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springing from a fleshy, lobed, glandular torus. Ovary 2-5-celled, cells 
2-ovuled ; style filiform, stigma 5-toothed. Fruit globose or oblong, spiny 
or bristly, indehiscent or 3-6-valved. Seeds 1-2 in each cell, pendulous, 
albuminous embryo straight, cotyledons flat. Distrib. A genus of about 
40 very variable species, mostly tropical weeds. 
Fruit tomentose, bristles shorter than itself ... 1. T. rliombaidea. 
„ villous „ longer „ ... 2. T. pilosa. 
„ glabrous „ „ „ ... 3. T. annua. 
1. Triumfetta rhqmboidea, Jacq. DO. Prod. i. 507 Erect, her- 
baceous or shrubby, annual, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves polymor- 
phous, but usually rhomboid, 3-lobed, coarsely and unequally serrate, 
the upper more or less lanceolate ; length 175 to 3 in., breadth nearly 
as much in the rhomboid, much less in the lanceolate forms ; petioles 
•25 to 1'25 in. Peduncles short, 4 to 6-flowered. Flowers about '15 in. 
long, the buds clavate. Sepals apiculate : petals oblong, ciliate 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. FI. Br. Ind. i. 395. T. angulata, Lam. Diet. iii. 41 ; Wight 
Ic. t. 320 ; W. & A. Prodr. i. 74 ; Thwaites Enum. 31 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 
Bomb. FI. 25 ; Wall. Cat. 1075, 2, C ; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. pt. i. 197. 
T. angulata, (3. acuminata, Wall. Cat. 1075 (i. T. Bartramia, Roxb. 
FI. Ind. ii. 463; Wall. Cat. 1075, D, E. T. trilocularis, Roxb. FI. Ind. 
ii. 462 ; Wall. Cat. 1083. T. vestita, Wall. Cat, 1078, in part. 
In all the provinces : a weed. Distrib. British India, Ceylon, 
Malacca, Archipelago, China, Africa. 
2. Triumfetta pilosa, Roth Nov. Sp., 233. Erect, herbaceous 
or shrubby, annual; the whole plant, but especially the young branches 
and the under surface of the leaves, villous, stellate -tomentose. Leaves ; 
the lower broadly ovate, sometimes 3-lobed ; the upper ovate to ovate- 
lanceolate, acute or acuminate, unequally and rather coarsely serrate 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. FI. Br. Ind. i. 394. T. pilosa, var. /?, Thwaites 
Enum. 31; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FI. 25. T. tomentosa, Wall. Cat. 1078 
C. T. glandulosa, Heyne Herb.; Wall. Cat. 1077, 5. T. polycarpa, 
Wall. Cat. 1079. T. ohlongata, Link Enum. PI. Hort. Ber. ii. 5; Wall. 
