TIL I ACE AJ. 
Ill 
3. Triumfetta rhombo'idea. Rhomb-leaved Bur- 
weed. 
Leaves rhomboidal lower ones sub-5-lobed, middle 
ones sub-3-Iobed, the upper ones oblong, all of them 
calloso-serrated stellato-velutine on both sides and 
somewhat wedge-shaped at the base, flowers axillary, 
capsules echinated subpilose 6-celled. 
Jacq. Arner. 147. t. 90. — Lindl. coll. t. 29. — De Cand. Prod. 
I. 507 — T. rhombesefolia, Swartz, FI. hid. Occ. 863. 
HAB. Common. 
FL. Throughout the year. 
A shrub, erect, 3-4 feet in height: branches subdichotomous, 
strigose, purpurascent. The upper leaves shortly petiolate, or 
subsessile, ovate or ovato-lanceolate ; the lower ones on long pe- 
tioles, broad, rhomboidal, obscurely 3-5-lobed ; in both, entire at 
the base, calloso-serrated, rugose, stellato-pubescent : petiole of 
the same length as the leaf. Peduncles axillary, 3 together, 3- 
fid, very short, unequal : flowers very numerous, aggregato- 
racemose, on short pedicels. Calycine sepals with a conical 
apicula below the apex, linear, pubescent, coloured, reflected. 
Petals 5, oblong, with a short hairy claw, patulous, rather 
shorter than the sepals. Filaments 15, length of the sepals, 
papillose, erect, yellow : anthers 2-celled, transversely dehis- 
cent. Ovary hispid with herbaceous hooked hairs ; style erect, 
length of the stamens : stigma 3-cuspidate. Capsule globose, 
6-celled : seeds solitary, angulated. 
I have uniformly found the stigma 3-cnspidate, and the 
capsule 6-celled. According to Swartz and Jacquin the stigma 
is simple and acute, and according to the first mentioned author 
the capsule is usually 3-, but also sometimes 4-5 or 6-celled. 
III. Muntingia. 
Calyx 5-7 partite, deciduous. Petals 5-7- Sta- 
mens oo, free. Ovary sessile globose surrounded at 
the base with a circle of hairs. Style 0. Stigma ca- 
pitato-radiate persistent. Berry 5-cel led, cc-seeded. 
Seeds minute nidulant in a pulp. Embryo small. — 
De Cand. 
Named after Abraham Munting, Professor of Botany at 
Groeningen. 
1. Muntingia calabura. Jamaica Muntingia. 
Loti arboris folio angustiore, rubi flore, fructu polysperrno 
