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TILIACE^. 



[Hypogynous Exogens. 



They have all a mucilaginous, wholesome juice. The leaves of Corchorus olitorius 

 are used m Egypt as a pot-herb. The berries of some of them are succulent and eat- 

 able. The species are most remarkable for the toughness of the fibres of theii' umer 

 bark, which are used for various economical purposes. Fishing lines and nets, rice 

 bags or gimny, and a coarse kind of linen called tat, are made in India of Corchoms 

 capsularis ; and the Russian mats of commerce are manufactured from the Tilia. The 

 bark of Luhea grandiflora is used in Brazil for taimmg leather. The wood of Luhea 

 divaricata, which is white and light, but very close gramed, makes good musket-stocks, 

 and wooden soles for shoes ; the Brazilians call all such A9oita cavallos, because the 

 sticks they use for di-iving their cattle are obtained from them. The flowers of Tilia, 

 separated from the bracts, are used in mfusion, according to Host, with much success 

 in vertigo and spasms ; they promote perspiration and alleviate coughs ; but if the 

 bracts and fruits are mixed with the flowers, the infusion then becomes astrmgent, and 

 confines the bowels. Some species of Grewia, as G. sapida, asiatica, &c., bear pleasant 

 acid berries, much used in the manufacture of sherbet. The wood of Grewia elastica, 

 called Dhamnoo, affords timber highly valued for its strength and elasticity, and there- 

 fore much used for bows, the shafts of carriages, &c. The excellent light timber called 

 Trmcomalee wood, employed in the construction of the Massoola boats of Madras, is 

 furnished by Berrya Aramonilla. The berries of Aristotelia Maqui are eatable, and 

 made into wme ; the tough bark makes the strings, and the wood the sides of musical 

 instruments. 



The leaves of Vallea cordifolia are used for dyemg yellow. The furrowed, sculptured, 

 bony fruit of the Elaeocarps, being freed from its pulp, forms handsome necklaces, 

 which are not uncommonly set in gold, and sold m the shops. The name Julpai, or 

 Olive, is applied to the fruit of some species of Elseocarp, which is eaten ; while that 

 of others is dried and used in the curries of the natives of India, and is also pickled. 

 Roxburgh did not succeed in extracting any oil from the fruit. Dr. Horsfield says that 

 the bark of one of the Java Elseocarps is bitter and used as an anthelmmtic. 



The mucilaginous, and at the same tune astrmgent, properties of the leaves and fruit 

 of certain Triumfettas, called Carapixo da Calcada in Brazil, which grow everywhere 

 in that country, especially on the road-side and m the vicmity of dwellings, render 

 them serviceable in injections for uiveterate gonorrhoeas. 



GENERA. 



I. TILEiE.— Corolla 0, 

 or the petals entire. An- 

 thers opening longitu- 

 dinally. 



Sloanid.e. 

 Hasseltia, H. B. K. 

 Ablania, Aubl. 



Trichocarpus, Schreb. 

 Dasynema, Schott. 



Adenohasium, Presl. 



Myriochceta, DC. 



Foveolaria, DC. 

 Sloanea, Linn. 



Sloana, Plum. 



Gynostoma, DC. 



Oxyandra, DC. 



GREWID.E. 



Vantanea, Aubl. 



Lemniscia, Schreb. 

 Apeiba, Aubl. 



Aubletia, Schreb. 

 Luhea, Willd. 



Brotera, Flor. Flum. 



Allegria, M09. et Sess. 

 Mollia, Mart et Ziicc. 



Schlechtendalia,SpT-ag. 

 Heliocarpus, Linn. 



Montia, Houst. 

 Entelea, R. Br. 

 Sparmannia, Thunb. 

 Clappertonia, Meisn, 



Honkenya, Willd. 

 Corchoropsis, Sit;6. etZuc, 

 Corchorus, Litin. 



Antichorus, Linn. f. 



Caricteria, Scop. 



Coreta, P. Br. 



Mcerlensia, DC. 



Ganja, Rumph. 

 Triumfetta, Plum. 



Lappula, DC. 



Bartramia, Gartn. 



? For pa, Blum. 

 Tilia, Linn. 



Lindnera, Reichenb. 

 Brownlowia, Roxb. 



Humea, Roxb. 

 Christiana, DC. 

 Grewia, Juss. 



Nehemia, Endl. 



Mallococca, Forst. 



Chadara, Forsk. 



Siphomeris, Boj. 



Microcos, Linn. 



Arsis, Lour. 



Damine, Endl. 



Vincentia, Boj. 

 Belotia, A. Rich. 

 Diplophractum, Besf, 

 Columbia, Pers. 



Colona, Cav. 

 Berrya, Roxb. 



Espera, Willd. 

 Muntingia, Linn, 



Calabura, Plukn. 

 Trilix, Linn. 



Jacquinia, Mut. 

 Bancroftia, Macfad. 

 Aristotelia, Herit. 



II. ELiEOCARPE^.— 



Petals lacerated. An- 

 thers opening by a 

 transverse valve at the 

 apex. 



Elseocarpus, Linn. 



9 Adenodiis, Lour. 



Lochneria, Scop. 



Ganitriis, Gartn. 



? Craspedum, Lour. 

 Monocera, Jack. 



Diceras, Endl. 



Dicera, Forst. 

 Beythea, Endl. 

 Friesia, DC. 

 Acronodia, Blum. 



Acrozus, Spreng. 

 Vallea, Mut. 

 Tricuspidaria, Rz.et Pav. 



Tricuspis, Pers. 

 Crinodendron, Molin, 



Numbers. Gen. 35. Sp. 350. 



Position. — Malvaceae. — Tiliace^.- 



Tremandracew. 



