CoECHOEUS.] TILIACJSJB. 119 



In dry and rocky ground ; Etawah, Gwalior, Bundelkhand, Merwara. 

 DiSTEiB.: Punjab, Bengal and southward to Mysore ; also in Burma. 



4. T. neglecta, W. & A. Prod. 75 ; F. B. I. i, 396. 

 -An annual with roughish branching stems. Leaves roundish, 3-5-nerved 

 at the base, 3-5-lobed, irregularly toothed, pubescent above, tomentose 

 beneath ; upper narrowed at both ends. Flowers small, in lateral extra- 

 axillary clusters, or by the abortion of the leaves arranged in an inter- 

 rupted raceme. Sepals linear. Petals oblong, obtuse, glabrous below. 

 Stamevs 5-10, filaments hairy on the back. Fruit oblong ; spines hooked 

 ciliated on their upper edges. 



Moradabad (T. Thomson), Lucknow, and probably elsewhere within the 

 area, but not common. Distbib.: Behar and southward to S. India and 

 Ceylon ; also in Abyssinia and Senegal. 



3.COBCHORUS. Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 396. 



Herbs or undershrubs, more or less stellate-pubescent. Leaves 

 simple. Peduncles axillary or leaf -opposed, 1-3-flowered. Flowers 

 small, yellow. Sepals 4-5. Petals 4-5, without glands. Stamens 

 many or definite, springing from a short torus. Ovary 2-5-ceIled ; 

 style short ; stigma cup-shaped ; ovules many. Capsule elongated 

 or subglobose, smooth or prickly, loculicidally 2-5-valved, sometimes 

 with transverse partitions. Seeds many, albuminous, pendulous or hori- 

 zontal. — Species about 30, throughout the tropics. 



Capsule subglobose 1. 0. capsularn. 



Capsule cylindrical. 

 -Beak of capsule entire and erect. 

 Annual or perennial herbs. 

 Stamens many, capsule long. 



Capsule glabrous, beak long . . 2. 0. olitorius. 



Capsule scabrous or hispid, 



short 3. C. trilocularis. 



Stamens 5-10 ; capsule short, hairy, 

 shortly beaked . . . . 4. C. fascicularis. 

 :A prostrate undershrub, capsule slender, 



stamens 8-10 6. C. Antichorus. 



Beak of capsule 3-fid, tips spreading. 



Capsule long, slender, without wings . 6. C. tridens. 

 Capsule short, stout, winged . , 7. 0. acutangulus, 



1. C. capsularis, Linn. 8p. PI. 529 ; Boxh. Fl. Ind. ii, 581 ; W, A A, 

 I'rod, 7i ; BoyU III. lOS ; D. ^ a. Bomb. Fl. 25 ; F. B. I. ♦, 3S7 ; DO . 



