TILIACE2E. 199 



with soft, setose- ecliinate aculei (Guazumoides*), rarely septate be- 

 tween seeds. Seeds cc, horizontal or descending; embryo albuminous, 

 often incurved ; cotyledons foliaceous. — Herbs, underslirubs, or small 

 shrubs ; hairs simple or sometimes stellate ; leaves alternate, serrate ; 

 stipules small ; flowers 2 solitary or in scanty cymes, terminal, lateral* 

 subleaf-opposed or subaxillary, bracteate 3 (All warm regions of the 

 globe'). See p. 173. 



21. GrewiaL. 5 — Flowers usually 5- rarely 4-merous; sepals 5, often 

 coloured, valvate. Petals same in number, inserted with the sepals 

 and alternate to them, rarely very small or 0, sessile, and base in- 

 wardly foveolate or glandiferous, valvate or imbricate. Receptacle 

 produced in column more or less elongated beyond the insertion 

 of perianth, impressed to foveolate or glandular base of petals, 

 beyond glandular-dilated into disk bearing sexual-organs. Stamens go, 

 hypogynous, inserted with pistil ; filaments free or connate at 

 base ; anthers introrse, 2-locular, finally reflexed or versatile, lon- 

 gitudinally 2-rimose. Germen 4, 5-locular ; cells oppositipetalous 

 or more rarely 2, 3-locular ; style erect stigmatiferous at apex, 

 more or less dilated, subentire or minute 2— 5-lobed. Ovules in 

 each cell 2, ascending, or co, 2-seriate, inserted in internal angle ; 

 micropyle extrorse . . . erior. Fruit drupaceous, either entire 2, 

 3-locular (Microcos 6 ) or within 2, 3-pyrenous {Vincent ia 7 ), usually 



1 DC, loc. cit., 505 (sect. iii.). 5 Gen., n. 1026 (part.). — Adans., Fam. des 



2 Yellow, usually small, sometimes rather PI., ii. 382.— J., in Ann. Mus., iv. 82, t. 47-51 ; 

 large; cymes sometimes 1 -parous. Gen., 292, 453. — Gjsrtn., Fruct., i. 273, t. 57. 



3 Sect, (according to several authors) 4 cer- Lahk., Diet., iii. 42 ; Suppl., ii. 845 ; III., t. 

 lain: 1. Antichorus (L.f.)j— 2. Coreta P. Br. 467. — DC, Prodr., i. 75. — Spach, Suit, a 

 (inch, ex Endl. : a Fucoreta (Endl.), € Core- Buffon, iv. 9. — Endl., Gen., n. 5376. — B. H., 

 toides (DC), y Ceratocoreta (DC) ;— 3. Ganja Gen., 233, 985, n. 8. — H. Bn., in Payer Fam. 

 (DC); — 4. Guazumoid.es (DC); add.: 5. Wat., 276.— Garcke, in Bot. Zeit. (1864), 345. 

 Nettoa (H. Bn.) ;— 6. Corchoropsis (Sieb. & — Bocq., in Adansonia, vii. 46 (inch: Arsis 

 Zucc.). Lour., Chadara Forsk., Mallococca Forst., 



4 Spec, about 30, of which 8-10 are Oceanian. Microcos L., Omphacarjms Koeth., Siphomeria 

 H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec, v.335.— A. S.H., Fl. Boj., Vincentia Boj.). 



Bras.Mer.,\. 279. — Wight & Arn., Prodr., i. 6 L., Gen,, n. 662.— Arsis Lour., Fi. Co- 



72.— Wight, Icon., t. 311, 739, 1073. — Harv. chinch., 335 (Spec. 2, 3, Asiat. & Af'r. Trop. 



& Sond., Fl. Cap., i. 228. — Benth., Fl. Austral. Wight, III, t. 33; Icon., t. 84. — Hook., in 



i. 275.— Tr. & Pl., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 4, Bot. Misc., i. t. 60). 



xvii. 350.— Geiseb., FL Brit. W.-Ind., 97.— 7 Boj., in Hook. Bot. Misc., i. 293, t. 62.— 



A. Gray, Amer. Fxpl. Fxped., Bot., i. 195. — Vinticena Steud., NomencL, ed. 2 (Spec. Afr. 



Mast., in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., i. 261.— W alp., Trop. Or. Cont. & Ins., & Austral. Gjektk., loc. 



Rep., i. 354; ii. 798; v. 117, 118 (Corcho- cit ., t. 106, fig. 3.— Hart. & Sond., Fl. Cap., 



ropsis) ; Ann., ii. 169; iv. 330 ; vii. 447. i. ^25, n. 2). 



