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Chapter XI. 



Order XI. — TILIACE.E (including Elonocarpece). The Lime Tree Family, 



Charactek of the Ordee. — Trees or slirubs (rarely 

 herbs), with often tough bark, alternate or o))posite, often 

 stipulate leaves. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite, rarely 

 uni-sexual. Sepals 4 or 5, free or connate, usually valvate. 

 Petals 4 or 5, free, entire, lobed, or cut. Torus generally 

 conspicuous. Stamens usually numerous, free, inserted on 

 the torus; filanuMits filiform; anthers 2-celled, often opening 



by terminal pores; ovary sessile on the torus, 2 Ill-celled ; 

 style simple, usually divided at the apex into as many divisions 

 as cells ; ovules few or many, attached to the axis of the cells. 

 Fruit very variable. Seeds generally with fleshy albumen, and 

 broad, Hat, thin cotyledons. — Uandhuuk of Sew Zealand Flora, 



p. :j2. 



Description of the Order. — 



VERY large tropical and sulj-tropical order of plants, to w liicli the English 

 Lime Tree (Tllla) belongs, together with the Indian .Tute {Corchonts), valued 

 for its fibre. The species are numerous, especially within tlie tropics, and 

 some are natives of the temperate regions both of the Northern and Soutliern 

 Hemispheres, but none extend into the Arctic Circle, or ascend to great 

 ■ '= mountain elevations. The genera, divided into about forty in number, have 



been distributed into two su])-orders, or independent orders, Tiliece and Elecocorpecv, 

 upon characters which have failed in so many instances, that they have been re-arranged 

 into seven tribes, viz. : — Broicnlowiea;, Greioiece, TiliecB, Apeibea', Prockle(S, Sloaniece, 

 and Elceocarpece. The Common Lime, or Linden, T. eiiropfca, the type ol' the order, is 

 frequently planted as an ornamental tree. It often attains a height of from sixty to 

 a hundred and twenty feet. It is met with generally throughout Europe, except in 

 the extreme North. One variety of it, the small-leaved Lime, is indigenous to Great 

 Britain ; but the large-leaved variety, which is commonly planted in New Zealand, is a 

 native of the south of Europe. Various parts of the tree are applied to useful purposes. 



