XXVIII. TILIACE &. 
I. BROWNLOWIA SERIES. 
The Limes (Fr., Les Tilleuls) (figs. 176, 179-184), which have 
given their name to this family because they were the only living, 
representatives of it in our country at a certain epoch, have carpels 
united into a single plurilocular ovary. They are, on the contrary, 
Tilia sylvestris. 

Fie. 176. 
Floriferous branch (3). 
independent of each other in Brownlowia' and in some other neigh- 
bouring types, which are here consequently analogous to the Sfer- 
culiee among the Malvaceae. Moreover, Brownlowia (fig. 177) has 
regular hermaphrodite flowers, with a small convex receptacle. It 
supports a campanulate gamosepalous valvate calyx, whose upper 

1 Roxe., Pl. Coromand., iii. 61, t. 265.— —B. H., Gen., 231, n.1.—Bocg., in Adansonia, 
Spacu, Suit. à Buffon, iv. 43.—ENDL., Gen, vii. 59.—Humea RoxB., Fl. Ind., ii. 640 
n. 5374.—H. By., in Payer Fam. Nat., 274. (nec, Sm.). Masr, in FU. B. Ind., 381. 
