TILIACEJE. Ill 



3. Triumfetta rhomboidea. Rhomb-leaved Bur- 

 weed. 



Leaves rhomboidal lower ones sub-5-lobed, middle 

 ones sub-3-lobed, the upper ones oblong, all of them 

 calloso-serrated stellato-velutine on both sides and 

 somewhat wedge-shaped at the base, flowers axillary, 

 capsules echinated subpilose 6-celled. 



Jacq. Amer. 147. t. 90. Lindl. coll. t. 29. De Cand. Prod. 

 I. 507 T. rhombesefolia, Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. 863. 



HAB. Common. 



FL. Throughout the year. 



A shrub, erect, 34 feet in height: branches subdichotomous, 

 strigose, purpurascent. The upper leaves shortly petiolate, or 

 subsessile, ovate or ovato-lanceolate ; the lower ones on long pe- 

 tioles, broad, rhomboidal, obscurely 3-5-lobed ; in both, entire at 

 the base, calloso-serrated, rugose, stellato-pubescent : petiole of 

 the same length as the leaf. Peduncles axillary, 3 together, 3- 

 fid, very short, unequal : flowers very numerous, aggregate- 

 racemose, on short pedicels. Calycine sepals with a conical 

 apicula below the apex, linear, pubescent, coloured, reflected. 

 Petals 5, oblong, with a short hairy claw, patulous, rather 

 shorter than the sepals. Filaments 15, length of the sepals, 

 papillose, erect, yellow : anthers 2-celled, transversely dehis- 

 cent. Ovary hispid with herbaceous hooked hairs; style erect, 

 length of the stamens : stigma 3-cuspidate. Capsule globose, 

 6-celled : seeds solitary, angulated. 



I have uniformly found the stigma 3-cuspidate, and the 

 capsule 6-celled. According to Swartz and Jacquin the stigma 

 is simple and acute, and according to the first mentioned author 

 the capsule is usually 3-, but also sometimes 4-5 or 6-celled. 



III. MUNTINGIA. 



Calyx 5-7 partite, deciduous. Petals 5-7. Sta- 

 mens oo, free. Ovary sessile globose surrounded at 

 the base with a circle of hairs. Style 0. Stigma ca- 

 pitato-radiate persistent. Berry 5-celled, cc -seeded. 

 Seeds minute nidulant in a pulp. Embryo small. 

 De Cand. 



Named after Abraham Munting, Professor of Botany at 

 Groeningen. 



1. Muntingia calabura. Jamaica Muntingia. 



Loti arboris folio angustiore, rubi flore, fructu polysperrno 



