Flora Medica

or less closely combined into a capsule bristling with setaehooked at the point. Seeds 2, or solitary,in each cell. DC.293. a. T. Lappula Linn, sp.pl. 637. i.DC.prodr. 506.West Indies and Brazil.Leaves cordate, roundish, unequally toothed, somewhat villous,5-nerved, 3-lobed ;lobes acuminate. DC.293. b. T. semitriloba Linn. mant. 73. i.DC.prodr. 507.West Indies and Brazil.Leaves ovate at the base, 3-lobed, with callous serratures, velvety oneach side; the lower almost 5-lobed, the upper oblong, undivided.Calyx pubescent ; sepals apiculate. Fruit globose, hairy, echinate, withthe setae hairy backwards. DC. The mucilaginous, and at the sametime astringent, properties of the leaves and fruit of these shrubs, calledCarapixo da Calcada in Brazil, which grows everywhere, especiallyonthe road-side and in the vicinity of dwellings, render it serviceable forinjections in inveterate gonorrhoea.148