^mfetta.] xxviii. tiliace^. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 895 



T. toraentosa, Wall. Cat. 1078 C. T. glandulosa, Hetjne lierb. ; Wall. Gat. 

 mi, 5. T. polycarpa, Wall. Gat. 1079. T. oblongata, Link. Enum. PI. 

 Umtt. Bw. ii. 5 ; Wall. Gat. 1077, 1, fi, 3. 



Throughout Tropical India, from Nipal and Kumaon to AvA and Malacca, Tka- 

 VANOOE, and Cevlon.— Djsteib. Abyssinia, West Tropical Africa. 



Upper leaves 3J-4 by 21 in., lower 3-lobed, stellate-hairy on both sides; petiole 

 I in,, villous. _ Stipules subulate-aristate, shorter than the petiole. Peduncles shorter 

 than the petiole. .Flowers fin., yellow. Sepah linear, apiculate. Petals oblong- 

 BOathulate, scarcely shorter than the sepals, ciliate at the base. Stamens about 10. 

 Fruit (including the spines) about the size of a cherry, 4-celled, 8-seeded. 



3. T. glabra. Herb. Miss.; W.' & A. Prodr. i. 75: suffruticose stem 

 pubescent, leaves subcordate 3-lobed 7-nerved, fruit globose covered with 

 hooked spines ciliated for nearly their whole length. 



Western Peninsula; Canara, atBalticalo, Bottler. 



Leaves 1^ by 2 in., glabrous, lobes coarsely and irregularly topthed, slightly cuspidate. 

 Flowers in terminal leafless clusters. Sepals apiculate. Petals oblong, glabrous at 

 the base. Stamens^ 30-35 (W. & A.), filaments glabrous. Fruit slightly hairy. — 

 Differs from T. semitriloha in the number of stamens and in the larger fruit. 



4. Ti rhomboldea, Jacq. ; BG. Prodr. i. 507 ; glabrous or pubescent, 

 leaves polynit)rphous, fruit small globose or ovoid pubescent and with 

 hooked spines. T. angulata. Lam. Diet. iii. 41 ; Wight Ic. t. 320 ; W.&A. 

 Prodr. L 74 ■ Thwaites Enum. 31; Dah. d; Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 25 i Wall. 

 Gat. 1075, 2, C ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. pt. i. 197. T. angulata, /3. acuminata, 

 WaU. Gat. 1075 ^. T. Bartramia, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 463 ; Wall. Gat. 1075, 

 D, E. l^.irAocxxlaxis, Roxb.Fl. Ind. ii.m'i; Wall. Gal. IQ&Z. T. vestita, 

 Wall. Gat. 1078, in part. 



Throughout tropical and subtropical India and Ceylon, ascending to 4000 ft. in the 

 Himalaya. — ^Disteib. Malay Islands, China, Tropical Africa. 



Herbaceous or suffruticose. Leaves ovate rhomboid or cordate, 3,-7-nerved, apex 

 acute or somewhat 3-lobed, serrate, variable in amount and quality of pubesoenoei 

 Flowers \ in., yellow, in dense cymes. Pedicels short. Flower-buds oblona;, club- 

 shaped, apiculate. Sepals oblong, apiculate. Petals oblong, ciliate at the base. Stamens 

 8-15. Capsule the size of a small pea, albido-tomentose between the spines, spines 

 hooked, glabrous or ciliated. — Some of the forms of this protean species are superficially 

 so different that they may be mistaken for distinct species. Ou examination, however, 

 'of large suites of specimens from various localities, it will be found that the forms 

 merge one into the other. The same variability occurs in Tropical Africa and elser 

 where — see Flora of Trop. Afr. i. 257. 



5. T. rotundifolia, Lam. Diet. iii. 421 ; leaves suborbiculate gla- 

 brescent above tomentose beneath, flowers in interrupted racemes, fruit 

 ■globose pubescent, spines conical subulate booked puoescent. W. <Sc A. 

 Prodr. I 75; Eotk Nov. Sp. 2a2 ; WaU. Gat. p. 237, 1076 B, C, D, E ; Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. I pt. 2, 196 ; Dak. dh Gibs. Bcrnib. Fl. 25. T. suborbiculata, DG. 

 Prodn'. i. 506. T. orbieulata, Koemg in Roacb. Sort. Beng. 36. T. bilocularis, 

 WaU. Gat. 1081, 



Westeen Peninsula and Central India, from Bandelkhand, Fdgeworth, to Maisor, 

 Peou, WalUeh. 



Suffruticose, roughish. Leaves l\ in., coriaceous, unequally serrate, lowei" serratures 

 thickened, rugose and glabrescent above, cream-coloured and pubescent beneath ; 

 petiole 4 in. Sepals apiculate, ajbido-tomentose. Petals oblong, ciliate at the base. 

 /Stamens 16-25. Fruit globose, the si^e of a pea, pubescent, spines dilated at the 

 base. — Possibly only a form of T. rhomboidea, but having larger fruits and the spines 

 •wider at the bage. L . - , - 



