Order 22. Tiliacecs. 37 



OKDER 22. TILIACE^. Lindens. 



Leaves generally alternate ; flowers regular, sepals 3 to 5, 

 valvate, petals 3 to 5, stamens numerous, usually from a disk, 

 ovary superior, fruit generally 2 to 10-celled. 



Some of the genera in this order are very like mallows, but easily 

 distinguished by the free stamens and 2-celled anthers. Many species 

 have strong fibres. The flowers of all that are found in W. India are 

 yellow or white, and though generally speaking not attractive, some 

 of them remind one of " the lime tree's pale and fragrant flowers." 

 Cowper. 



1. GREWIA. Trees or shrubs with entire strongly nerved 

 leaves, sepals generally larger than the petals ; fruit a drupe, 

 not bristly, often lobed. 



2. ERINOCARPUS. Petals clawed, fruit covered with bristles ; 

 otherwise like the last. 



3. TRIUMFETTA. Herbs or undershrubs, generally hairy ; 

 flowers crowded, stigma 5-toothed, capsule spiny or bristly. 



4. CORCHORUS. Strong fibrous herbs or undershrubs ; leaves 

 strongly serrated, the lowest serratures often produced into 

 long points ; flowers few together, small, yellow, style short, 

 stigma cup-shaped. 



5. EL^OCARPUS. Trees. Stamens (in the species here given) 

 rising from a raised torus, fruit a drupe. 



1. GREWIA. 



1 . G. tilicefolia. A tree with roundish leaves, cordate and 

 oblique at the base, bluntly toothed, 5-nerved, stipules leafy, 

 auricled on one side, peduncles 3 or 4 together, 3 or 4 flowered, 

 sepals twice as long as the orange-coloured petals, drupes 2 to 4- 

 lobed, blackish, smooth. Daman, Karkani. 



Konkan. Common in Bombay (D.). 



2. G. asiatica. Small tree, much like the last, but stipules 

 short, lanceolate, petals yellow, drupe round, hairy stalked. 

 Fulsi. 



Much cultivated in most parts of India, and very variable (ff.). 

 Wild in the Poona collectorate (D.). 



3. G. polygama. A straggling shrub or small tree, leaves 

 lanceolate, serrate, rather rough, 3-nerved ; flowers polygamous, 

 rather large and handsome, sepals covered with yellowish 

 down, much larger than the white petals, drupe 4-lobed, or 

 2 together 2-lobed. Gaoli. 



Konkan. Common on the Ghauts D.. 



