Trinmfetta.] xxvi n. TILIACEJE. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 395 



T. tomentosa, Wall. Cat. 1078 C. T. glandulosa, Heyne herb. ; Wall. Cat. 

 1077, 5. T. polycarpa, Wall. Cat. 1079. T. oblongata, Link. Enum. PI. 

 Hort. Ber. ii. 5 ; Wall. Cat. 1077, 1, 2, 3. 



Throughout Tropical India, from NIPAL and KUMAON to AVA and MALACCA, TRA- 

 VANCOR, and CEYLON. DJSTRIB. Abyssinia, West Tropical Africa. 



Upper leaves 3-4 by 2| in., lower 3-lobed, stellate-hairy on both sides; petiole 

 | in., villous. Stipules subulate-aristate, shorter than the petiole. Peduncles shorter 

 than the petiole. Flowers f in., yellow. Sepals linear, apiculate. Petals oblong- 

 spathulate, scarcely shorter than the sepals, ciliate at the base. Stamens about 10. 

 Fruit (including the spines) about the size of a cherry, 4-celled, 8-seeded. 



3. T. g-labra, Herb. Miss.; W. & A. Prodr. i. 75 ; suffraticose stem 

 pubescent, leaves subcordate 3-lobed 7-nerved, fruit globose covered with 

 hooked spines ciliated for nearly their whole length. 



WESTERN PENINSULA; Canara, at Balticalo, Bottler. 



Leaves 24 by 2 in., glabrous, lobes coarsely and irregularly toothed, "slightly cuspidate. 



late. Peta 



terminal leafless clusters. Sepals apiculate. Petals oblong, glabrous at 

 the base. Stimi'm 30-.5 (\V. & A.), filaments glabrous. Fruit slightly hairy. 

 Differs fiviu T. suniitr-Uoba in the number of stamens and in the larger fruit. 



4. Ti rbomboidea, Jacq. ; DC. Prodr. i. 507 ; glabrous or pubescent, 

 lenves polymorphous, fruit small globose or ovoid pubescent and with 

 hooked spines. T. angulata, Lam. Diet. iii. 41 ; Wight Ic. t. 320 ; W. & A. 

 Prodr. i 74; Thwaites Enum. 31; Dak. & Gibs. Bomb. FL 25; Wall. 

 Cat. 1075, 2, C ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. pt. i. 197. T. anguiata, . acuminata, 

 Wall. Cat. 1075 /3. T. Bartramia, Roxb. FL Ind. ii. 463 ; Wall. Cat. 1075, 

 D, E. T. trilocularis, Roxb. FL Ind. ii. 462; Wall. Cat. 1083. T. vestita, 

 Wall. Cat. I078 t inpart. 



Throughout tropical and subtropical INDIA and CEYLON, ascending to 4000 ft. in the 

 Himalaya. DISTRIB. Malay Islands, China, Tropical Africa. 



Herbaceous or suffruticose. Leaves ovate rhomboid or cordate, 3-7-nerved, apex 

 acute or somewhat 3-lobed, serrate, variable in amount and quality of pubescence. 

 Flowers \ in., yellow, in dense cymes. Pedicels short. Flower-buds oblong, club- 

 shaped, apiculate. /Sepals oblong, apiculate. Petals oblong, ciliate at the base. Stamens 

 815. Capsule the size of a small pea, albido-tonientose between the spines, spines 

 hooked, glabrous or ciliated. Some of the forms of this protean species are superficially 

 so different that they may be mistaken for distinct species. 4) u examination, however, 

 of large suites of specimens from various localities, it will be found that the forms 

 merge one into the other. The same variability occurs in Tropical Africa and else- 

 where see Flora of Trop. Afr. i. 257. 



5. T. rotundifolia, Lam. Diet. iii. 421 ; leaves suborbiculate gla- 

 brescent above tomeutose beneath, flowers in interrupted racemes, fruit 

 globose pubescent, spines conical subulate hooked pubescent. W. < A. 

 Prodr. I 75; Roth Nov. Sp. 222 ; Wall. Cat. p. 237, 1076 B, C, D, E; Miq. FL 

 Ind. Bat. i pt. 2, 196 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FL 25. T. suborbiculata, DC. 

 Prodr. i. 506. T. orbiculata, Kamig in Roxb. Hort. Beng. 36. T. bilocularis, 

 Wall. Cat. 1081. 



WESTERN PENINSULA and CENTRAL INDIA, from Bandelkhand, Edgeworth, to Maisor, 

 PEGU, WalKeh. 



Suffruticose, roughish. Leaves 1 in., coriaceous, unequally serrate, lower serratures 

 thickened, rugose and glabrescent above, cream-coloured and pubescent beneath ; 

 petiole 4 i n - Sepals apiculate, albido-tomentose. Petals oblong, ciliate at the base. 

 Stamens 15-25. Fruit globose, the size of a pea, pubescent, spines dilated at the 

 base. Possibly only a form of T. rhomboidta, but having larger fruits and the spines 

 wider at the base. 



