Corchorus.] xxvni. TILIACE^:. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 397 



Flowers small, yellow. Sepals 4-5. Petals 4-5, glandless. Stamens free, 

 indefinite or rarely twice the number of the petals, springing from a short 

 torus. Ovary 2-6-celled, style short, stigma cup-shaped. Capsule elon- 

 gated, slender or subglobose, smooth or prickly, loculicidally 2-5-valved, 

 sometimes with transverse partitions. Seeds numerous, albuminous, pen- 

 dulous or horizontal ; embryo curved. DISTRIB. A genus of about 35 

 species, for the most part widely dispersed throughout the tropics. 



* Capsule globose, not beaked. 



l.C. capsularis, L. ; DC. Prodr. i. 505 ; annual, capsules oblate sub- 

 globose 5-celled. Roxb. FL Ind. u.68l:W.4A. Prodr. i. 73 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 1071 ; 1071, B, C ; Wight Ic.t. 311 ; Thwaites Bnum. 31 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. FL 25 ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 194. C. Marua, Ham. inWall. Cat. 

 GZll.Rumph. Amb. v. t. 78, f. 1. 



Throughout the hotter parts of India ; cultivated in most tropical countries. 



Leaves 2-4 by f-1 in., glabrescent, oblong, acuminate, coarsely toothed, base gene- 

 rally prolonged into tail-like appendages; petiole 1^ in. Stipules \-^ in. Capsule 

 wrinkled, mimcate, 5-valved, valves without transverse septa. /Sec'ds tew in each cell. 

 Yields the fibre known as Jute. 



** Capsule elongated, beak entire. 



2. C. olitorius, L. ; DC. Prodr. i. 504 ; annual, capsule elongate gla- 

 brous 3-6-valved, valves with transverse partitions between the seeds, beak 

 long erect. Roxb. FL Ind. ii. 581 : W. & A. Prodr. i. 73 ; Wall. Cat. 1072 : 

 1, 2, 3, 4, D, E, F ; Boiss. FL Orient, i. 845 ; Dak. & G.ibs. Bomb. FL 25 ; 

 Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 195 ; Thwaites Enum. 31. C. decernangularis, 

 Roxb. FL Ind. ii. 582 ; Wall. Cat. p. 237, 1072 G. 



Indigenous in many parts of India. Generally distributed by cultivation in all tropical 

 countries. 



Leaves 2-4 by 1-2 in., nearly glabrous, ovate-lanceolate, 3-5-nerved, serrate, the 

 two lower serratures prolonged into long sharp points ; petiole 1-2 in., pilose. Stipules 

 shorter than the petiole. Peduncles 1-3-flowered ; shorter than the petiole. Sepals 

 shortly pointed. Petals yellow, spathulate. long,er than the sepals. Capsule 2 in., 

 cylindric, 10-ribbed. Cultivated as a potherb, or for its fibre (Jute). The plant varies 

 in stature, hairiness, &c. Arnott (in herb.) corrects an error into which he had fallen 

 in the measurement of the pod, in the Prodromus, and which, as corrected, should read 

 "pods 10-12 times longer than broad." 



3. C. trilocularis, L. ; DC. Prodr. i. 504 ; annual, capsule elongate 

 3- angled scabrous or aculeate, beak short erect, valves with transverse 

 partitions. W. &. A. Prodr. i. 72; Roxb. FL Ind. ii. 582; Wall. Cat. 

 1070 B; Wight in Wall. Cat. 1070 C ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FL 25. 



SINDH, Stocks; NORTH-WEST PROVINCES, from Amballa to the Panjab ; Nilghirris 

 Mts. DISTRIB. Aflghanistan, Tropical Africa. 



Leaves 1-4 by 1 in. elliptic-oblong or oblong lanceolate, crenato-serrate with or 

 without basal lobes ; petiole very short, pilose. Peduncles 1-3-flowered, very short, 

 opposite the leaves. Capsule 2-3 in., straight or curved, 3-4-angled, 3-4-valved, valves 

 scabrous. Of this species Wight and Arnott, I.e., make three varieties: a, leaves ovate 

 oblong, capsules in pairs, 3- angled ; /3, leaves ovate-oblong, capsules solitary 4-angled ; 

 y, leaves oblong-lanceolate capsules in pairs 3-angled. To the latter belongs Wallich's 

 1070 B. It would appear, however, that these are mere individual variations. 



4. C. urticaefolius, W. <& A. Prodr. i. 73 ; annual, capsules terete or 

 slightly 3-angled not exceeding one inch pilose beaked, beak erect entire, 

 valves with transverse internal partitions. Thwaites Enum. 31. C. olitorius, 



