PLATE 318. 
Triumrerra pitosa, Roth. (Fl. Cap., Vol. I, p. 227). 
Natural Order, TILIAcBAg. 
An undershrub, 3 to 6 feet high, bearing yellow flowers, and deasely steliate 
tomentose in all parts, except the stamens and styie. Leaves alternate, petiolate, 
stipulate, ovate-oblone, acuminate, the lowest 3-lobed, remainder subcordate at 
base, gradually smaller upwards, the uppermost very small and lanceolate, all 
unequally serrate ; dull green above, much lighter coloured beneath, 3-5-veined at 
base, lowest ones 6 inches long, 4 inches wide, uppermost # inch by + inch; petiole 
of lower leaves 2 to 3 inches long, terete; stipules subulate, 4 to 5 lines long 
Peduncles clustered at nodes, short, branched, the branches very short, 3-flowered ; 
pedicels 1 to 2 lines long, bracteate at base, bracts linear, slightly longer than 
pedicels. Sepals 5, linear, apiculate. Petals 5, oblong-spathulate, hairy at base 
only, shorter than sepals. Stamens 10, inserted inside the disk, equalling the 
petals; filaments with transverse markings; anthers oblong, 2-celled. Disk 
cupular, pilose above, 5-glandular beneath. Ovary superior, 4-celled, cells divided 
by a false parietal vertical dissepiment, each cell 2-ovuled, ovules collateral. 
Capsule globose, hispid, thickly covered with hooked spines which are pilose in the 
lower portion only, the whole capsule including the spines 4 inch or more in 
diameter. 
Habitat: Navau: Coast and Midlands. Inanda, 1,850 feet alt., April, Wood, 
No. 526; near Durban, 150 feet alt., April, Wood. 
Drawn and described from specimens gathered near Durban, April, 1908. 
This is the second species of Triumfetta figured in this work, the other being 
T. effusa, Plate 252, and the remarks under T. effsa will in the main apply to this 
plant also, but its capsules are larger than those of T. effusa, and would most likely 
be even more troublesome to sheep farmers than those of that species. It is also 
a native of India, Ceylon, Abyssinia, and Tropical India. 
fig. 1, calyx lobe; 2, corolla lobe; 3, flower, calyx, and corolla removed; 4, 
a stamen ; 5, cross-section of capsule ; all enlarged, 
