268 XXIir. TILIACE.E. 



horizontal. Pruit capsular or indcliisccnt, Avith single- or several-seeded cells, 

 where several-seeded the cells often subdivided by spurious vertical or traus- 

 vcrse partitions. Seeds without any arillus, the testa usually coriaceous or 

 crustaceous. Albumen fleshy, rarely deficient. Embryo straight or rarely 

 curved or sliglitly folded. Cotyledons leafy or rarely fleshy, the radicle next 

 to the hilum, usually shorter than the cotyledons. — Trees, shrubs, or rarely 

 lierbs. Leaves alternate or very rarely opposite, simple, with pinnate or pal- 

 mate nerves, entire, toothed, or rarely lobed. Stipules usually free, and small 

 or deciduous. Flowers axilhuy, 'terminal or leaf-opposed, usually in little 

 cymes, often almost umbellate, either solitary and sessile or pedunculate, or 

 arranged in panicles. 



A large Order, chiefly tropical or subtropical, spread over both the New and the Ola 

 "World, with one cxtratropical genus {Tllia) in the northern and another {AristoteHa) in the 

 southern hemisphere. The Australian geuera are none of them eudeinic. the extratropical 

 Ai-istotelia is common to Chili and New Zoahnid. The others are all tropical and Asiatic, 

 GrevAii extending into Africa and CoYchoriis also pailially into America, Avhilbt Triuwfeiia 

 belongs equally to the New and the Old World. 



Anthers short, with confluent ce]ls. Calyx irregularly 3- to 5-lobcd. 



Petals entire. Capsule locnlicidal, each valve 2-\viaged . . . . 1. BERaYA. 

 Anthers short, with 2 paraHel distinct cells opening longitudinally. 

 Sepals distinct. Petals entire. 

 Drupe indehiscent, not echinate, entire or 2-lobed. Petals narrow, 



short, with a foveolate base. Trees or shrubs ,.,',., 2. Grkwia. 

 Fruit globular, echinate, indehiscent, or separating into 1-seedcd 

 cocci. Petals narrow, with a foveolate or pubescent base. 

 Shrubs or herbs 3, Tuiumfltxa. 



Capsule 2-to 5-cellcd, with several seeds in each, opening in valves, 

 nsually long and smooth, rarely short and echinate. Petals 

 usually ohovate or broad, without a foveola. Shrubs or herb* . 4. Corctiorus. 

 Anthers elongated, opening in tcrniinal valves or pores. Sepals dis- 

 tiuct. Petals (except in one species) lobr-d or fringed. 



Sepals 4, imbricate in 2 scries. Capsule echinate, 4-valved . , 5. Echixocahfus. 



Sepals 4 or 5, valvate. Fruit a berry 6. Akistotklia. 



Sepals 4 or 5, valvate. Fruit a drupe 7. EL.fiocARPt'S. 



1. BERRYA, Eoxb. 



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Calyx campanulate, irregularly 3- to 5-lobcd. Petals 5, without any 

 foveola at the base. Stamens numerous, free, without staminodia ; anthers 

 subg-lobose, the cells at length confluent into one. Torus not raised. Ovary 

 (2- ? or) 3-celled, with 4 ovules in each cell ; style sulmlate (2- ? or) 3-lohcd 

 (or the styles distuict?). Capsule nearly globular, opening locullcldally ii^ 

 2 or 3 valves, each valve bearing 2 vertical, diverging, coriaceous wings. 

 Seeds 1 or 2 in each cell, densely covered witli rigid hairs; albumen fleshy; 

 cotyledons leafy, flat. — Trees. Leaves entire, 5- or 7-ncrved. Flowers 

 small, white, the umbel-like cymes amnigcd in a terminal |)nnic!c. 



The genus coiisists of a single specie?^, connaon to tropical Australia and Asia. 



1. B. Ammonilla, Roxb. PL Coroni. iii. fiO, t. 26 1, var. roiundl/oUa. 

 A small tree, the youn;^- l)ranclies slightly tomentose. Leaves cordate-orbi- 

 cular, very* obtuse, 3 or 4? in. diameter, rigidly membranous, glabrous when 

 iuU-grown. Flowers of the Australian variety unlvuown, except from some 



