TriumMta.] XXIV. TILIACE.E. 157 



about as long as the bracts. Buds narrow-oblong, crowned by the spreading sepal 

 appendages. Sepals linear, 4 lines long, without the thread-like appendages. 

 Petals spathulate, shorter than the sepals. Stamens 15 to 20, filaments glabrous. 

 Style sulcate, glabrous. Ovary setose, 4-celled, 2 ovules in each cell. Fruit about 

 4 lines diameter, dark-coloured, 4-c8lled, 2 seeds in each cell ; outside covered 

 with slightly hairy hooked setae about 4 lines long, the sharp hook at the ends 

 often of lighter colour, glabrous between the set® except for a few stellate hairs. 

 Seeds oval, rough. 



Hab.: Herberton and TuUy River, J. F. Bailey. This plant is likely to become a pest, and 

 should be included in " Noxious weeds to be destroyed." The fruit very dark or blackish on the 

 specimens received. 



4. CORCHORUS, Linn. 



(From its supposed medicinal properties.) 



Sepals 5, rarely 4. Petals as many, without any cavity at the base. Stamens 

 indefinite, rarely few, inserted on a torus scarcely raised, but occasionally 

 expanded in a disk round their base ; anther-cells opening longitudinally. Ovary 

 2 to 5-eelled, with several ovules in each cell ; style short, simple. Capsule either 

 long without prickles, or short or globular and more or less warted, muricate or 

 echinate, opening loculicidally in 2 to 5 valves, with several seeds in each cell, 

 rarely separated by transverse partitions. Seeds pendulous or horizontal, 

 albuminous ; embryo usually curved, with leafy cotyledons. — Herbs, undershrubs, 

 or shrubs, with simple or stellate hairs. Leaves serrate. Peduncles very short, 

 lateral or leaf-opposed, bearing 1 or several flowers. Bracts small. Flowers 

 usually small, yellow. 



A considerable genus, of which a. few species appear to be limited to tropical America or to 

 Australia, the remainder generally dispersed over various tropical regions in the Old as well as 

 the New World. The fruit in this genus' is often indispensable lor determining the species. — 

 Benth. 



Annuals (or biennials'), glabrous or loosely pubescent. 

 Capsule globular or ovoid, very obtuse. Capsule slightly warted, 2 or 



3 celled 1. C. hygrophilus. 



Capsule (J to fin. long) rather thick, angular or winged. 

 Capsule acute or acuminate, angular but not winged. Stamens 



numerous 2. (,'. Cunninghamii. 



Capsule 3-winged, truncate at the top, with 3 diverging points. 



Stamens under 20. Flowers very small 3. C. acutangulus. 



Capsule linear, not winged. 



Capsule under Jin., 2 or 3-celled. Leaves without setse. Flowers very 

 small. Stamens few. Pubescent plants. Capsule 2-celled, refiexed, 



very hirsute, rather acute .... 4. C. pumiliq. 



Undershrubs w shrubs more or less tomentose or hirsute. 

 Fruiting pedicels recurved. Capsule linear, curved or twisted, more or 

 less torulose, 2 or 3-oelled. 

 Low diffuse shrubs or undershrubs. Capsule few-seeded, 



Sepals under 2 lines. Stamens about 10. Capsule 3 or 4 lines 



long, very hispid, slightly curved .... 4. C. pumilio. 



Sepals 3 to 4 lines. Stamens numerous. Capsule tomentose, 



slender but not twisted . . o. C tomentellus. 



Erect or decumbent shrubs. 



Tomentum scabrous or almost villous. Sepals 2 or 3 lines. Petals 



narrow 6. C. sidoides. 



Stems purplish, decumbent. Pods 3 or 4in. long, erect. Valves 

 3 or 4, scabrous, ending in a short straight point 7. 0. trilocularis. 



1. C. hygrophilus (found near water), A. Cunn. Herb.; Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 

 276. A tall, erect, glabrous herb, apparently annual. Leaves petiolate, ovate or 

 ovate- lanceolate, acuminate, 3 to 5in. long, acutely and irregularly toothed. 

 Cymes several-flowered, reflexed, shortly pedunculate, but rarely equalling the 



