Corchorus.} TILIACE. "285 
236. TRIUMFETTA NEGLECTA W. & A.; F. B. I. i. 396. 
Tirhut ; ar. 
An sooo herb. 
| 237. TRIUMFETTA ROTUNDIFOLIA Lamk; F. B. I. i. 895. 
. Western Behar. 
An undershrub. 
- 238, TRIUMFETTA RHOMBOIDEA Jacq. ; #5. Es lek a, 
ea Bartramia ¥. Ti, di,,468e, ahi irilocularis F. 5 a 
ii. 462 
Common everywhere. 
A weedy undershrub. Beng. Ban-okra; Hind. Chikti. 
239. Triumrertra annua Linn.; F. B. I. i. 896; E. D. 8. 835 
Behar. 
An annual herb. Vernac. Chikti. 
240. TrRruMFETTA PILOSA —— F, B. I. i. 894; E. D. T. 837. 
rie Chitta 
A her 
119. Corchorus Linn. 
Herbs or undershrubs : ; leaves simple; pubescence stellate. 
Flowers small, yellow, 1-2 on axillary or leaf-opposed peduncles 
Sepals 4-5, Petals 45, anaes Stamens numerous, several- 
Seriate or rarely 2-seriate and twice as many as the petals, arising 
om the torus; tre free. Ovary 2-6- locular; style short, 
stigma cupular ; ovules numerousin each loculus. Fruit a slender 
elongated, jsicly's a stout subglobose, smooth tuberculate or prickly, 
loculicidally 2-5-valved capsule, occasionally with transverse dis- 
Sepiments. Seeds numerous, pendulous or sede albumen 
Copious ; embryo curved. 
“Capsule elongated, beaked : 286 
Beak of ca ule 3-fid, lobes Set - leaves without basal bristle- like 
lobes :— 
Capsule thick, truncated, 6- Sisk the alternate Begs? produc 
into Wings: Stamens 16-00 ceca ieee ean 
Capsule rather slender, tereta, ine winged ; stamens 5-10 ens 
B 
eak of capsule entire, erect :— eetiiis 
Capsule puberulous, bois penne without transverse pa 
between the seeds ; sera 
= Ae scabrous or aculeate, beak ks leaves without basal 
lobes [p. 286] eS trilocularis. 
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