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PART IV. CLASSIFICATION. 



ovary usually 5-locular, each loculus containing two ovules ; but 

 the fruit is generally only one-seeded. Mostly trees or shrubs : 

 leaves alternate, stipulate. 



The only indigenous genus is Tilia, the Lime-tree. It has oblique leaves 

 with deciduous stipules; the annual shoots have not a terminal bud. The 

 inflorescence is cymose, few-flowered : the peduncle is adnate to the leafy 

 bracteole ; this is brought about in the following manner : in the axil of the 

 leaves there is usually a bud, together with an inflorescence (Fig. 351) : 

 the large bracteole ( 7t) and a bud-scale, 

 which is opposite to it, are the first 

 two leaves of the axillary shoot which 

 is terminated by the infloresence, the 

 peduncle of which is adnate to the large 

 bracteole for some distance : the bud 

 is a winter-bud developed in the axil of 

 the above-mentioned bud-scale. The 

 inflorescence itself terminates in a 

 flower ; other flowers are borne in the 

 axil of two upper bracteoles which 

 soon fall off, and other flowers again 

 may be developed in the axils of 

 their bracteoles, and so on. T. platy- 

 phyllos, the large-leafed Lime, has a 

 few-flowered inflorescence, and leaves 

 which are bright green and downy 

 on the under surface: T. cordata 

 has an inflorescence which consists of 

 a large number of flowers, and has 

 small leaves which are bluish-green 

 and pubescent with red hairs on the 

 under surface. T. vulyaris is the com- 

 mon Lime. Corchorus, in the East 

 Indies, yields Jute, which consists of 

 the bast-fibres. 



Order 2. MALVACEAE. Calyx 

 usually gamosepalous, frequently 

 invested by an epicalyx (p. 443) ; 

 the corolla is adnate at the base 

 to the androecium : the typically 

 obdiplostemonous androesium is a 

 long tube (Fig. 352 A} consisting 

 of five monadelphous usually branched stamens which are opposite 

 to the petals, each branch bearing a bilocular anther ; there is 

 sometimes an inner series of staminodes opposite to the sepals : 

 carpels 5- oo ; styles many, connate ; the gynseseum is sometimes 



Fio. 351. Inflorescence of the Lime : 

 n branch ; It petiole subtending an in- 

 florescence and a bud. Attached to the 

 peduncle is the large bracteole (h) : fe 

 calyx ; c corolla ; s stamens ; / ovary ; 

 fc?i flower-bud (nat. tize). 



