tili aceje. 
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ved, leaves ovate or lanceolato-ovate equally serrated, 
stem much branched bifario-pilose. 
Corchoro affinis chamaedryos folio, flore flamineo, seniinibus 
atris quadrangulai’is duplici serie dispositis, Sloane , I. 145. t. 
94. f. 1. — Coreta foliis minoribus, Browne, 147. — Corchorus 
siliquosus, Swartz, Obs. 219. 
HAB. Common ; roadsides. 
FL. After rains. 
Suffniticose, erect, 1-2 feet in height: branches spreading, 
subterete, minutely bifario-pilose. Leaves small, ovate or lan- 
ceolato-ovate, acuminate with the apex sharp, serrated, 3-nerved 
at the base, glabrous : petiole compressed, with a line of pubes- 
cence above. Stipules minute, setaceo-subulate. Peduncle 
opposite to a leaf, solitary, very short, bearing 1-2 shortly 
pedicelled flowers: pedicels longer than the peduncle, furnished 
at the insertion with minute setaceo-subulate bracteas. Sepals 
5, linear, subulate. Petals 5, clawed, oblong. Stamens very 
numerous : filaments capillary: anthers roundish, yellow. ' Ovary 
oblong, green, glabrous: style protruding beyond the stamens, 
thick: stigma penicilliform. Capsule nearly 2 inches in length, 
compressed, with a line of minute hispid hairs along the sutures 
on each side, 4-toothed at the apex with the teeth blunt and 
spreading: seeds numerous, small, cubical, angular, black. 
According to Linnaeus, the vernal flowers are tetrandrous, 4- 
sepalled, and 4-petalled. 
2. Corchorus campestris. Savannah Broom-weed. 
Capsule linear acute 3-gonal puberulous, S-celled 
3-valved, leaves ovate serrate with the lower serratures 
setaceo-apiculated, branches with a single line of pu- 
bescence. 
HAB. Liguanea : roadsides and pastures. 
FL. After the May and Autumnal rains. 
Suffruticose, erect, about a foot in height: branches few, al- 
ternate, terete, with a line of hairs on one side. Flowers yel- 
low. Seeds numerous small. 
This species has a considerable resemblance in appearance to 
the preceding. 
3. * Corchorus asstuans. Horn-beam-leaved Corcho- 
rus. 
Capsules oblong 3-valved 6-sulcated, leaves snbcor- 
date ovato-acuminate serrated, lowest serratures ter- 
minating in a long bristle. — DeCand. 
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