XXVII. TILIACE^. 



I. BEOWNLOWIA SEBIES. 



The Limes (Fr., Les Tilleuls) (figs. 17G, 179-184), which have 

 given their name to this family because they were the only living 

 representatives of it in our country at a certain epoch, have carpels 

 united into a single plurilocular ovary. They are, on the contrary, 



Tilia sylvestris. 



Fig. 176. 

 Floriferous branch [\). 



independent of each other in Brownloioia 1 and in some other neigh- 

 bouring types, which are here consequently analogous to the Sier- 

 culiece among the Malvacea. Moreover, Brownlowia (fig. 177) has 

 regular hermaphrodite flowers, with a small convex receptacle. It 

 supports a campanulate gamosepalous valvate calyx, whose upper 



1 Eoxb., PI. CoromancL, iii. 61, t. 265. — — B. H., Gen., 231, n. 1. — Bocq., in Adamonia. 

 Spach, Suit, a Buffon, iv. 43. — Endl., Gen., vii. 59. — Rumea Roxb., Fl. Ltd., ii. 640 

 n. 5374. — H. Bn., in Payer Fam. Nat., 274. (nee. Sm.). Mast., in Fl. B. Lid., 3S1. 



