192 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



wide subsessile subpetaloid lacerate; ovule in each cell solitary 

 descending. Capsule subglobose, with 2-valved dehiscence; each 

 valve (as in Berrya) 2-winged. Seeds rigid, hairy albuminous? — 

 Trees ; leaves and inflorescence of Brownlowia {Trop. America, conti- 

 nent and insular eastern Africa'). 



II. TILIE^E. 



8. Tilia T. — Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle shortly conical. 

 Sepals 5, valvate. Petals 5, alternate, base naked or squamose en- 

 larged, imbricated. Stamens oo, inserted with perianth, filaments 

 subfree or connate at base in 5 phalanges, oppositipetalous ; antners 

 extrorse; cells distinct, longitudinally rimose, either all fertile or 

 1 terminal in each interior bundle sterile, petaloid-elongate, 

 oppositipetalous, imbricated. Germen sessile ; cells 5, alternipeta- 

 lous ; style erect ; apex dilated stigmatiferous, 5-dentate ; teeth 

 connivent, divergent or patent ; ovules in each cell 2, ascending; 

 micropyle extrorse inferior. Fruit subglose nut-shaped, indehiscent. 

 Seeds 1, or few, ascending; albumen fleshy; embryo usually 

 curved ; cotyledons widely foliaceous sublobed corrugate, involute 

 at margin. — Trees ; hairs simple or stellate ; leaves alternate ; often 

 oblique, cordate, serrate at base ; stipules 2, lateral ; flowers terminal 

 on twigs or axillary, subracemose; terminal 1; others lateral, 

 bracteate ; inferior bract foliaceous, wing-shaped, rather large, adnate 

 to peduncle at middle {All the northern temp, regions of the Globe). 

 See p. 1G9. 



9. Schoutena Korth. 2 — Sepals 5, 3 connate at base, valvate, reti- 

 culate, persistent, accrescent after anthesis. Petals 5, shorter, linear, 

 naked at base or very shortly sublanceolate, caducous. Stamens 



co, 4 inserted in receptacle shortly under germen ; filaments filiform 



1 Spec. 4, of which are Amer. 2. Grislb., Gen., 237, n. 26. — ' Aclinophora Wall, Cat., 

 Cat. PI. Cub., 29. — Mast., in Oliv. Fl. Trop. n. 1163. 



Afr., i. 241. — H. Bn., in Adansonia, x. 180, 3 Stellate pubescent. 



181.— Walp., Ann., vii. 442. 4 Often from 15-20. 



2 In Ned. Kruidk. Arch., i. 313.— B. H., 



