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TILIACE.E. 



[HVPOGYXOUS EXOGENS. 



They have all a mucilaginous, wholesome juice. The leaves of Corchorus ohtorius 

 are used in Egypt as a pot-herb. The berries of some of them are succulent and eat- 

 able The snecies are most remarkable for the toughness of the fibres ol their inner 

 bark, which are used for various economical purposes. Fishing lines and nets rice 

 bags or gnnny, and a coarse kind of linen called tat, are made in India of Corchorus 

 caWaris; and the Russian mats of commerce are manufactured from the Tilia The 

 bark of Luhea grandiflora is used in Brazil for tanning leather. The wood of Luhea 

 divaricate, which is white and light, but very close grained, makes good musket-stocks, 

 and wooden soles for shoes ; the Brazilians call all such Acoita cavallos, because the 

 sticks they use for driving their cattle are obtained from them. 1 he flowers of Tiha, 

 separated from the bracts, are used in infusion, according to Host, with much success 

 in verti.ro and spasms ; they promote perspiration and alleviate coughs ; but it the 

 bracts and fruits are mixed with the flowers, the infusion then becomes astringent, and 

 confines the bowels. Some species of Grewia, as G. sapida asiatica, &c bear p feasant 

 add berries, much used in the manufacture of sherbet. The wood of Grewia elasnca, 

 called Dhamnoo, affords timber highly valued for its strength and elasticity, and there- 

 fore much used or bows, the shafts of carriages, &c The excellent ihght timber called 

 Trincoraalee wood, employed in the construction of the Massoola boats of Madras, is 

 furnXed by Berr ya Ammonilla. The berries of Ar.stoteha Maqui are eatable, and 

 made into wine ; the tough bark makes the strings, and the wood the sides of musical 



^Thrieaves of Vallea cordifolia are used for dyeing yellow The furrowed, sculptured, 

 bony fruit of the Ekeocarps, being freed from its pulp, forms handsome necklaces, 

 ich are not uncommonly set in gold, and sold in the shops The name Julpa, or 

 O ve, is applied to the fruit of some species of Ekeocarp, winch is eaten ; while that 

 of others £ dried and used in the curries of the natives of India, and is also pickled 

 Roxburgh did not succeed in extracting any oil from the fruit. Dr. Horsfield says that 

 the bark of one of the Java Ekeocarps is bitter and used as an anthelmintic. 



The mucilaginous, and at the same time astringent, properties of the leaves and fruit 

 of certaTn Trlumfettas, called Carapixo da Calcada in Brazil, which grow everywhere 

 Si that country, especially on the road-side and in the vicinity of dwellings, render 

 them serviceable in injections for inveterate gonorrhoeas. 



I. TILE^E.— Corolla 0, 

 or the petals entire. An- 

 thers opening longitu- 

 dinally. 



BlOANIDJB. 



JIasseltia, 11. B. K. 

 Ablania, Aubl. 



Trichocarpus, Schreb. 

 Dasvnema, Schott. 



Adenobasium, Presl. 



Myriochceta, DC. 



Foveolaria, DC. 

 Sloanea, Linn. 



Sloana, Plum. 



Gynostoma, DC. 



Oxyandra, DC. 



GREWrD.E. 



Vantanea, Aubl. 



Lemniscia, Schreb. 

 Apeiba, Aubl. 



Aubhtia, Schreb. 

 Luhea, Willi. 



GEN 

 Bretera, Flor. Flura. 

 Alhyria, Mo?, et Sess. 

 Mollia, Mart et Zucc 



Schlechtmdalia,BpTDg. 

 lleliocarpus, Linn. 



Montia, Houst. 

 Entelea, R. Br. 

 Sparmannia, Tlinnb. 

 Clappertonia,Jfetsn. 



Honkenya, Willd. 

 Corchoropsis,S('f6. et Zuc 

 Corchorus, Linn. 



Antickorus, Linn. f. 



Caricteria, Scop. 



Coreta, P. Br. 



Mcerlensia, DC. 



Gcmja, Rnmph. 

 Triumfetta, Plum. 



Lappula, DC. 



Juirlramia, Giirtn. 



f Porpa, Blum. 

 Tilia, Linn. 



Lindmra, Reichenb. 

 Brovrnlowia, lioxb. 



ERA. 



Humea, Roxb. 

 Christiana, DC. 

 Grewia, Jitss. 

 N'ehemm, Endl. 



Mallococca, Forst. 



Chadara, Forsk. 



SiphomerU, Boj. 



Microcos, Linn. 



Arsis, Lour. 



Damine, Endl. 



Vincenlia. Boj. 

 Belotia, A. Rich. 

 Diplophractura , Dcsf. 

 Columbia, Per*. 



Colona, Cav. 

 Berrya. Ro.>l>- 



Espera, Willd. 

 Muntingia, Linn. 



Calabura, Plukn. 

 Trilix, Linn. 



Jacquinia, Mut. 

 Bancroft!*, Mac/ad. 

 Aristotelia, Hertt, 



II. ELiEOCARPEiE.— 

 Petals lacerated. An- 

 thers opening by a 

 transverse valve at the 

 apex. 



Ela?ocarpus, Linn. 



f Adenodus, Lour. 



Lochneria, Scop. 



Ganitrus, Gartn. 



? Craspedum, Lour. 

 Monocera, Jack. 



Dieeras, Endl. 



JHcera, Forst. 

 Beythea, Endl. 

 Friesia, DC. 

 Acronodia, Blum. 



Acrozus, Spreng . 

 Vallea, Mut. 

 Tricuspidaria, li:.cl Put: 



Tricurpit, Pets. 

 Crinodendron, Mulin. 



Ndmbebs. Gen. 35. Sp. 350. 



Position.— Malvaceae. — Tiuace^e. — 

 Trcmandraceos. 



ADDITIONAL GENERA, 



GHyphaea, Hook.f near Grewia 

 Omphacarpus, Krtlds. 

 Anstrutheria, Gardner, -near Friesia 



The textile material called Jute, from which gunny (or rice) bags are manufac- 

 tured, is the fibre of Corchorus capsulars. 



