TILTACEÆ. 203 
more rarely 0. Stamens either twice as many as sepals, or oftener o, 
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 (He/io- 
carpus), indehiscent (Hutriumfetta'), sometimes subindehiscent or 
loculicidal 2-valved (Heliocarpus), or separating into cocci at matu- 
rity (Bartramia). 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-lobed; flowers’ in cymes, sometimes 
simple, oftener in simple or ramified terminal aggregate racemes 
(All hot regions’). See p. 175. 
28. Vasivea H. By.’—Flowers dicecious, usually 4-merous. 
Sepals valvate, finally free. Petals 4, alternate, dilated at base 
in a subplane, subglandular pit pilose at margin, imbricated. 
Male flower m-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 «, sterile, or bearing 
anthers 2-locular, more or less perfectly fertile, hypogynous. Germen 
(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 GÆRIN. toc. 
DC., loc. cit. (sect. 1.). 
cit.—Lappula  & SonD., Fl. Cap., i. 227.—Hanv., Thes. Cap., 
t. 52.—GriseB., AT. Brit. W.-Ind., 95.—A. 
2 GÆRIN., loc. cit.—Lamx., Il,, t. 400.— 
Bartramea DC. loc. cit. (sect. ü.).—? Porpa 
Bu., Bijdr., 117 (ex Enpt.). 
3 Yellow, or subgolden, in species of Tropical 
America often large. 
4 Spec. ad 40. H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec., 
v. 341, t. 488.—A. S. H., Fl. Bras. Mer., i. 
283.—Wieut & ARN., Prodr., i. 73.—WIGHT, 
Icon., t. 320.—Guizx. & Perr., Fl. Sen. Tent., 
i. t. 18, 19.—A. Ricu., Fl, Cub., t. 22,— Harv. 
Gray, Amer. Expl. Exped., Bot., i, 196.— 
Turez., in Bull. Mosc. (1858), i. 227; (1859), 
i, 260.—SrEEem,, Fl. Vit., 26—Tr. & Pu, in 
Ann. Sc. Nat., sér. 4, xvii. 351.—BENTH., Fl. 
Austral., i. 272.—Mast., in Oliv. Fl. Trop. 
Afr., i. 254.—H. BN., in Adansonia, x. 175.— 
Watp., Rep., i. 355; ii. 799; v. 118; Ann., 
i. 110; ii. 799; v. 118; Ann., i. 110; ii, 169; 
iv. 830; vii. 444, 446 (Heliocarpus). 
5 In Adansonia, x. 191. 
