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Plants of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Stipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Toothed. 

 Petals ununited. 



Triumfetta annua, 



Clukii. 

 T1LIACE.B. 

 F. B. I. i. 39G. 

 The Plains to 

 5,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Koti. 



Corchorus capsularis, 

 Jute, 



Harrana. 



TlLIACE-^. 



F. B. I. i. 397. 

 The Plains to 

 4,000 ft. 

 (Cultivated ui' 

 escaped). 

 Thanesar 

 (Edge worth). 



Corchorus olitorius. 

 Jute, or Jew's 

 mallow, 



Banplial, koshta. 



TiLIACE-E. 



F.B.Li. 397. 

 The Plains to 

 4,000 ft. 



Corchorus 

 trilocularis, 



Ka unti. 



TiLIACE.E. 



F. B. I. i. 397. 



The Plains. 



Phalia, 



Gujrat District 



(Douic). 



Baluchistan 



(Lace). 



medium size, annual, smooth except for a line of hairs 

 on one side, which alters at every joint, leaves 4-5 by 2-3 

 in., ovate, long-pointed, toothed, smooth except for a few 

 scattered hairs, long-stalked, stipules awl-shaped, flowers 

 I in., orange, on 3-flowered stalks, | in. long, opposite to the 

 leaves, sepals shortly and sharph^ pointed, petals nearly 

 equal to the sepals, stamens 10, fruit | in., bluish-green 

 waxy gloss, 4-celled, spines long, smooth, hooked ; other- 

 wise like Triumfetta rhomboidea. 



medium size to large, annual, smooth , leaves 2-4 in., 

 ovate-lanceolate, long-pointed, toothed, rounded at the 

 base, the two teeth furthest back prolonged into tails, 

 stalk 1| in., stipules thread-like, as long as the stalk ; 

 flowers small, | in. diam. or less, yellow, one or two together 

 on axillav}^ or leaf-opposed stalks, sepals 4-5, petals 4-5, 

 without glands, stamens few or twice the number of petals, 

 ununited, style short, stigma cup-shaped ; capsule ^ in. 

 diam., nearh* round, depressed at the apex, ridged, rough 

 with hard tubercles, 5-celled, valves woody, without cross 

 partitions, seeds few in each cell, brown, smooth, wedge- 

 shaped. The fibre of the inner bark forms the jute of 

 commerce. 



very like the last species, but sepals short-pointed, 

 petals longer than the sepals, capsule 2 in., cylindric, 

 beaked, 10-ribbed, 3-G-valved, valves with cross parti- 

 tions between the seeds, beak long, erect, undivided. This 

 plant is cultivated as a pot herb and also for its fibre. 



very like the last species, but sometimes perennial 

 and indigenous, capsule 2-3-in., 3-4-valved, straight or 

 curved, valves 3-4-angled, with partitions, rough, beak 

 short, erect and undivided. 



