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capsule much exceeded by the bracteoles: seeds many, cylindrical. — SI. t. 127./. 4, 5. 

 Besc. Fl. 4. t. 302. — Flowers yellow, If" long. — Hab. Bahamas !, Jamaica I, aU coll., 

 common ; Caribbean Islands 1 j [Cuba I and Mexico ! to Brazil ! and Peru ! ; Galapagos !]. 



2. T. parviflora, Benth. ! Shrubby, villous ; leaves biglandular at the base (or 

 "eglandular"), ovate, bluntish, coarsely creaate-serrate above the cuneate base, shortly 

 petioled, velvety beneath ; flowers subsessile, free from the petiole : bracteoles linear, entire, 

 nearly equalling the calyx ; calyx hirsute, 5-lobed, a little exceeded by the petals; capsule 

 half as long as the bracteoles ; seeds few, ovoid-globose. — T. tomentosa, Kth. (fion W.) : a 

 monstrosity with 6 petals, — Habit of Melochia hirsuta; calyx 3"'-4"' long. — Hab. Trini- 

 dad!, Lockh., Or.; [Guiana!, Brazil I]. 



3. T. Fuinilea, X. Annual, hirsute ; leaves eglandular, oblong-lanceoktc, inciso-serrate 

 above the tapering base, shortly petioled, floriferous clustered : veins excurrent between the 

 serratures ; flowers sessile, inserted into the summit of the petiole ; calyx hirsute, 5-parlite, 

 equalling the linear, entire bracteoles, enclosing the convolute petals : segments linear ; cap- 

 sule nearly as long as the bracteoles : seeds inciurved, deeply scrobiculate. — SI. t. 127-/. 6. 

 — A few inches high, or spithameous ; flowers 2"'-3"' long, tawny : petals clawed, with a 

 roundish limb. — Hab. Jamaica!, iS»., WWtfjcAA, in sandy savannahs. 



2. TBIAGiSr-er: 



^^^i^si^f^^y^'i t /^-^ 



Calyx campanulate, 5-dentate. Petals 5, sessile at the calyx-throat. Stamens 5, anthers 

 sagittate. Ovary sessile : styles 3, entire below the 6-fid summit : placentas 3. Ca/psule 

 3-seeded, medianicide-3-valved to the base : seeds scrobiculate. — A small shrub ; leaves mi- 

 nute, pinnatifid, stipulate ; flowers axillary, titracteolate, shortly pedicellate. 



This genus is intermediate between Tumera and Piriqueta: it is distinguished from 

 Turnera by its calyx and the capsnle-valves of Piriqueta, from the latter by the less divided 

 styles, the inflorescence and habit, and from both by its 3-seeded capsule. 



4. 'T. microphylla, Gr. — ^Turuera, Desv. — Habit of Ayenia ; branchlets spreading, 

 rugnlose-warty, hairy, glabrescent : inferior internodes much longer than the leaves ; leaves 

 2"'-3"' long, 1'" broad, eglandular, glabrous above, hairy beneath, plaited with impressed 

 lines between the lobes : lobes 3-4-jugal, revolute on the margin, ovate, pointed ; petiole 

 very short ; pedicels 1'" long, or shorter, from the axils of clustered leaves ; calyx 2"' long ; 

 campanulate tube as long as or longer than the oblong, snbentire bracteoles : teeth ovate, 

 pointed, 3—4 times shorter than the tube, a little exceeded by the spathulate, sessile petals ; 

 stamens equalling the calyx-tube ; ovary strigose ; capsule subglobose, exceeding the bracte- 

 oles ; seeds bluntly cylindrical, slightly incurved, minutely scrobiculate : carunde minute. — • 

 Hab. Bahamas!, Swains.; [Cuba!, Haiti]. 



3. TRIBOLACIS, Gr. {n.gen.). 



Calyx clavate, constricted above the base, 5-dentate. Petals B, sessile, inserted into the 

 middle of the calyx-tube. Stamens 5 : anthers incumbent. Ovary sessile ; styles 3, filiform, 

 entire below the 3-fid summit : placentas 3. Capsule 3-seeded, medianicide-3-valved to 

 the base : seeds scrobiculate. — ^A sufirutesceut, glabrous, rush-like herb ; leaves filiform, 

 sessile, exstipulate ; flowers in a few-flowered, terminal raceme : pedicels short, continuous 

 S-iracteolate at the top. 



This genus approaches Piriqueta. Its stiff habit is quite peculiar, and recalls some 

 Linaria. 



5. T. jnncea, G^r.-^Root slender, creeping, perennial, with a c^spitose tuft of stiff 

 stems and branches ; stem 1' high, 1'" thick or less, much branched at the base, striate- 

 cylindrieal, growing aphyllous below at the time of flowering ; leaves distant, 12"'-6"' long, 

 i'" broad, the uppermost decrescent, transformed into bracts ; raceme 6-1 0-flowered, inter- 

 rupted below ; pedicels 1 '" long ; calyx 4'" long : subcylindrical base 1'" long, as long as the 

 oblong-linear bracteoles, distinct by a slight stricture from the upper clavate portion : teeth 

 i'" long, pointed, traceable downwards, where they are connected by the membraneous part 

 of the tube ; petals delicate, convolute, spathulate, 3'" long, shortly exserted ; stamens ad- 

 herent a little to the lowest part of the calyx-base, equalling the calyx : anthers oblong ; 



