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 Broadly cordate, acute, sharply serrate; petiole sheathing at "base. Flowers 

 small, white, dioecious, numerous in pendulous panicles ; pedicels short, bracteo- 

 late, in the female jointed under the flower, in the male not. Male : calyx-tube 

 short, lobes generally 5; petals 5, oblong, acuminate, induplicate-valvate; sta- 

 mens usually 5 •, disc flat ; rudiment of ovary or of 1-3 small bristles. 

 Female ; calyx-tube ovoid ; limb minute, 3-6-toothed ; petals and stamens ; 

 ovary 3-5-celled, disc inconspicuous ; style very short, stigmas 3-5, cylindnc; 

 ovule solitary pendulous in each cell. Drupe small, purple, obliquely ovoid, 

 crowned by the stiprmas, 4-celled, 1-aeeded. Seed linear, curved ; albumen 

 iieshy; embryo minute. 





1. T. tilieefolia, DC. Prodr. iv. 257; Seem. Journ, JBoL iii. 361, t. 41. 



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Leaves 6 in. diam., adult elabrous or slisrhtly pubescent on the nerves beneath, 



membranous, palmate ly nerved from the base; petiole often 3-4 in. 

 1 ft., very compound, minutely pubescent or glabrous, with a few scattered hnear 

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 with far fewer more scattered flowers. Fruit I in., ovoid, glabrous. 



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