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ved, leaves ovate or lanceolate-ovate equally serrated, 

 stem much branched bifario-pilose. 



Corchoro affinis chamaedryos folio, flore flamineo, seminibus 

 atris quadrangularis duplici serie dispositis, Sloane, I. 145. t. 

 94. f. 1. Coreta foil is minoribus, Browne, 147. Corchorus 

 siliquosus, Swartz, Obs. 219. 



HAB. Common; roadsides. 



FL. After rains. 



Suffruticose, erect, 1-2 feet in height : branches spreading, 

 subterete, minutely bifario-pilose. Leaves small, ovate or lan- 

 ceolato-ovate, acuminate with the apex sharp, serrated, 3-nerved 

 at the base, glabrous : petiole compressed, with a line of pubes- 

 cence above. Stipules minute, setaceo-subulate. Peduncle 

 opposite to a leaf, solitary, very short, bearing 12 shortly 

 pedicelled flowers : pedicels longer than the peduncle, furnished 

 at the insertion with minute setaceo-subulate bracteas. Sepals 

 5, linear, subulate. Petals 5, clawed, oblong. Stamens very 

 numerous: filaments capillary: anthers roundish, yellow. Ovary 

 oblong, green, glabrous : style protruding beyond the stamens, 

 thick : stigma penicilliform. Capsule nearly 2 inches in length, 

 compressed, with a line of minute hispid hairs along the sutures 

 on each side, 4-toothed at the apex with the teeth blunt and 

 spreading: seeds numerous, small, cubical, angular, black. 



According to Linnaeus, the vernal flowers are tetrandrous, 4- 

 sepalled, and 4-petalled. 



2. Corchorus campestris. Savannah Broom-weed. 



Capsule linear acute 3-gonal puberulous, 3-celled 

 3-valved, leaves ovate serrate with the lower serratures 

 setaceo-apiculated, branches with a single line of pu- 

 bescence. 



HAB. Liguanea: roadsides and pastures. 



FL. After the May and Autumnal rains. 



Suffruticose, erect, about a foot in height: branches few, al- 

 ternate, terete, with a line of hairs on one side. Flowers yel- 

 low. Seeds numerous small. 



This species has a considerable resemblance in appearance to 

 the preceding. 



3. * Corchorus aestuans. Horn-beam-leaved Corcho- 

 rus. 



Capsules oblong 3-valved 6-sulcated, leaves subcor- 

 date ovate-acuminate serrated, lowest serratures ter- 

 minating in a long bristle. De Cand. 



Triumfetta subvillosa, foliis rotnndioribus undulatis atque 



