HO THALAMIFLOR.S:. 



lobes acuminate, 3-5-nerved, unequally dentate with a few of 

 the teeth near the petiole glandular and cupshaped, velvety 

 above, and incano-villous with stellated hairs beneath. Petiole 

 2-2^ inches long, terete, villous. Raceme axillary and terminal, 

 compound ; divisions 3-1 proceeding from the same point, each 

 bearing shortly pedicelled dirty-yellow rather small flowers. 

 Bracteas small lanceolate, at the divisions of the raceme, and 

 at the base of the pedicels. Calycine sepals 5, lineari-ob- 

 long, apiculated below the blunt apex, externally puberulous. 

 Petals 0. Stamens 10, yellow, length of the calyx, spreading. 

 Ovary hispid with hooked hairs : style longer than the stamens : 

 stigma bifid. Capsule not separating into carpels : seed solitary. 

 The young shoots or leaves of this, as well as of the two 

 following species, infused in cold water, are rendered glary and 

 mucilaginous. A leaf applied to each cheek, for a few minutes, 

 produces a colour which might rival that of rouge. The bark 

 is strong, and has been employed in making cordage. From 

 the tenacity with which the capsules hook themselves on the 

 clothes of travellers, the French Colonists give the plant the 

 name of " Les Cousins." 



2. Triumfetta semitriloba. Mallow-leaved Bur-weed. 



Leaves ovate 3-lobed calloso-serrated velvety on 

 both sides, calycine sepals pubescent subapiculated, 

 capsules globose echinated with bristles hispid with 

 reverted hairs. 



Triumfetta villosa, floribus ternatis, Browne, 233. T. semi- 

 triloba, Jacq. Amer. 147. 



HAB. Common, with the last. 



FL. Throughout the year. 



Suffruticose, erect, sometimes 6-7 feet in height, strigoso- vil- 

 lous with stellated hairs. Leaves ovate, 3-lobed with the mid- 

 dle lobe the longest, acute, 3-nerved, serrated, stellato-hirsute 

 above, stellato-velutine beneath : petiole about 2 inches long. 

 Raceme axillary terminal, compound : divisions in threes, each 

 of 3 shortly pedicelled flowers, with 3-5 lanceolate bracteas. 

 Calycine sepals 5, oblong, apiculated, puberulous, striated, ful- 

 vous. Petals 5, oblong, yellow, erect. Filaments 16, longer 

 than the petals, minutely papillose : anthers heart-shaped, yel- 

 low, with a crimson spot in the centre. Carpels, when ripe, 

 separable. 



The lower leaves are sometimes 5-lobed, and the upper ones 

 undivided. 



