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TILIACEJE. 
* Corchorvs trilocularis, Linn., (C. triflorus, Bojer in Ann. Sc. Nat. 
ser. 2, xx. p. ICO), a common weed through the tropics of the Old 
World, is established in Mauritius at Port Louis, especially round the 
eastern suburb, Bojer ! Dr. Ayres ; and was gathered by Dr. Balfour 
in Bodriguez. It is an erect annual, with slender pilose or glabrescent 
branches, petioled toothed simple lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate leaves, 
1-3-flowered very short leaf-opposed peduncles, small yellow flowers, 
a cylindrical 3-valved pod 2-3 inches long, with a short beak, and trans- 
verse membranous partitions between the seeds. 
1. TRIUMFETTA, Linn. 
Sepals 5, valvate, ligulate-cuspidate. Petals 5, oblanceoiate, cadu- 
cous, rather protruded. Stamens definite or indefinite, inserted 
upon an elevated torus bearing with 5 glands ; filaments filiform ; 
anthers minute. Ovary 2-5-celled ; styles filiform, united to the top. 
Fruit a small globose prickly dehiscent or indehiscent capsule. — Weedy 
downy herbs or shrubs, with dense axillary clusters of minute yellowish 
flowers. Disteib. Bound the world in the tropics. Species about 40. 
1. T. rhomboidea, Jacq. Ic. Set. Amer . t. 90. A branched shrubby 
perennial, 2-3 feet high, with stems, leaves and calyx covered with 
dense short rough pubescence. Leaves short-petioled, in the typical 
form entire, oblong, with a cuneate base, irregularly distinctly crenate, 
acute, 1-2 inches long. Flowers in dense axillary sessile or sbort- 
peduncled fascicles, the upper approximated and their subtending 
leaves ofien small: buds cylindrical, •§-- £ inch long, densely pilose. 
Stamens 10-15, as long as the petals. Capsule the size of a pea, in- 
dehiscent, pilose, covered with dense hooked spines J inch long, 3- 
celled. 
Far. glakdulosa, (Lam.). Leaves larger, with longer petioles, 
round with a cusp, rounded at the base, either thin with soft grey 
hairs, or thicker with dense white tomentum beneath. T. glandulosa, 
Lam. Encycl. iii. 421. T. velutina, Vahl. T. Vahlii, Loir. 
Var. angxtlata, (Lam.). Leaves deeply or shallowly 3-lobed in 
the upper half, with deltoid segments. T. angulata, Lam. Bncyc. iii. 
421 ; Wight. Ic. t. 320. T. semitriloba, Bojer , LLort. Maur. 43. 
Mauritius, "Rodriguez, Seychelles, the type rare, the two varieties common 
in waste ground, and by roadsides. Everywhere in the tropics. Herbe a panier. 
* T. procumlers, Forst. ; DC. Prtd. i. 508, a native of the shores of 
Polynesia and Australia, has been found by Horne in one station in the 
Seychelles (and by Bojer in Galega island). It is a perennial herb with 
trailing woody stems sending out short erect branches, distinctly 
petioled toothed roundish-cordate leaves tomentose beneath, mostly 
deeply 3-lobed, flowers 1-3 together in peduncled axillary umbels, 
linear pilose sepals inch long, oblanceoiate bright yellow 7 petals as 
long as the sepals, fruit an indehiscent glabrous ball inch thick, 
armed with stout prickles. 
