306 XXV. tiliace.®. [Corchorus. 
2 in. long. Hah. Occasional weed never cultivated. The jute. 
Selangor, Bukit Kutu (Ridley). 
(4) C. acutangulus Lam. Did. ii. 104; Wight Ic. t. 739; 
Masters, l.c. i. 398; King, l.c. 118. 
A herbaceous or slightly woody plant, prostrate or erect branched, 
nearly glabrous, stem with a line of pubescence running up it. 
Leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate acute or acuminate, serrate, base 
rounded, -5 to 3 in. long, -2 to 17 in. wide, herbaceous; petioles 
*1 to 1 in, long. Stipules long, subulate. Flowers '2 in. long, 
yellow, in axillary pairs. Capsule 1 to 1*5 in. long, cylindric, 
6-winged with 3 terminal beaks, 3-celled. Hab. Open ground and 
rocks by the sea very variable. Singapore, Chan Chu Kang. 
Johor, Gunong Pantai base (Kunstler). Pahang, Tembeling River 
sand-banks, a dwarf form; Pulau Jellam, Pahang River. Selangor, 
Port Swettenham. Perlis, Tebing Tinggi; Penang, Telok Bahang 
(Curtis). Distrih. India, Australia, Africa, West Indies. Native 
name : Rumput Baya Roaza. 
8 . COLUMBIA, DC. 
Trees often hairy or pubescent. Leaves alternate, lanceolate 
often serrate, base usually obliquely bilobed. Flowers in terminal 
panicles, bracteate. Sepals 5, lanceolate or oblong. Petals shorter 
or about as long. Stamens numerous. Fruit a winged capsule, 
wings 2 to 4. Species about 5, Malaya, India, Annam, China. 
Leaves lanceolate, long-acuminate, base unequal, grey 
beneath . . . . . , . (1) C. serratifolia 
Leaves broad ovate, base unequal . . . . (2) C. integrifolia 
Leaves small, oblong or elliptic, acuminate, sub- 
glabrous, base nearly equal, nor cordate. 
Wings of fruit 2.(3) C. diptera 
Wings of fruit 4.(4) C. Curtisii 
(1) C. serratifolia DC. Prod. i. 512. 
Tree. Branches villous. Leaves lanceolate acuminate, serrate 
towards tip, base unequally bilobed, glabrous above; nerves hairy 
or pubescent, beneath minutely velvety grey, ‘io in. long, 3 in. 
wide or less; petioles '25 in. long. Panicles 6 in. or more long, 
2 to 4 in. wide. Flowers numerous about -5 in. across; pedicels 
*2 in. long. Bracts whorled, obcuneate, deeply cleft into laciniae. 
Sepals lanceolate acute, white-pubescent outside. Petals shorter, 
nearly glabrous, oblanceolate thin, orange yellow speckled red. 
Capsule obovoid, 4-winged, wings narrow, ribbed transversely 
■5 in. long and wide. Hab. Johor, Penyabong (Foxworthy); 
Pahang, Pulau Tiuman, Juara Bay (Burkill); Pianggu, Endau 
(Evans). Distrih .. Borneo, Celebes, Philippines. 
(2) C. integrifolia Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 57, p. 26. 
Tree 30 ft. tall. Branchlets stellate-hairy. Leaves oblong, 
shortly acuminate, base unequally lobed, 1 lobe *5 in. longer than 
