Sparmannia. | TILIACEZ (Harv.) 223 
Has. 8. Africa, Burchell, Cat. 2417. Aapjes River, Zeyher! Zooloo Country, 
Miss Owen! (Herb. Hook., Sond., T.C.D.) 
The smallest of the Cape species. It differs from M. prostrata by its velvetty pu- 
bescence, copious in all parts, its shorter flower-stalks and much narrower bracts 
and calyx lobes. 
Orper XXIII. TILIACEZ, Juss. 
(By W. H. Harvey.) 
(Tiliacex, Juss. Gen. 290. D.C. Prod. 1. p. 503. Endl. Gen. No. 
ecxii. Lindl. Veg. Kingd. No. cxxxi. LElsocarpex, Juss., DC. Prod. 
I. p. 519.) : : sali 
Sepals 4—5, separate or united, valvate in xstivation, Petals 4~5 (or 
none), clawed, deciduous, entire or multifid, imbricate in the bud. 
Stamens rarely definite, hypogynous ; filaments filiform, separate or con- 
nate at base ; anthers 2-celled, introrse. Pollen smooth. Ovary free, 
sessile or on a columnar torus (gynophore), of 2—10 carpels, and as many 
cells ; styles single ; stigmas 2-10 ; ovules definite or indefinite. Frwit 
dry or succulent, frequently hispid or prickly, dehiscent or indehiscent. 
Seeds albuminous, with an axile embryo. 
; Trees, shrubs, or herbaceous plants, with simple, branched or stellate hairs, Leaves 
5 mostly alternate, and petiolate, simple, penni-nerved or palmately nerved, entire or 
lobed, Stipules deciduous, Flowers rarely unisexual, svlitary, racemose or corym- 
bose, naked or bracteate. 
Chiefly distinguished from Byttneriacex by the free, and usually indefinite stamens ; 
from Sterculiacee by the introrse anthers; and from Malvacex by the bilocular 
anthers and smooth pollen. All these Orders are closely allied, and agree in having 
tough, fibrous bark, suitable for textile purposes ; and innocuous, mucilaginous qua- 
lities. The typical genus, Tilia (the Lime or Linden), furnishes from its bask, the 
material of the Russian mats of commerce. Some of the Grewie have edible fruits. 
About 400 species are known, natives chiefly of tropical and sub-tropical countries. 
TABLE OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN GENERA. 
,¢  » Flower 4-parted. = - 
: I, Sparmannia,—Outer-stamens moniliform, without anthers. 
* _., ** Flower 5-parted, 
5 d. : 
| Il. @ Fruit » of hard-shelled, 1-2 seeded drupes. 
| TEL, rhein Cae ir covered iii Aplibed. or stznight, sharp- 
es eer ae ule pod-like, 2~5-valved, splitting, many-seeded. 
- I SPARMANNIA, Thunb. m 
_ Sepals 4, lanceolate, pointless, deciduous. Petals 4, hypogynous, 
obovate, spreading horizontally. Stamens indefinitely numerous ; the 
outer sterile, moniliform ; the iner fertile, with nodose filaments. 
Ovary sessile, 4—5-celled ; ovules numerous ; style columnar, stigma — 
5-toothed. Capsule globose or oblong, 4—5-celled, 4—5-valved, loculicidal, _ 
covered with rigid bristles. Endl. Gen. No. 5369. DC. Prod.t.p.503- 
Large, handsome, ing shrubs or small trees, natives of Africa. Only 
three species are yet known; two of them S. African, and one from Abyssinia. The 
leaves are alternate, softly tomentose, stellato-pubescent, on long petioles, 5~7-angled 
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