■^v^ 
3G2 KEVISION OF THK NATURAL ORDEK HEDERACE.^. 
in herbaria were distributed by Wallich, and had, in almost all in- 
stances, male flowers only.' The female flowers are still nnknown, but 
Griffith gathered branches with fruit nearly ripe, and from them, 
by tlie courtesy of the late Sir W. Hooker, our Plate (n. 4]} has been 
made. In the printing of the plate a line of fig. 1, has not come out 
satisfactorily, making it appear as if calyx and corolla were merged in 
the manner of CacurbitacecB^ whilst in the specimens the calyx-limb can 
be traced distinctly all round ; the teeth of the calyx ought also to 
have been drawn less blunt. 
ToRiCELLiA, De Cand. Prodr. iv. p. 257; Endl. Gen. n. 4557- 
Char, emend. : Plores diclines (v. dioici?). Masc. calycis margo acute 
5-dentatus. Petida 5, obovato-oblonga, cucullata, cum lacinula inflexa, 
membranacea, persistentia, sestivatione induplicata. Stamina 5, fila- 
mentis brevissimis ; antherae oblongse, 2-loculareSj longitudinaliter 
dehiscentes ; pollinis granula globosa. Ovarium rudimentarium. 
Stylus 1, elongatus ; stigma capitatum. Foem. (v. hermaphrod. ?). 
Calyx tubo cum ovario connato, limbo supero, acute 4-3-dentato. 
Corolla nulla? Stamina nulla? Ovarium 4, v. abortu S-loculare, 
loculis 1-ovulatis, ovulis penduUs. Styli 4 v. 3, liberi, apice 2-fidi, 
stigmatosi. Drupa ovata 3-4-angnlata5 calycis limbo coronata, 3-4- 
locularis. Seraina solitaria^ pendula. — Suffrutex, ramis teretibus, foliis 
exstipulatis alternis simplicibus cordato-subrotundis v. subquinque- 
lobatis, palmatim S-nerviis, grosse et acute dentatis ; paiiiculis termi- 
nalibus co-floris, floribus albidis, masculis pedicellatis, foemineis sessi- 
libus. — Species ntiica : 
1. T. tUicefoUa, De Cand. Prodr. iv. p. 257. (Tab. Nostr. n. 41.) 
Samh(cns(?) tillcefolia , Wall. Cat. n. 4S3. Nepal (Wallich !), Bootaa 
(Griffith!), Sikhim (Hooker !). 
ExPLAK-ATTON OF Plate XLT., representing ToHcellla tilimfolia, from 
specimens of Wallich and GrifEth, Fig. 1. A male flower in bnd. 2. A 
male flower open. 3. A 3-merous ovary. 4. A tetraracrous fruit not quite 
ripe, 5 and 6. Cross and transverse sections of the same, all magnified. 
Decostea^ a Peruvian genus of Euiz and Pavon, has been referred by 
Bartling to Juglandm with a mark of doubt, and by Endlicher (Gen. 
and he finds it destitute of raphides, as is Ilipptms and the other Haloraginece 
he has examined. " This character is the more remarkable," he says, '* because 
the very nest Order, under which nippuris used to be placed, abounds in 
raphides." 
