394 XXVIII. TiLiACE^. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 



2. C. mergiiensls, Planch, ms. ; leaves lanceolate acuminate serrate 

 1-3-nerv.ed scabrous above puberulous beneath. 



TEKAaSEETM, at Mergai, Griffith. 

 • Leaves 6-8 by 2 in. ; petiole 4 in. Fruit H in. diam., downy, S-winged.— Imper- 

 fect specimens only seen. 



8. ERXNOCARFTTS, Mmmo. 



A tree. Zeaws long-petioled, roundish-cordate, toothed, 5-7-nerved, some- 

 times 3-lobed. Flowers large, yellow, in large terminal panicles. &pcds 5, 

 distinct. Fetals 5, clawed. Stamens numerous, springing from a raised 

 torus, free, or slightly united at the base. Ovary 3-celled, cells 2;0vuled ; 

 style filiform, stigma minute. Fruit indehiscent, woody, triangular, 

 3-winged, spiny, 1-oeUed by abortion. Seed solitary, pendulous, albumen 

 fleshy ; cotyledons ovate, flat.— The only species 



1. E. Nimmoanus, Grah. Cat. £omb. PI. 21 ; Beddome Flor. Sylvat. 

 t. 110 ; Dak. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 27. 



Western Peninsula ; the Concan and Dektan, Stocks, &c. 



Leaves 4 by 4| in., glabrous ; petiole 1-4 in. Stijmles caducous. Bracts 6-8 in., 

 tomentose, ovate-oblong. Flower-buds oblong. Flower S in. diam. Frvit 2 by 

 liin. 



9. TXtXUmFETTA, Linn. 



Herbs or undershrubs, generally more or less covered with stellate hairs. 

 Leaves serrate, siniple or lobed. Flower,s yellowish, in dense cymes. Sepals 

 5, oblong, concave. Petals 5. Stamens 5-35, springing from a fleshy, lobed, 

 glandular torus. Ovary 2-6-celled, cells 2-ovuled ; style filiform, stigma 

 5-toothed. Capsule globose or oblong, spiny or bristly, indehiscent or 3-6- 

 valved. Seeds 1-2 in each cell, pendulous, albuminous ; embryo straight, 

 cotyledons flat. — Disteib. A genus of about 40 very variable species, mostly 

 tropical weeds. 



* Fruit globose rarely ovoid. 



1. T. tomentosa, Bojer in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. ii. xx. 103 ; herbaceous or 

 suffruticose more or less downy, leaves variable, fruit globose covered with 

 straight spines. Mast, in Oliv. Flor. Trop. Afr. i. 258. T. ovata, DC. 

 Prodr. i. 507?. T. pilosa, - IFaH. Cat. 1080. T. pilosa. var. a, Thwaites Enum. 

 31. T. vestita, Wall. Gat. 1078, 1, % T. indica^ Ham. in Wall. Cat. 237, 

 1078 D ; W.& A. Prodr. i. 74. T. oblonga, Wall, in Dm Prodr. 227. 



Eastern Bengal; Silhet, Wallich; Simla, Govan; Assam, Griffith; CEifLOK.^ 

 Disteib. Mauiitius, Madagascar, East Tropical Africa, West Indies ? 

 , Stem hispid. Leaves 4 by 3 in., thinly stellate-hairy above, pubescent beneath, 

 ovate, acuminate, sometimes lobed, crenulate, base rounded, 5-7-nerved, upper obliquely 

 lanceolate, serrate, 3-nerved ; petiole about 2 in. /Stipu/es lanceolate. Flowers yellovi, 

 in interrupted spikes. Sepals apiculate, densely stellate-hairy. Stamens S-T . Fruit 

 the size of a large pea, hispid, spines ciliate along the lower edge, glabrous along the 

 Tipper, wi th a straight transparent briBtle:point. — ^It is not quite certain that the African 

 and Indian plants are specifically identical. Perhaps only a woolly state of T. pilosa.. 



2. T. pilosa, Both Nov. Sp. 223; herbaceous, bristly, bristles bulbous at 

 the base, lower leaves lobed upper ovate or ovate-lanceolate unequally 

 toothed, fruit globose tomentose covered with long hooked spines which 

 are glabrous along the upper hispid along the lower edge. W. & A. Prodr. 

 L 74. T/pilosa, i;ar. ^, Thwaites Enum. 31; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb... Fl. 25. 



