TILIACEÆ. 181 
imbricated in two series, with a muricate capsular fruit; 4x/holoma 
(figs. 202-207), having a gamopetalous corolla in the form of a 
truncate cone, or of a slightly quadrangular pyramid, with an upper 
dentate orifice, and a smooth, capsular fruit, irregularly dehiscing at 
maturity. 
Aristotelia (figs. 208-210) forms a third subseries, characterized 
Aristotelia Maqui. 
CON Py) 
ONE 

Fie, 209. 
Flower (5). 

OEY 
PSS CERN 

Fie, 208. Fia. 210. 
Floriferous branch. Long. section of flower. 
by the form of the receptacle representing a porringer, lined by a 
glandular disk, at the bottom of which the gynæceum is inserted, 
while the perianth and androceum are perigynous (fig. 210). The 
number of ovules is certain, and the fruit is a berry. It consists 
of shrubs, the leaves being generally opposite. 
B. pe Jussieu had, in 1759, distinguished an order Zilia ; but 
this was a heterogeneous assembly, which besides the Limes, only 
1 In A, L, Juss, Gen., Ixviu. 
