186 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
Chilian ; but the three species of the section Dubouzetia grow in New 
Caledonia. In this way this genus is nearly like 4ristotelia, represented 
by one species in Chili, a second in Australia, and by two others in New 
Zealand. Vallea is confined to the western zone of South America, 
and Antholoma to New Caledonia. On the contrary, Zrichospermum, 
comprising 7! mexicanum,’ should be represented by an American 
species, a Javanese, and a third, Diclidocarpus, observed in the Fiji 
isles. Apeiba, Mollia, Muntingia, Luhea, are all American, while 
Christiana, Honckenya, Sparmannia, Glyphea, Duboscia, Desplatsia, 
Ancistrocarpus, have only been observed in Africa ; Lrinocarpus, 
Columbia, Diplodiscus, Berrya, Brownlowia, Pentace, Pityranthe, Schou- 
tenia, in tropical Asia only, and in the neighbouring oceanic regions. 
Græffea is limited to the islands of Fiji; Hntelea to New Zealand. 
The Limes are met with in both Worlds, but only in the temperate 
regions of the northern hemisphere. Grewia is spread all over the 
warm regions of the Old World, but is not met with in America. 
The two most widely spread genera are without doubt Corchorus and 
Triumfetta ; for there is scarcely a warm region in the world where 
they do not grow more or less abundantly. 
Their uses,? not very numerous, also indicate a great analogy to 
Malvaceae. Vike them the Ziliacee@ are also remarkable for the pro- 
duction of mucilage, for the textile qualities of their liber fibres, and 
often by a certain degree of astringency due to the development of 
tannin or substances analogous to it. The mucilaginous decoctions 
obtained from the internal bark, and occasionally from the leaves and 
flowers of the Lime,‘ are used as emollients and pectorals.  7%/ia syl- 
vestris (figs. 176, 179-184), and with it 7° grandiflora Kur., and parvi- 
flora Eur., in Western Europe; in Hungary, 7. argentia, Dxsr.; in 
America, 7. americana L., and the other species of the same country 
are most frequently used in the same way.‘ At the Cape the Spar- 
mannia africana L. (figs. 186-190) ; inthe Antilles, M/untingia, Cala- 

1 Grewia mexicana DC., Prodr., i. 510, n. 
18.— Belotia grewiæfolia A. RicH., Fl. Cub., i. 
207, t. 21.—Adenodiscus mexicanus TURCZ., in 
740.—Rév., in Fl, Méd. of the 19th Century, 
iii, 408. 
4 There are also quoted the species and 
Bull. Mose. (1846), ii. 504. 
2 Enpu., Enchirid., 524—Linpu., Fl. Med., 
147; Veg. Kingd., 372.—ROSENTH., Syn. Pl. 
Diaphor., 728, 1148, 
3 Guis., Drog. Simpl., éd. 6, iii, 634, fig. 
varieties named 2, vulgaris Hayn., ulmifolia 
Scor., heterophylla VENT, TY. canadensis 
Micux., caroliniana Mitt., mexicana SCHLTL. 
syn. (?) of Z. americana, (See ROSENTH., op. cit., 
732.—Berra, & Soum., Off. Gew., iii. t. 18 b.). 
