TIUACEM n 



URENA. F.B.I. 26 VI. 



Similar in habit to SIDA but the flowers with an 

 epicalyx of 5 bracteoles attached to the calyx, and the 

 styles twice as many as the carpels. Ripe carpels 

 covered with hooked bristles. Radicle in the seed point- 

 ing downwards. 



Species very few, in tropical countries. 



Urcna lobata Linn. ; F.B.L i 329, VI I. An undershrub 

 with slender branches covered as are all green parts 

 with stellate hairs. Leaves deeply lobed, palmately or 

 pinnately, the middle lobe in the lower leaves much the 

 largest, and with shallow serrations all round the margin ; 

 dark green above, lighter below. Flowers solitary or two 

 or three of unequal ages, in the leaf axils. Calyx of ten 

 parts, five outer green bracteoles, five inner lighter and 

 thinner sepals. Corolla I inch diameter, pink with darker 

 centre, usually turned down or to the back, and more so 

 with age. Staminal tube cylindrical, with only a few 

 scattered anthers attached near the upper end, which is 

 entire not toothed. Stigmatic arms 10, capping the 

 staminal tube. Ovary five-celled. Fruit of 5, one-seeded 

 parts, thickly covered with hooked bristles, t. 292. 



Nilgiris : Coonoor and at lower levels. 



Gen. Dist. Throughout the hotter parts of India, and in the tropics 

 generally. 



TILIACE/E. 



In Vol. I the genus EL^OCARPUS alone is described, 

 and it was stated that this genus is by some separated 

 as a distinct family. This is done in Gamble's Flora of 

 the Madras Presidency- Of the true TILIACE.(E we 

 have: 



