Elfsocar2ms.] XXVITI. TILIACEJE. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 409 



E. JACKIANUS, Wall. Cat. 2679, not found in Wallich's Herbarium. It is said to be a 

 native of Sincapore, Jack. 



E. LONGIFOLIUS, Wall. Cat. 6682, from Ava, is indeterminable. It has very long, 

 strap-shaped leaves, pilose along the nerves. 



E. MONOCEROIDES, Wight. 111. i. p. 84. "Leaves glabrous elliptic. Racemes lax, few- 

 flowered. /Stamens indefinite, glabrous. Anthers pointed, beardless, shorter than the 

 style." 



MONOCERA FERRUGINEA, Jack Mai. Misc. ex Hook. Bot. Misc. ii. 86. " Leaves 

 oblong-ovate, acuminate, entire, under surface as also the peduncles and branchlets fer- 

 ruginous villous, racemes axillary shorter than the leaves. Leaves 6-7 in., entire, with 

 revolute margins; petiole 2-2^ in., downy. Drupe olive-shaped; nut rather smooth, 

 1-seeded by abortion. Seed oblong, pointed, albumen conform, embryo inverse, coty- 

 ledons flat, radicle superior and much shorter than the cotyledons." Jack states that 

 he did not see the flowers. 



NOTE ON ROYDSIA. 



At p. 180, it is stated that Roydsia parviflora, Griff, is a Tiliaceous- plant ; this is 

 an error. R. parviflora forms with E. floribunda, Plunch. Mss. (Cuming, Philippine 

 Island collection, n. 541), a subgenus of Eoydsia, or a new genus closely allied to it, 

 of which the fruit is unknown. These plants differ from Roydsia suaveolens and R. 

 obtusifolia in the linear-oblong buds, strap-shaped perianth-segments, which are imbri- 

 cate in two series, in the anthers being entire at the base, in the long stipes of the 

 ovary, subulate style with 3 minute terminal stigmas, and in the few ovules in each 

 cell. I would suggest the name of Alytostylis for this genus or subgenus, in allusion to 

 the undivided style. The Philippine Island R. floribunda, Planch. Mss., has flowers 

 nearly an inch in diameter, very many stamens, a very slender gynophore, which elon- 

 gates after flowering, and oblong leaves, 7-9 inches long. 



There can be no doubt but that Eoydsia should, as Griffith observes, form the type of 

 a Natural Order intermediate between Bixinece and Capparldece. Both Roydsia and 

 Alytostylis differ remarkably in habit from Tiliacece. 



3. Rojclsia (Alytostylis) parviflora, Griff. Notul. iv. 578; Ic. 

 Plant. Asiat. t. 607, f. 1 ; leaves elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate acuminate, 

 perianth-segments ligulate obtuse. 



BIRMA, in woods near the Serpentine Mines at Hookum, Griffith. 



A climbing shrub. Leaves 4-7 by lf-2 in., glabrous, rather membranous, pale yellow- 

 green, nerves almost horizontal ; petiole \-\ in., slender. Racemes tahort, very pubes- 

 cent, axillary, and forming small terminal panicles, rachis slender; pedicels shorter than 

 the buds ; bracts subulate, caducous. Flowers \ in. diam., inodorous, densely tomentose; 

 buds oblong. Perianth divided nearly to the base into 6, biseriate, imbricate, obtuse, 

 strap-shaped, densely pubescent segments, that are finally recurved, not much shorter 

 than the stamens. Gynophore short in flower, slender. Stamens about 20, not much 

 exceeding the perianth-segments ; anthers not 2-fid at the base. Ovary ovoid, densely 

 pubescent, contracted into a stipes as long as itself, 3-celled ; style subulate, stigmas 3, 

 minute ; ovules about 4 in each cell. 



Flowering specimens of R. obtusi folia, H. f. & T. (see p. 180), have been recently 

 received from Kurz, collected in Pegu. The flower-buds are very small, globose, 

 tomentose. /Sepals 6, short, obtuse, apparently valvate, pubescent. Stamens about 18, 

 exceeding the perianth. Ovary glabrous, on a tomentose gynophore ; styles 3, subulate, 

 united at the base. /. D. Hooker. 



ORDER XXIX. LINEJE. (By J. D. Hooker.) 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves usually alternate, simple, entire, rarely crenate- 

 serrate ; stipules lateral or intrapetiolar or 0. Inflorescence various. Flowers 

 regular, bisexual. Sepah 5, rarely 4, free or connate below, imbricate. 



