globose or olilong. spiny or Iti'istly, indehiscent or 3-6- 

 valved. Se>'<l* \--l in each cell, jiendulous, allmminoiis ; embryo straight, 

 cotyledons liat. Di>TRiB. A genus of about40 very variable species, mostly 

 tropical weeds. 



* Fruit globose rarely ovoid. 



1. T. tomentosp, /;'./' r in Ann. ft-. Xfif. ser. ii. xx. 103 ; herbaceous or 

 Buffruticost lowny, leaves \arial)le, fruit globose covered with 



straight spines. JA/.< /// O///'. Flnr. '/'<<>/,. J/>. i. 258. T. ovata, IX.'. 

 Pm,lr. i. 5071. T. pilosa. \Y<ilt. <',,(. 1080. T. ].i'losa. var. a, Tln',,,1^ Envm. 

 31. T. vestita, Wall. Cat. 1078, 1, 2. T. indica, Horn, M Wall. Cat. 237, 

 1078 ET; W. & A. Pnxlr. i. 74 T. obloiiga, Wall, in l),,n Pr^/r. 227. 



I-', \-n:i:\ ]'.I:N(;\K; Silhct, WaVich ; SIMLA, Govan ; Assam, Griffith; CEYLON. 

 DisTRin. Mauritius, Madagascar, East Tropical Africa, West Indies? 



^t> in hispid. Li-arc* 4 by .".in., thinly stellate-hairy above, pubescent beneath, 

 ovate, acuminate, sometimes luhed, erciiulate, base rounded, 5-7-neired, upper obliquely 

 lanceolate, serrate, 3-nerved ; petiole about 2 in. titl/tulc* lanceolate. Flowers yellow, 

 in interrupted spikes. Sepals apiculate, densely stcilatr-bairy. Stamens 5-7. Fruit 

 the size ot a large pea, hispid, spines ciliate along the lower edge, glabrous along the 

 upper, with a straight transparent bristle-point. It is not quite certain that the African 

 and Indian plants are specifically identical. Perhaps only a woolly state of T. 



2. T. pilosa, Enth Nov. Sn. 223; herbaceous, bristly, bristles bulbous at 

 the base, lower leaves lobed upper ovate or ovate-lanceolate unequally 

 toothed, fruit globose tomentose covered with long hooked spines which 

 are glabrous along the upper hispid along the lower edge. W. & A. Pr<><lr. 

 i. 74. T. pilosa, var. /3, Thwaites Euum. 31 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 25. 



