396 xxvin. TILIACE2E. (Maxwell T. Masters.) [Triumfctta. 



6. T. semitriloba, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. i 507 ; herbaceous or suffrutes- 

 cent, pubescent villous or glabrescent, leaves variable, fruit globose prickly, 

 prickles hooked shaggy or ciliated scarcely dilated at the base. Wall. Cat. 

 1075, partly. 



TENASSERIM ; at Tavoy, Gomez. DISTRIB. A tropical weed. 



/Stem hispidulous. Leaves cordate-ovate, sub-3-lobed, coarsely and irregularly 

 toothed, 5-7-nerved, downy, upper leaves smaller ovate-lanceolate ; petioles 2-4 in. 

 Flowers in clusters along the sides of the branches. Buds oblong. Sepals apiculate. 

 Petals ciliate at the ba^e. Stamens 10-15. Fruit the size of a lar^e pea. 1 -ii-val\vd, 

 barbed. A variable plant as to pubescence and form of leaf, and closely allied to 

 T. rhomboidea, but differs in its larger fruit with bristly or shaggy spines. 



7. T. annua, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. i. 507 ; annual, nearly glabrous, leaves 

 ovate acuminate toothed, fruit glabrous globose covered with long hooked 

 spines. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 196. T. polycarpa, JIV/. Cat. 1<>7:>, 

 />"/////. T. trichoclada, Link, ex DC. Prodr. i. 507; Wall. Cat. L082. 

 T. indica, Lam. Diet. iii. 420 ? 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Simla to Sikkim ; the KHASIA Mrs., ASSAM, CONCAN, 

 AVA, and ANDAMAN I.-I.AM>S I>I>TI:IH. Malay An-hip'-la^o, Tropical Africa. 



Stem 1-2 ft., with a lino of hairs a!on- "in- side, shitting at each joint. leaves 4-5 

 by 2-4 in. ; petiole loni:. .SY//,<//, .* subulate. /' ilnm-i, * .j, in., extra-axillary, ;j-tlo\\en d. 

 Flowers about | in. Petal* orange, nearly as loni^ as the apiculate sepals. Stitiuun* 

 10. Fruit the size of a large pea, glaucous, 4-celled ; spines glabrous. 



x T. cana, />///;/// A'//,//-, i. 116; leaves ovate-oblong or lanceolate- 

 acuminate slightly cordate unequally toothed thinly stellate-hairy above 



densely beneath, peduncles extra-axillary, sepals tomeiitose, fruit globose, 

 s] tines straight ciliated. 



'['he KHASIA M is. and Chittagong, Hook. & Tlioms.; Assam, Sincapore, G. Thomson 

 HIM. Java, Hongkong. 



>'/'//* hispid. Leaves 2 by \ in.; petiole 1 in. Flowers scarcely ,* in. Xt<nncnK 

 10-12. Fruit the size of a small pea; prickles hispid, with a slender transparent 

 straight point. 



** Fruit oblong. 



!). T. neglecta, W. <{ A. Prodr. \. 75; annual, leaves roundish, 

 stamens 5-10, fruit oblong indehiscent covered with hooked spines ciliated 

 on the upper edge. Must, in OH<\ /-'/or. '/'/"/>. An: i. -2:>~>. T. pi-ntandra. 

 Until. & Perr. Fl. Seney. \. 93, t. 19; Ham. in Wall. Cat. p. 237, 107:. F. 

 T. pilosul -, T/twaitt'x A'/i/nn. 401. 



Ndinii WKSTKKN IXPIA, Royle ; WESTERN PENINSULA ; CEYLON, at Trincomalee. 

 DISTRIB. Abyssinia, Si-in-pil. 



Slightly hairy, branched. Leaves subcordate, acuminate or slightly 3-lobed. serrate, 

 hairy on both surfaces, especially beneath, upper lanceolate. Flowers small, T V in., in 

 lateral extra-axillary clusters. Sepals linear. Petals oblong, obtuse, glabrous below. 



Wight and Arnott, in Prodr. i. 75, describe as T, ? miarophylla, a Peninsular plant 

 known only in a malformed condition, titemx herbaceous, erect, branched, glabrous ; 

 leaves oblong-lanceolate, not lobed, sharply serrate, glabrous; 2 )( 'du 1 ncles bearinir l-.'i 

 flowers, opposite? to the leaves ; stamens 5-8. It is perhaps a state of T.pilosa eaten 

 down by the cattle or goats. 



10. CORCKORUS, Linn. 



Herbs or undershrubs, more or less covered with stellate pubescence. 

 Leaves simple. Peduncles axillary or opposite to the leaves, 1-2-flowered. 



