m 
springing from a fleshy, lobod, glandular torus. Ovary 2-5-celted, cells 
2-ovuled ; stylo tiliforra, Htigma 5-toothed. Fruit globose or oblong, spiny 
or bristly, iudehiseent or 3-6-valved. Seeds 1-2 in each coll, penduluus, 
albuminous embryo straight, cotyledons flat. Disfcrib. A genua of about 
40 very variable species, mostly tropical weeds. 
Fruit tomentose, bristles shorter than itself ... 1. T. rhomboidea. 
„ villous „ longer „ ... 2. T. pilosa. 
glabrous „ „ „ ... 3. T. annua. 
1. Trujmfetta RuoiiBOiDKA, Jacq. DC. Prod. i. 507 Erect, her- 
baceous or shrubby, annual, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves polymor- 
phous, but usually rhomboid, 3-lobed, coarsely and unequally serrate, 
tho upper more or less lanceolate; length 1*75 to 3 in., breadth nearly 
as much in the rhomboid, ranch less in tho lanceolate forms ; petioles 
'25 to 1"25 in. Peduncles short, 4 to 6-flowered. Floivers about '15 in. 
long, the buds clavafce. Sepals apiculate .- petals oblong, ciliaie at the 
base. Stamens 8 to 15. Fruit about 2 in. in diam., globose, tomentose, 
covered with short glabrous or pubescent hooked spines. Masters in 
Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 395. T. aiujulata, Lam. Diet. iii. 41 ; Wight 
lc. t. 320; W. & A. Prodr. i. 74; Thwaites Emim. 3L ; Dalz. & Gibs. 
Bomb. Fl. 25 ; Wall. Cat. 1075, 2, C ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. pt. t 197. 
f l\ angulata, /?. acuminata, Wall. Cat. 1075 f3. T, Bartramia, Roxb; 
PI, Ind. ii. 4(53; Wall. Cat. 1075, D, 13. T. triloculare, Roxb, Fl. Ind. 
ii. 462 ; Wall. Cut, 1083. T. vestita, Wall. Cat. 1078, in part. 
In all the provinces: a weod. Distrib. British India, Ceylon, 
Malacca, Archipelago, China, Africa. 
2. Triumfetta- pilosa, Rotli Nov. Sp., 233. Erect, herbaceous 
or shrubby, annual; the whole plant, but especially the young branches 
and tho under surface of the leaves, villous, stellate -tomentose. Leaves ; 
the lower broadly ovate, sometimes 3-lobed f the upper ovate to ovate- 
lanceolate, acute or acuminate, unequally and rather coarsely son-ate or 
dentate ; length 2 to 4*5 in., breadth 1 to 1 *75 in ; petiole '5 to 1 in. 
Stipules linear-subulate. Peduncles many-flowered, usually shorter than 
the petiole. Calyx "25 in. long, sparsely hairy. Petals spathulate- 
oblong. nearly as long as the calyx. Fruit globular, about '25 in. in 
diam., villous, densely covered with spines longer than itself which are 
hispid below, glabrous above, and usually hooked at the apex. W. & A. 
Prodr. i. 74; Hook. fil. EL Br. Ind. i. 394. T. pilosa, var. /?, Thwaites 
Knam. 31 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 25 T. tommUosa, Wall. Cat. 1078 
C. T. (jlamlulasa, Heyne Herb.; Wall. Cat. 1077, 5. T. polycarpa, 
Wall. Cat. 1079. 2 T . oblongata, Link Enum. PI. Uort. Ber. ii. 5; Wall. 
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