396 XXVIII. TiLiACE^. (Maxwell T. Masters.) [Triumfetta. 



6. T. semitriloba, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. i. 507 ; herbaceous or suffrutes- 

 cent, pubescent villous or glabrescent, leaves variable, fruit globose prickly, 

 prickles hooked shaggy or ciliated scarcely dUated at the base. Wall. Cat. * 

 1075, partly. 



Tbnasserim ; at Tavoy, Gomez. — Disteib. A tropical -weed. 



Stem hi8pidulou3. Leaves cordate-ovate, sub-3-lobed, coarsely and irregularly 

 toothed, 5-7-nerved, downy, upper leaves smaller ovate-lanceolate ; petioles 2-4 in. 

 Flowers in clusters along the sides of the branches. Buds oblong. Sepals apicnlate. 

 Petals ciliate at the base. Stam£ns 10-15. Fruit the size of a large pea, 4^6-valved, 

 barbed. — A variable plant as to pubescence and form of leaf, and closely allied to 

 T. rhomboidea, but differs in its larger fruit with bristly or shaggy spines. 



7. T. annua, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. L 507 : annual, nearly glabrous, leaves 

 ovate acuminate toothed, fruit glabrous globose covered with long hooked 

 spines. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 196. T. polycarpa, Wall. Cat. 1079, 

 partly. T. trichoclada. Link, ex DC. Prodr. i. 507; WaM. Cat. 1082. 

 T. indica, Lam. Diet. iii. 420 1 



Tkopical Himalaya, from Simla to Sikkim ; the Khasia Mia., Assam, Concah, 

 AvA, and Andaman Islands. — Distrib. Malay Archipelago, Tropical Africa. 



Stem 1-2 ft., with a line of hairs along one side, shifting at each joint. Leaves 4-5 

 by 2-4 iu. ; petiole long. Stipules subulate. Peduncles \ in., extra-axillary, 3-flowered. 

 Flowers about \ in. Petals orange, nearly as long as the apicnlate sepals. Stamens 

 10. Fruit the size of a large pea, glaucous, 4-celled ; spines glabrous. 



8. T. cana, Blume Bijdr. i. 116; leaves ovate-oblong or lanceolate 

 acuminate slightly cordate unequally toothed thinly stellate-hairy above 

 densely beneath, peduncles extra-axillary, sepals tomentose, fruit globose, 

 spines straight ciEated. 



The Khasia Mts. and Chittagong, Hook. & Thorns. ; Assam, Sincapore, G. Thomson 

 — DisTBiB. Java, Hongkong. 



Stem hispid. Leaves 2 by f in. ; petiole 1 in. Flowers scarcely J in. Stamens 

 10-12. Fruit the size of a small pea ; prickles hispid, with a slender transparent 

 straight point. 



** Prwii oblong. 



9. T. negrlecta, W. & A. Prodr. i. 75 ; annual, leaves roundish, 

 stamens 5-10, fruit oblong indehiscent covered with hooked spines ciliated 

 on the upper edge. Mast, in Oliv. Flor. Trap. Afr. i 255. T. pentandra. 

 GuUl. & Perr, Fl. Seneg. i. 93, t. 19 ; Ham. in Wall. Cat. p. 237, 1075 F. 

 T. pUosul ', Thwaiies Enum. 401. 



NoETH Western India, Boyle; Western Peninsula; Ceylon, at Trincomalee. — 

 Distrib. Abyssinia, Senegal. 



Slightly hairy, branched. Leaves subcordate, acuminate or slightly 3-lobed, serrate, 

 hairy on both surfaces, especially beneath, upper lanceolate. Flowers small, ^ in., in 

 lateral extra-axillary clusters. Sepals linear. Petals oblong, obtuse, glabrous below. 



Wight and Amott, in Prodr. i. 75, describe as T. ? mioraphyna, a Peninsular plant 

 known only in a malformed condition. Stems herbaceous, erect, branched, glabrous ; 

 leaves oblong-lanceolate, not lobed, sharply serrate, glabrous; peduncles bearing 1-3 

 flowers, opposite ? to the leaves ; stamens 5-8. — It is perhaps a state of T. pUosa eaten 

 down by the cattle or goats. 



10. CORCHORVS, Linn. 



Herbs or undershrubs, more or less covered with stellate pubescence. 

 Leaves simple. Peduncles axiUary or opposite to the leaves, 1-2-flowered. 



