TILIACEÆ. 195 
ments scarcely coalescing at centre ; cells œ-ovulate; style simple ; 
stigma obtuse. Fruit globose coriaceous uncinate-echinate (loculicidal 
3-valved?). Seeds o, nidulant in pulp; embryo. ..?—Small trees or 
shrubs ; leaves alternate glabrous, or glabrescent rigidly membranous 
denticulate, sub-3-plinerved at base; flowers' in umbelliferous pe- 
dunculate few-flowered lateral or terminal cymes ; fructiferous 
peduncles recurved” (Zrop. West Africa’). See p. 172. 
14. Luhea W.*-—Flowers calyculate; sepals 5, thick valvate. 
Petals 5, base naked or glandular-thickened, sometimes connate 
with base of androceum, imbricated or contorted. Stamens «, free 
or shortly connate at base in 5 phalanges, alternipetalous, or in 10; 
exterior ones antherless, generally filiform ; interior fertile; anthers 
extrorse, sometimes subsagittate, longitudinally rimose. Germen free ; 
cells 5, æ-ovulate, sometimes falsely septate within ; ovules 2-seriate, 
ascending, imbricate ; style erect, obscurely 5-lobed at apex. Capsule 
ligneous, loculicidal semi-5-valved. Seeds o, imbricate, ascending, 
upper part produced in a wing; embryo albuminous; cotyledons plano- 
foliaceous.—T ees or shrubs; hairs simple and stellate; leaves alternate, 
sometimes oblique at base, serrate, reticulate; stipules 2-nate, deci- 
duous ; flowers' solitary, or oftener in ramified cymiferous racemes ; 
bracts under flower 5-8, often longer than calyx, sometimes connate, 
deciduous, simulating an exterior calyx (Hot regions of N. and 8. 
See p. 172. 
America).” 
15? Greeffea Sevm.'—“ Flowers hermaphrodite; sepals 5, val- 
vate. Petals 5, naked at base, imbricate. Stamens , inserted on the 
receptacle produced in a cone beyond perianth, œ-seriate ; filaments 
free ; anthers oblong, 2-locular versatile rimose. Germen 2-locular ; 
style short, stigmatiferous at apex, dilated hollow, unequally denti- 
culate ; cells œ-ovulate. Fruit...?—A glabrous tree; leaves alternate, 

1  Mediocritibus, albis.” 
2 Spec. 2. Mast., in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., i. 
265. 4 
3 In Ges. Nat. Fr. Berl. N. Schr., iii. 409, 
t. 5.—DC., Prodr., i. 517.—ENDL., Gen., n. 
5365.—Spacu, Suit. à Buffon, iv. 39.—B. H., 
Gen., 235, n. 20.—Bocg., in Adansonia, vii. 
45.—Brotera VEtoz., Fl. Flum., vii. t. 163.— 
Alegria Mog. & Sess., Fl. Mex, Med, (ex DC., 
Prodr., i. 516). 
* White or pink, beautiful. 
5 Spec. ad 15. Mart. & Zucc., Nov. Gen. 
et Spec., 1. 98, t. 61-63.—A.S. H., Pl. Us. 
Bras., t.66; Fl. Bras. Mer., i. 289, t. 57, 58. 
—Pout., Pl. Bras., t. 186, 187.—BENTEH., in 
Journ. Linn. Soc., v. Suppl., 58.—Tr. & Pr, 
in Ann. Sc. Nat., sér. 4, xvii. 347.— War. 
Rep., i. 352; ii. 798; v. 116; Ann., vii. 448. 
5 Journ. of Bot. (1864), 71, t.6; Fl. Vit., 
27, t. 6.— Bocg., in Adansonia, vii. 52.—B. H., 
Gen., 986, n. 22 a. 
