74 MB. a. BEXTHAM ON TILIAOE.B. 



subglobosa, in valvulas 4-5 crassas, lignosas dehiscens, extus setis 

 brevibus confertissimis velutina. 

 Hah. Bootan and Darjeeling, Griffith; Sikkim, J. D. Hooker, distri- 

 buted as Echinocarpus n. 3 and 4. 

 It varies much in the shape and size of the leaf, as well as in the breadth 

 of the sepals; but I believe that the specimens I have brought together all 

 belong to one species. 



Tricuspidaria, Ruiz et Pav. 

 The Crinodendron Patagua of Molin should be united with Tri- 

 cuspidaria as a second species. The discrepancy in the character 

 attributed has arisen from the deciduous sepals.having been over- 

 looked, and the petals described as a calyx. These petals are in 

 both species, as in Plagiopteron, valvate in aestivation, which is 

 exceptional in the order. 



El^ocarpus, Linn. 



A. Gray has shown that JBeuthia, Endl., and Acronodia, Blume, 



do not differ generically from the true Elceocarpi, with which 



Ganitrus, Gaertn., and Aceratiuni, DC, had already been united. 



Monocera, Jack, including Dicera, Forsk., is often admitted by 



modem botanists as a good genus, distinguished by the aristate or 



cuspidate anthers, accompanied usually by larger flowers and more 



silky-hairy petals ; but the latter characters are not constant, and 



the points to the anthers, very variable in length, can scarcely be 



considered of more value here than in the allied genus Sloanea. 



But if Monocera be taken as a section only of Mceocarpus, the 



whole forms a natural, well-defined genus, distinguished from 



Sloanea and Echinocarpus by the form of the disk or torus, and 



by the drupaceous fruit; and likewise from the latter by the 



valvate sepals, and from the former by the petals. Aristotelia, 



Lher. (including Friesia, DC), still nearer allied to Flceocarpus, 



has the fruit baccate and small, not drupaceous ; and Vallea and 



Tricuspidaria are capsular. The species of Mceocarpus are all 



Asiatic or Australian (including the Pacific Islands) ; above 60 



are described or represented in our herbaria, but it is probable 



that a careful monographist would reduce them to about 45. 



Among the genera enumerated as Tiliaceous in Lindley's 

 'Vegetable Kingdom' or other recent works, Vantanea, Aubl., 

 belongs to Rumiriacece ; Bancroftia, Macf., is Tovaria, Euiz et 

 Pav., in Capparideas ; Anstrutheria, Gardn., belongs to Bhizopho- 

 ra ce <e {Legnotidem) ; Antholoma, Labill., which Planchon thinks 

 v be allied to Tiliacew, is probably much nearer Sapotacece. 



