Elaeocarpus.| TILIACEAE. 53 
Orper XV. TILIACEAE. 
Sepals 5 or 4, free, or united into a lobed ra valvate. Petals as 
sig eee or valvate, sometimes none. Stamens indefinite, or rarely 
many as petals, Fee ogynous, free, or néiiea ee several bundles. 
ree 2-celled. Ovary free, 2—10-celled, with several ovules or rarely 
a single ovule in each cell. eis entire, or divided at the ee into as 
many lobes as cells of the ovary, or sometimes the stigma is 
the ovary. Fruit dry or succulent, indehiscent or with a Toculicidal dehis- 
cence, or rarely separating into cocci. Seeds usually albuminous. Coty- 
ledons broad, the radicle next the hilum. — Trees, shrubs or rarely 
herbs. Leaves Nation entire, with pinnate or gure nerves. Stipules 
small and deciduous, rarely wanting, 
A considerable Order, chiefly tropical, with a few species in ae temperate regions of 
the northern hemisphere; represented in Polynesia by 6 gene 
1. ELAEOCARPUS, L. 
Sepals 4 or 5. Petals as many, toothed, lobed or fringed, induplicate- 
valvyate. Stamens mostly numerous, inserted on a glandular disk. An- 
thers with adnate cells opening at the top into transverse valves, often 
ciliate on the edges. Ovary 3—5-celled, with 2—6 ovules in each cell. 
tyle subulate. Fruit drupaceous, the putamen usually 3—5-celled. Seeds 
satay in each cell, pendulous. — Trees, with flowers in axillary racemes, 
A considerable genus, extending from the Mascarene Islands t through A iacgone Asia 
and Australia to New Zeal iain a Polynesia, with 6 species in the Viti 
i, : bifidus, Hook. dé Arn. in Bot. Beech. p. 110, tab. 24. — : glabrous 
tree, 30 ft. or more high, the twigs gummy at their ends. Leaves ovate 
or scot ay 4—7' X 2-3/2’, on petioles of 2’, acuminate, crenate 
or bluntly serrate, often almost entire, chartaceous. Stipules Janceolate, 
1” long, caducous. Ra s 1—2‘ long, with 5—8 flowers on pedicels 
of 1/2‘, Sepals SAE SORT 3—4” long, pubescent on the inner side. 
Petals as long, greenish, linear-oblong, shortly bifid or scarcely eee 
pubescent on both faces. Torus discoid, glandular. Stamen: —16, 
one third the length of the sepals, with short pubescent a 
the top and dehis- 
2—3 grooved-style. Ovules 3—6 in each cell. Drupe subglobose or olive- 
shaped, 12—15” long, the putamen thick woody, sending numerous stiff 
fibres into the — flesh of the mesocarp. Seeds generally solitary, 
arely two ; 
pense the pte radicle bent on large foliaceous cotyledons. — Gray, 
Bot. U.S. E. E. p. 205. — Beythea bifida, Endl. in Gen. Pl. — — Walp. Repert. I, 
365, and V, 121. 
