TILIACEAE. 



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Petals present, cuneate-spatulate. 

 Petals none. 



1. Triumfetta semitriloba Jacq. 

 Burr Bush. (Fig. 254.) Annual, stel- 

 late-tomentulose. Stems 2i°-4° tall, 

 branched; leaves ovate, rhombic or sub- 

 orbicular in outline, l'-4' long, serrate, 

 angulate or often 3-lobed, rounded or 

 truncate at the base; petioles as long as 

 the blades or shorter; panicles narrow, 

 elongated; sepals lanceolate, about 3" 

 long, appendaged below the apex; petals 

 cuneate-spatulate, slightly pubescent at 

 the base; stamens often 15; fruit about 

 2A" in diameter, '2-celled, copiously 

 prickly, the prickles about as long as the 

 diameter of the body, hooked at the 

 apex. [T. althaeoides Lam.] 



Hillsides and waste grounds. Native. 

 Florida, West Indies, continental tropical 

 America. Flowers in summer and autumn. 

 Hemsley remarks that it is called " Box 

 Bush." 



1. T. semitriloba. 



2. T. Lappula. 





2. Triumfetta Lappula L. Apetalous 

 Burr Bush. (Fig. 255.) Similar to the 

 preceding species, stellate-tomentulose, 2°- 

 5° high. Leaves broadly ovate to subor- 

 bicular, serrate, sometimes lobed; flowers 

 in narrow panicles; petals none; stamens 

 described as 10; fruit subglobose, the 

 prickles about equalling its diameter. 



Bermuda is the type locality of this species, 

 cited by Linnaeus from Plukenet's " Alma- 

 gestum Botanicum " of IGOl, and Ilemsley 

 states that this specimen is preserved in the 

 Sloane Herbarium. It is listed by Lefroy, and, 

 according to Ilemsley, was collected in Ber- 

 muda by Moseley and by Lefroy. but It has 

 not been found by subsequent collectors. 



Berrya Ammonilla Roxb., Trincomali Wood, East In<lian, a large tree, 

 with durable wood, broadly ovate entire cordate long-petioled leaves 4-8' 

 long, small panicled flowers with 5 spatulate petals, the fruit 3-4-valved, each 

 valve with 2 thin wings nearly 1' long, is recorded by Jones as grown in 

 Bermuda in 1873. 



