XXV. TILIACEiE. 
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Triumfetta.] 
(Ridley). Distrib. Cochin-China, Java, Borneo, Cocos, Philippines 
and islands off Queensland. 
Excluded Species 
T. annua Linn. Mant. p. 73, is given as a weed from Perak by 
King, l.c. 117. The only specimens of King’s I have seen so labelled 
were T. pilosa. 
7. CORCHORUS, Linn. 
Herbs or shrublets more or less stellate-pubescent. Peduncles 
axillary i~ to 2-flowered. Flowers small, yellow. Sepals 4 or 5. 
Petals 4 or 5. Stamens free, indefinite or twice as many as petals 
on a short torus. Ovary 2- to 6-celled; style short. Stigma cup¬ 
shaped. Capsule elongate-cylindric angled, or sub-globose, 2- to 
5-valved. Seeds numerous, albuminous. Species 35, tropics 
generally. 
Capsule globose 
eylindric, smooth 
cyllndric, 10-ridged 
eylindric, 6-mnged 
(1) C. capsularis Linn. Sp. PL 746; Wight Ic. t. 311; Masters, 
in Hook. fit. F.B.I. i. 397; King, l.c. 117. 
Annual, shrubby, erect little branched 2 to 4 ft. tall, glabrous. 
Leaves lanceolate acuminate, coarsely serrate, base rounded with 
2 subulate appendages, 2 to 4 in. long, 75 to i’5 hi. wide; petioles 
•5 in. long. Stipules linear-subulate. Flowers in small axillary 
clusters, yellow, -i in. long. Capsule globose truncate, ridged and 
wrinkled, -5 in. long, *3 in. wide, on short stout 'i-in. peduncles, 
5-celled. Hab. Weed in waste ground, never cultivated, as King 
suggests. Perak, Ulu Bubong in open bamboo jungle (Kunstler); 
Perlis at Kanga. Distrib. India. 
( 2 ) C. tridens Linn. Mant. 366; Masters, l.c. i. 398. 
Shrubby herb, little branched about 2 ft. tall, nearly glabrous. 
Leaves glabrous, oblong-lanceolate sub-acuminate, base rounded, 
bluntly serrate, with 2 setaceous processes at base; nerves 6 
slender, 1*5 to 4*5 in. long, *5 to 1 in. across; petioles slender *4 in. 
long. Flowers *i in. long, yellow. Capsule eylindric, 17 i n - 
less than *1 in. thick, with 3 short recurved points at tip, no ridges 
or wings. Hab. Rocks by the sea or in dry open country. Johor, 
Minyak Buku, Batu Pahat. Province Wellesley, Permatang 
Bertam. Distrib. India, Australia. 
(3) C. olitorius Linn. Sp. PL 746; Masters , l.c . i. 397; King, 
l.c. 118. _ T 
Shrubby annual 2 ft. or more tall, nearly glabrous. Leaves 
ovate-lanceolate serrate, base rounded with 2 subulate appendages, 
2 to 4 in. long, 75 to 2 in. wide; petioles 75 to 1*5 in. long. Stipules 
linear. Flowers yellow. Capsule eylindric, 10-ribbed, 5-eelled, 
Fl.M.P., 1. X 
{1) C. capsularis 
(2) C. tridens 
(3) C. olitorius 
(4) C. acutangulus 
