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tepals 5, linear, coloured: petals 5, shorter than the calyx: disk 
5-toothed, dilated at the apex: glands 5, attached round the disk 
and opposite the petals: ovary 2-4-celled: style 1, toothed at the 
apex: fruit globose, echinated, with hooked prickles, 
N. B. In this genus it may be right to caution to place little or 
no reliance on the shape of the leaves or their pubescence or sup- 
pression of the parts of the flower. Linnzeuscharacterized two species 
only, while modern Botanists swelled this number almost to fifty: 
but most of these are descriptions of so many individuals, not 
species. See W. & A. prod. I. p. 74. 
(1) T. prtosa. (Roth.) 
Ident. W..& A. prod. I. p. 74.—Dee. prod. I. p. 506.—Roth, 
Nov. Sp. p. 223. 
Sree. Cuan. Herbaceous: stem hairy or tomentose: uppef 
leaves ovate, acuminated, entire, lower ones somewhat 3-lobed, all 
, unequally serrated, hairy, under side tomentose: peduncles several 
‘to, ther, axillary, 3-flowéred: stamens 10: fruit hairy, about the 
sizc:-3f acherry, 4-celled, 8-seeded: prickles ciliated below with 
hairs: flowers yellow. 
Peninsula and Warree, Bombay. 
(2) T. aneunata. (Lam.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 74.—Dec. prod. I. p. 507. 
Syn. T. Bartramia, Linn. Roxb. fl. Ind. Il. p. 463. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 320.—Rumph. Amb. VI. t. 25. £. 2 
—Pluk. t. 41. f. 5. 
Spec. Cuan. Stems herbaceous: uppermost leaves ovate, acu- 
minate, lower ones cuspidately 3—5-lobed, hairy, serrated, peduncles 
2-3: together, axillary, 3-flowered: stamens 10: fruit’ pubescént, 
4-5-celled, 4-8 seeded: prickles glabrous: flowers yellow. 
Peninsula and Bengal, flowering nearly all the year, It is come 
aon everywhere; the fruit is small, about the size of a vetch seed, 
(3) T. notunpiron1a. (Lam.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 75.—Dee. prod. I. p. 506. 
Syn. T. suborbiculata, Dec. prod. I. p. 506. 
Srzc. Cuar. Perennial: stems pubescent: leaves roundish, un« 
equally and deeply toothed, underside tomentose: peduncles racee 
mose by the abortion of the leaves: stamens numerous : fruit densee 
ly pubescent, the prickles slightly so: flowers small, yellow. 
Circars and Bengal, flowering about September. 
(4) T. wectecta. (W. § A.) 
Tdent, W.& A. prod. I. p. 75, 
