82 TILIACER. '  [Entelea. 
Stamens numerous, rarely few, usually inserted on the torus, which 
is often elevated and disc-like; anthers 2-celled. Ovary free, 
2-10-celled ; style simple or divided into as many lobes or stigmas 
as there are cells to the ovary; ovules few or many, attached to 
the inner angle of the cell. Fruit dry or fleshy, dehiscent or inde- 
hiscent, 2-10-celled, or by abortion 1-celled. Seeds solitary or 
many ; albumen usually copious, fleshy ; embryo straight or seldom 
curved, radicle next the hilum. 
An order comprising about 45 genera and 350 species, chiefly tropical and 
subtropical. One genus (Tilia) is found in the north temperate zone; and 
several are endemic in southern latitudes or extendthereto. The most important 
economic plant is Corchorus capsularis, which yields the fibre known as jute. 
All the species are innocuous. Of the three New Zealand genera, Hntelea is 
endemic ; Aristotelia extends to Australia, Tasmania, and temperate South 
America; while Hig@ocarpus is mainly Indian and Malayan, stretching south- 
wards to Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific islands. 
Leaves large, alternate. Capsule clothed with rigid 
bristles ie - 1. ENTELEA. 
Leaves opposite. Fruit a berry xs - .. 2, ARISTOTELIA. 
Leaves alternate. Fruit a drupe sf wa .. 3. ELOCARPUS. 
1, ENTELEA, R. Br. 
A shrub or small tree. Leaves large, alternate, cordate, 5—7- 
nerved, toothed or crenate. Flowers in terminal umbelliform 
cymes, large, white, bracteate. Sepals 4-5, free. Petals the same 
number, crumpled. Stamens numerous, all fertile, free; anthers 
versatile. Ovary 4-6-celled; style simple; stigma terminal, denti- 
culate or fringed ; ovules numerous in each cell. Capsule globose, 
covered with long rigid bristles, loculicidally 4-6-valved. Seeds 
numerous, oboyoid ; testa coriaceous ; albumen oily. 
The genus consists of a single endemic species. It is very closely allied to 
the South African Sparmannia. 
1. BH. arborescens, f. Br. in Bot. Mag. t. 2480.—A handsome 
shrub or small tree 8—-20ft. high, with a trunk 5-9in. diam.; 
wood exceedingly light. Young branches, leaves, petioles, and in- 
florescence covered with short soft stellate hairs. Leaves alternate, 
large, on petioles 4-8in. long; blade 4—9in. or more, obliquel 
rounded-ovate, cordate at the base, acuminate, irregularly doubly 
crenate-serrate, often obscurely 5-lobed, 5—-7-nerved from the base ; 
stipules persistent. Flowers very abundant, in erect terminal or 
axillary cymes, white, lin. diam. Sepals acuminate. Ovary 
hispid. Capsule lin. diam., globose, echinate with long rigid 
bristles.—A. Cunn. Precur. n. 601; Raoul, Choix de Plantes, 48; 
Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 31; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 32; Kirk, Forest 
Fl. t. 33; Students’ Fl. 74. Apeiba australis, A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. 
Zel. 301, t. 34. 
Norru Istanp : Not uncommon along the shores from the Three Kings and 
the North Cape to Tairua and Raglan, rare and local further south. East Cape 
