186 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Chilian ; but the three species of the section Bubouzetia grow in New 

 Caledonia. In this way this genus is nearly like Aristotelia, represented 

 by one species in Chili, a second in Australia, and by two others in New 

 Zealand. Vallea is confined to the western zone of South America, 

 and Antholoma to New Caledonia. On the contrary, Trichospermum, 

 comprising T. meancanum, 1 should be represented by an American 

 species, a Javanese, and a third, Diclidocarpus, observed in the Fiji 

 isles. Apeiba, Jlollia, Muntingia, Luhea, are all American, while 

 Christiana, Uonehenya, Sparmannia, Gli/pJtcea, Duboscia, Desplatsia, 

 Ancistrocarpus, have only been observed in Africa ; Erinocarpus, 

 Columbia, Diplodiscus, Berrya, Brovmhtma, Pent ace, Pityranthe, Schou- 

 tenia, in tropical Asia only, and in the neighbouring oceanic regions. 

 Graffea is limited to the islands of Fiji ; Entelea to New Zealand. 

 The Limes are met with in both Worlds, but only in the temperate 

 regions of the northern hemisphere. Grewia is spread all over the 

 warm regions of the Old World, but is not met with in America. 

 The two most widely spread genera are without doubt Cor chorus and 

 Triumfetta ; for there is scarcely a warm region in the world where 

 they do not grow more or less abundantly. 



Their uses, 2 not very numerous, also indicate a great analogy to 

 Malvacece. Like them the Tlliacece are also remarkable for the pro- 

 duction of mucilage, for the textile qualities of their liber fibres, and 

 often by a certain degree of astringency due to the development of 

 tannin or substances analogous to it. The mucilaginous decoctions 

 obtained from the internal bark, and occasionally from the leaves and 

 flowers of the Lime, 3 are used as emollients and pectorals. TUia syU 

 vestris (figs. 176, 179-184), and with it T. grandiflora Ehr., andparci- 

 flora Ehr., in Western Europe; in Hungary, T. argentia, Desf. ; in 

 America, T. americana L., and the other species of the same country 

 are most frequently used in the same way. 4 At the Cape the Spar- 

 mannia africana L. (figs. 180-190); in the Antilles, Muntingia, Cala- 



1 Grewia mexicana DC, Prodr., i. 510, n. 740. — R£v., in Fl. Med. of the ISth Century, 

 18. — Belotia grew'uefolia A. Rich., Fl. Cub., i. iii. 408. 



207, t. 21. — Adenodiseus mexicanus Tuecz., in 4 There are also quoted the species and 



Bull. Mosc. (1846), ii. 504. varieties named T. vulgaris Hatn., ulmifolia 



2 Endl., Enchirid., 52 4. — Lindl., Fl. Med., Scop., heterophylla Vest., T. canadensis 

 147; Veg. Kingd., 372.— Rosenth., Syn. PI. MlOHX., caroliniana Mill., mexicana Schltl. 

 Diaphor., 728, 1148. syn. (?) of T. americana. (See Rosenth., op. cit., 



3 Guib., Drog. Simpl., ed. 6, iii. 634, fig. 732.— Beeg. & Schm., Off. Gew., iii. t. 18 b.). 



