TILIACEZ. 207 
high septicidal. Seeds in cells few or 1, descending, ovoid or 
obovoid ; chalaza sometimes produced in aril arched or spirally 
twisted and fleshy (Dudouzetia') ; embryo albuminous straight; cotyle- 
dons flat or rather wide. —Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate or oppo- 
site, often serrate; stipules small, caducous or 0; flowers’ axillary, 
solitary or 2, 3-nate* (Chili, N. Caledonia’). See p. 180. 
35. Sloanea L.’—Flowers usually hermaphrodite ; receptacle 
shortly convex, sometimes cylindrical, short (4/ondea’), oftener dilated 
beyond perianth in aconvex hemispherical or depressed conical thick 
glandular and foveolate disk. Sepals 3-5, oftener 4, valvate, some- 
times coalescing in truncate calyx, rarely slightly imbricated, or 4, 
2-seriate much imbricated (Aechinocarpus’). Petals 0, or rarely 1-4, 
sepaloid, smaller than calyx, subentire or dentate, sometimes (Zc4i- 
nocarpus) larger, unequally incised imbricate (Lchinocarpus). Stamens 
a, hypogynous ; filaments short, foveolate œ-seriate inserted on 
disk (where present) o-seriate ; anthers elongated or more 
rarely shortened, apiculate or muticous; cells lateral or sub- 
introrse, more or less high rimose from apex. Germen free ; 
cells 3-5, oftener 4, complete or more or less incomplete,’ ovules 
o ; style subulate, stigmatiferous at apex, simple or more or less 
high, 4—5-fid (Ad/ania’). Capsule thick-coriaceous, or oftener woody, 
densely echinate or more rarely velvety or setose without (Dasy- 
carpus,” usually 4-locular, 4-valved, sometimes 1-3-valved, or sub- 

1 Pancn., ex Br. & Gr, in Bull, Soe. Bot. 
de Fr., viii. 199; in Ann. Sc. Nat., sér. 5, i. 
357; in Nouv. Arch. Mus., iv. 34, t. 13.— 
B. H., Gen., 240, 987, n. 39.—Bocg., in Adan- 
sonia, vii. 54. 
? Large, beautiful, red or golden, sometimes 
white. 
3 Scarcely to be distinguish from Ælæocarpus, 
except by capsule ? 
4 Spee. ad 5. Hoox., in Bot. Mise., iii. 156, 
t. 100.—C. Gay, Fl. Chil., i. 337 (Tricuspid- 
aria), 340.—TvrRcz., in Bull. Mose. (1863), i. 
576.—WaLpP., Ann., vii. 458. 
5 Gen., n. 655.—Apans., Fam. des P1., ii. 
382.—J. Gen., 291.—Potr., Dict., vi. 20; 
Suppl., iv. 635.— Lamr., Jil., t. 469.— DC., 
Prodr., i, 515.—ENDL., Gen., n. 5363.—BENTH., 
in Journ. Linn, Soc., v. Suppl, 62.—B. H., 
Gen., 238, 987, n. 34.—Boca., in Adansonia, 
vii. 48.— ? Foveolaria Muissn., Gen., 36 (28). 
6 L. C. Ricw., in Act. Soc. Hist. Nat. Par. 
100. 

7 Bu., Bijdr., 56.—ENDL., Gen., n. 5062.— 
Ctos., in Ann, Sc. Nat. sér. 4, viii. 266.— 
Bentu., in Journ. Linn. Soc., v. Suppl., 71.— 
B. H., Gen., 239, 987, n. 35.—Boca., in Adan- 
sonia, vii, 49.—F. MuELz., Fragm., iv. 91; v. 
28 (Sloanea). 
8 Whence Forgetina (Bocg., in Adansonia; 
vii. 49), a genus of Guinea, sought by us in vain 
in the Museum of Paris and distinct on account of 
its parietal placenta, but it seems not to have 
been preserved (ex B. H., Gen., 987). 
9 AuBL,, Guian., 585, t. 234.—Lamr., ZU., 
t. 479.—DC., Prodr., i. 516.—ENDL., Gen., n. 
4361.—Trichocarpus SCHREB., Gen., n. 923.— 
Dasynema Scwotr (ex Sprene., Syst. Cur. 
Post., 408).—Envt., G'en., n. 5362.—BocQ,, in 
Adansonia, vii. 49.— Adenobasium PRESL., 
Sym. Bot., 39, t. 27. — ? Myriocheta DC., 
Prodr., i. 515. 
se, Œnsr., in Vid. Medd. Kiobenh. (1856), 
27. 
