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patent man}' spines all over, usually 4— celled but rarely 3— 

 celled, longitudinally dehiscent ; carpels not thick, endocarp 

 thin and subcrustaceous, exocarp reticulato-veiny ; dissepiment 

 thin ; spines hard, straight but hooked-tipped with a very 

 sharp transparent point, patently pilose on all sides and hairs 

 denser below, conical at the base, about 3 mm. long, per- 

 sistent. In fruit the pedicels erect-patent, straight, terete, 

 spreadingly very thinly pilose, articulated below, about 2^—3 

 mm. long ; peduncle short, as long as the pedicels, hard, 

 straight, terete, thinly spreadingly pilose, and often pubescent 

 "with curved short hairs on one side, fasciculately 3— pedicellate. 

 Seeds 2 in each cell, therefore 8 to a capsule, 2\ mm. long, 

 slightly compressed laterally and slightly angulated, broadly 

 cuneate below, subacute or subobtuse at the base, rounded 

 and with a slightly convex orifice at the apex, glabrous and 

 smooth, badio-ferruginous, variegated with deep-badious pow- 

 der under lens ; testa thick ; inner coat thinly membranaceous, 

 yellowish-rufous, slightly convex thick and dark at the top just 

 under the orifice of the testa ; albumen fleshy, white ; embryo 

 yellowish, about 2\ mm. long ; cotyledons broad, transversely 

 elliptical, truncato-retuse at the apex, truncato-subauriculate 

 at the base, entire, triplinerved with hidden veins ; hypocotyl 

 about as long as the cotyledons, oblong-fusiform ; radicle 

 whitish and obtuse. 



Nom. Jap. Easen-sb. 



Hab. CENTRAL and SOUTHERN JAPAN. 



(Distrib.) Corea. 



This species differs from Triumfetta annua Linn, in having 

 the hairy spines on the capsule and the leaves hairy on both 

 surfaces, the hairy stipules and peduncles. It is distinguished 

 from T. pilosa Roth, which have the solitary seed in each cell 

 of the fruit, bristly stem, larger and much hairy (hair stellate) 

 leaves, larger flowers, and larger fruit ; it is also allied to T. 

 tornentosa Bojer, but spines of the fruit are not straight ; it 

 also differs from T. trichoclada Link in not having the 

 7— nerved leaves, and 4-sepalous calyx. 



