TILIACEM. 203 



more rarely 0. Stamens either twice as many as sepals, or oftener oc, 

 inserted at summit of dilated receptacle below germen, free. Germen 

 2-5-locular; cells more or less complete; style slender, apex stigma- 

 tiferous 2-5-fid or dentate. Ovules in each cell 2, descending ; 

 micropyle extrorse superior. Capsule 2-5-merous, externally echi- 

 nate, setose or plumose-ciliate, sometimes stipitate subclavate (ffelio- 

 carpus), indehiscent (Eutriuwfettd), sometimes subindehiscent or 

 loculicidal 2-valved {Heliocarpus), or separating into cocci at matu- 

 rity [Bartramicr). Seeds in each cell 1, or 2, sometimes separated 

 by false septa, descending ; embryo albuminous straight ; coty- 

 ledons plano-foliaceous. — Trees, shrubs or herbs ; hairs stellate ; 

 leaves entire serrate, or 3-5-lcbed ; flowers 3 in cymes, sometimes 

 simple, oftener in simple or ramified terminal aggregate racemes 

 {All hot regions*). Seep. 175. 



28. Vasivsea H. Bn. 5 — Flowers dioecious, usually 4-merous, 

 Sepals valvate, finally free. Petals 4, alternate, dilated at base 

 in a subplane, subglandular pit pilose at margin, imbricated. 

 Male flower oo-androus. Stamens inserted on receptacle, slightly 

 elevated beyond perianth ; filaments free ; anthers extrorse ; con- 

 nective suborbiculate (coloured) ; cells submarginal, longitudinally 

 rimose, not confluent. Stamens in female flower oc, sterile, or bearing 

 anthers 2-locular, more or less perfectly fertile, hypogynous. Grermen 

 (in male flower 0) subsessile subglobose (densely setose), 4-locular ; 

 style short, afterwards in 4 lobes, unequally lobed, sometimes sub- 

 petaloid, lobed ; ovules solitary in each cell, descending ; micropyle 

 extorse superior. Fruit ? — A tree ? leaves alternate petiolate ovate- 

 acute, crenate, cordate 3-nerved at base ; stipules small subulate 



1 Triumfetta G.ERTN., loc. cit.—Lappula & Sond., Fl. Cap., i. 227. — Hart., Thes. Cap., 

 DC, loc. cit. (sect. i.). t. 52.— Griseb., Fl. Brit. W.-Ind., 95.— A. 



2 G.ERTN., loc. cit. — Lamk., III., t. 400.- — Gray, Amer. Expl. Exped., Bot., i. 196. — 

 Bartramea DC, loc. cit. (sect. ii.). — ? Porpa Tuecz., in Bull. Mosc. (1858), i. 227 ; (1859), 

 Bli., Bijdr., 117 (ex Endl.). i. 260. — Seem., Fl. fit., 26. — Tb. & Pl., in 



3 Yellow, or subgolden, in species of Tropical Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 4, xvii. 351. — Benth., Fl. 

 America often large. Austral., i. 272. — Mast., in Oliv. Fl. Trop. 



4 Spec, ad 40. H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec, Afr., i. 254. — H. Bn., in Adansonia, x. 175. — 

 v. 341, t. 488. — A. S. H., Fl. Bras. Mer., i. Walp., Rep., i. 355; ii. 799; v. 118; Ann., 

 2S3. — Wight & Abn., Prodr., i. 73. — Wight, i. 110; ii. 799 ; v. 118; Ann., i. 110; ii. 169; 

 Icon., t. 320. — Guill. & Perb., Fl. Sen. Tent., iv. 330; vii. 444, 446 (Heliocarpus). 



i. t. 18, 19. — A. Rich., Fl. Cub., t. 22. — IIarv. s In Adansonia, x. 191. 



