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Meerut district, Bundelkhand, and probably elsewhere within the area. 

 DiSTBiB. : Punjab, Sindh and south to the Nilgiri Hills; also in 

 Afghanistan and I'rop. Africa. 



•4. C. fascicularis, Lamlc. Encyc. ii, 104 ; Roxh. Fl. Ind. ii, 5S2 ; Boyle 



III, 103 ; D. I G. Bomb. FL 24 ; F. B. I. i, 398 ; Watt E. D. 



Annual or perennial. Leaves 1-2 in. long, oblong-lanceolate, serrate ; 



petioles very short, pilose. Peduncles 2-5-flowered. Stamens 5-10. Caf- 



sules 3 or 4 together, short, subcylindric, hairy, shortly beaked; valves 



nearly destitute of internal' partitions. Seeds trigonous, black. 



Throughout the drier portions of the area, in the districts of Agra, 

 Gwalior and Bundelkhand. Disteib. : Punjab, Sindh, Bombay, Bengal and 

 south to Ceylon ; alsolin Trop. Australia and Africa. The whole plant is 

 mucilaginous and is used medicinally. 



5. C. Antichorus, RoiuscJi.Nom. Bot ed. Hi, 15S ,- F. B. I. i, 398 ; Wait 

 E. D. G. humilis, Munro Hart. Agrens. 35; D. 8f G. Boml. Fl, 25. Vern. 

 Baplndi. 



A small woody prostrate perennial with tortuous branches. Leaves -l-l 

 in. long, shortly stalked, roundish, plicate, crenate-serrate, baseS-nerved. 

 Peduncles short, stout. Stam.ens 8-10. Capsule ^-1^ in, long, cylindric, 

 slender, straight or curved, beaked, 4-valved. 



-In the drier portions of the area. Distrib. : Punjab, Sindh, Kathiawar, 

 Gujrf^t and the Deccan, extending to Afghanistan, Aden, Trop. Africa and 

 the Cape de Verd llslands. As a desert plant it is valued as fodder for 

 camels. 



6. C. tridens, Linn. Mant. 566 ; W. Sc A. Prod. 73 ; F.B.I, i, 39S ; Watt 

 E D. 



Annual. Leaves 1-3 in. long, linear-oblong or lanceolate, shortly stalked. 

 Peduncles 1-4-flowered. Capside cylindric, 1-2 in. long, terminated by 3 

 spreading points, clothed with tufts of glandular .hairs ; valves without 

 partitions. Seeds truncate at the ends, black. 



Agra (Munro), Etawah 'A. O. Hume). Disteib. : Throughout India 

 also in Afghanistan, Australia and Africa. 



7. C. acutangulus, Lamh. Encyclii, 104; W. cf A. Prod.. 73; Royle 

 ■J a. 103 ; B.Sf G. Boml. Fl. 25 ; F. B. I. i, 398 ; Watt E. D. C, fuscus, 

 Roxh. ; Fl. Ind. ii, 582. 



Annual. Leaves 1-3 in. long, more or less hairy, ovate and acute or oblong 

 and acuminate, serrate, with or without basal lobes ; stipules linear-subu- 

 late, shorter than the petiole. Ped-uicles 2-3-flowered. Capsule short, 

 G-ang'led, 3 of the angles winged ; beak 3-fid., divisions spreading horizon- 

 tally ; valves with or without paJ^titions. Seeds 1-seriate in each cell, 

 truncate at the ends. 



'Common throughout the area, and often mistaken for C. olitorius, when 

 not in fruit. It flowers during the rainy and cold seasons. DrsTRiB. : 

 Hotter parts of India and in Ceylon ; also in Australia, Trop. Africa and 

 the W. Indies. Dr. Watt thinks it quite possible that from this species 

 and C. trilocularis the cultivated forms of jute may have been produced. 



