TILIACE^J. 



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late; 1 style simple; apex stigmatiferous, rimose, ramified-papillose. 

 Capsule subglobose, rigid echinate, loculicidal ; cells 1-co -spermous. 

 Seeds unequally obovoid ; testa crustaceous, sometimes rugose ; 

 embryo albuminous, nearly straight, curved or folded ; cotyledons 

 suborbiculate, subplane. — Trees or shrubs ; hairs stellate, soft ; leaves 

 petiolate, alternate, cordate, dentate, or lobed ; stipules lateral; flowers 2 

 in many 1 -parous cymes, inserted at the top of peduncle (terminal or 

 axillary to upper leaves) subumbellate (Tropical and Southern Africa 7 "). 

 See p. 172. 



18. Entelea R. Br. 4 — Flowers nearly of Sparmannia, 4- or more 

 rarely 5-merous ; sepals valvate ; apex acuminate. Stamens ce, all 

 fertile, free ; anthers versatile. Germen 4-8-locular; cells co-ovu- 

 late; style stigmatiferous, dilated, denticulate at apex. Capsule 

 globose, rigid echinate, above loculicidalhians 4-8-valved ; septa 

 solute at apex. Seeds oo, obovoid ; testa glabrous, coriaceous ; 

 embryo albuminous, almost straight or curved ; cotyledons cordate- 

 orbiculate. — A tree ; hairs stellate ; leaves alternate, dentate, sub- 

 3-lobed, base 5-7-nerved ; stipules lateral ; flowers 5 in cymiferous 

 racemes subumbellate, terminal and axillary to upper leaves, brac- 

 teate (New Zealand*). See p, 172. 



19. Honckenya W. 7 — Flowers 4, 5-merous ; receptacle scarcely 

 elongated beyond perianth. Sepals valvate, externally below the 

 apex produced in a point sometimes glandular. Petals same in 

 number, naked at base, imbricate. Stamens co, inserted round a 

 disk scarcely visible and scarcely higher than the perianth, free ; 

 exterior go antherless, filiform; interior few (7-10) fertile ; anthers 

 introrse, 2-locular ; cells linear, separate on both sides, longitudi- 

 nally rimose. Germen 4-8-locular; cells oo-ovulate; style simple, 



1 Coat of ovules double. 



2 White, sometimes beautiful, resembling 

 tbose of Dombeyece, stamens 2-coloured, pale 

 yellow and dusky purple. 



3 Spec. 3. Vent., Malmais., t. 78. — Mast., 

 in Oliv. Fl. Trop,. Afr., i. 260. — Haev. & 

 Sond., Fl. Cap., i. 223.— Bot. Mag., t. 516.— 

 Walp., Ann., i. 110 ; ii. 160 ; vii. 117. 



4 In Bot. Mag., t. 2180.— Spach, Suit a, 

 Buffon, iv. 4.— Endl., Gen., n. 5363.— B. PI., 

 Gen., 234., n. 15.— H. Bn., in Page.- Fam. 

 Nat., 2,lo. — BoCQ.. iu Adanaonia, vii. 37. 



5 White, ordinary. 



6 Spec. 1. E. arhorescens R. Be., loo. eit. — 

 A. Geat, in Amer. Fxpl. Exped., Bot., 195. — 

 Walp., Rep., v. 117. — Apeiba auslralis A. 

 Rich., Fl. N.-Zel., t. 34. 



7 In Ulster. Del., ii. 200, t. 4 ; Spec. Fl., ii. 

 325.— DC, Prodr., i. 506.— Endl., Gen., n. 

 5370.— B. H., Gen., 235, n. 17.— H. Bn., in 

 Pager Fam. Nat., 275. — Bocq., in Adansonia, 

 vii. 38. — Clappertonia Meissn., Gen., 35; 



Co mm., 28. — Endl., Gen., n. 5370- 



