Elaeocarpaceae; Tiliaceae 621 



pores, sometimes longitudinally dehiscent; ovary superior, 2- to many-locular, rarely 1-locular, the ovules usually many in 



each locule, the style simple; fruit a capsule or drupe; seeds often arillate. About 7 genera, with about 120 species, in tropical 



and warm-temperate regions, especially in the S. Hemisphere. 



1. ELAEOCARPUS L. Horuto-no-ki Zoku 



Trees with alternate, rarely opposite, entire or toothed leaves; flowers in axillary racemes, actinomorphic, bisexual or polyg- 

 amous; sepals usually valvate; petals laciniate or rarely entire, inserted on the base of the thickened receptacle, induplicate; 

 stamens many, rarely 8-12; anthers linear, opening by transverse valves; ovary 2- to 5-locular, the ovules 2 to many in each 



locule; drupe with one usually bony tuberculate stone; seeds pendulous, one in each locule, the embryo fleshy. About 60 



species, in s. Asia, Malaysia, Australia, the Pacific Isls., and Madagascar. 



lA. Petioles about half as long as the blade, 2.5-5 cm. long, thickened at apex; leaves narrowly elliptic or ovate-elliptic, rounded to obtuse 

 at base; petals appressed-pubescent on back, deeply 2- to 5-toothed 1 • E. japonicus 



IB. Petioles much shorter than the blade, 5-10 mm. long, not thickened at apex; leaves oblanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acute and slightly 

 decurrent on the petiole; petals glabrous on back, laciniate into filiform lobes 2. E. sylvestris var. ellipticits 



1. Elaeocarpus japonicus Sieb. & Zucc. E. \obanmochi (Thunb.) Hara. E. dccipicns Hemsl; Primus cllipiica 



Koidz.; E. dioiciisTurcz. Kob.\n-mochi. Evergreen tree Thunb.; E. ellipticus (Thunb.) Makino, non Smith; E. japoni- 



with rather thick, terete branches, loosely white-silky while cus Tuicz.; E. makjnoi ¥.3.nA\.\ E. zollingeri ¥..Y.od\ Ho- 



young; leaves long-petiolate, narrowly elliptic or ovate-elliptic, ruto-no-ki, Mogashi. Evergreen tree with fulvous appressed- 



6-10 cm. long, 3-5 cm. wide, abruptly acuminate vvidi an ob- pubescent young branches and inflorescence; leaves short-petio- 



tuse tip, rounded to obtuse at base, obtusely appressed-toothed, late, oblanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 6-12 cm. long, 2-3.5 cm. 



thinly white-silky on both sides while young, glaucescent and wide, acute widi an obtuse point or subobtuse, acute and 



loosely black-spotted beneath; racemes 4-6 cm. long, one-sided, slighdy decurrent to the petiole, shallowly obtuse-toothed, gla- 



rather many-flowered, the pedicels 4-6 mm. long; flowers brous; racemes 4-7 cm. long, rather many-flowered, short white 



about 5 mm. long; sepals and pedicels short white appressed- appressed-pubescent, die pedicels 3-8 mm. long; petals obovate- 



pubescent; petals cuneate-oblong, as long as the sepals, ap- cuneate, white, shorter than the appressed-pubescent sepals, 



pressed-pubescent on both sides, deeply and obtusely 2- to 5- deeply laciniate with filiform lobes, puberulous within at base; 



toothed; fruit subglobose, about 10 mm. long, grayish green. fruit narrowly ovoid, obtuse, 1.5-1.8 cm. long. July-Aug. 



May-June. Honshu (Kinki Distr. and westu'.), Shikoku, Honshu (Awa and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu. Ryukyus 



Kyushu. Ryukyus, Formosa, and China. and Formosa. The typical phase occurs in China and Indo- 



2. Elaeocarpus sylvestris (Lour.) Poir. var. ellipticus china. 



Fam. 132. TILIACEAE Shina-no-ki Ka Linden Family 



Trees or herbs, often with stellate or fasciculate hairs; leaves alternate, rarely opposite, stipulate; flowers bisexual, acdnomor- 

 phic; sepals 5, rarely 3 or 4, usually valvate; petals as many as the sepals, contorted, sometimes imbricate, rarely absent; 

 stamens 10 to many, the filaments free or connate at base, the anthers 4-locular; ovary 2- to 10-locuIar, with 1 to several 

 ovules in each locule; st)'le single, the stigma radiate; fruit a capsule or indehiscent nut or drupe, rarely a berry; seeds with 

 endosperm, die embryo straight. About 40 genera, with about 400 species, widely distributed in tropical and temperate re- 

 gions. 



lA. Herbs; inflorescence without a subtending leaflike bract. 



2A. Fruit globose and mdehiscent, or separated into fruitlets, spinulose; receptacle more or less elongate; stamens usually many. 



1 . Triiimjctla 

 2B. Fruit a 3-lobed, loculicidally dehiscent, elongate capsule, glabrous or stellate-pilose; receptacle not elongate; stamens 10-15. 



2. Corchoropsis 

 IB. Trees; inflorescence with a subtending leaflike bract adnate to the peduncle 3. Tilia 



1. TRIUMFETTA L. Rasen-s6 Zoku 



Stellate-pilose herbs or shrubs; leaves simple, toothed, 3- to 5-lobed or undivided; flowers yellow, few in dense axillary or 

 fasciculate cymes; sepals 5, free, with a spinose to hornlike protuberance at apex; petals 5, thickened with a gland or depression 

 at base, inserted on the base of the receptacle, sometimes absent; stamens many, free; ovary 2- to 5-locular, with 2 ovules in 

 each locule; style filiform, the stigma 2- to 5-toothed; fruit dry, small, subglobose, spinulose, indehiscent or separating into 



fruidets; seeds 1 or rarely 2 in each locule, with endosperm. About 40 species, in the tropics, abundant in tropical America, 



Australia, and S. Africa. 



1. Triumfetta japonica Makino. T. trichoclada sensu and narrowly ovate, acuminate, cordate to rounded at base, 



auct. Japon., non Link; T. annua sensu auct. Japon., non L. deltoid-toothed, loosely hispid on both sides especially on 



Rasen-so. Coarse erect annual, 60-120 cm. high with nerves, 3- to 5-nerved, the petioles 0.5-10 cm. long, the stipules 



spreading branches; leaves ovate to ellipuc, 5-10 cm. long, reflexed, linear, acuminate; cymes short, supra-axillary, few- 



3-10 cm. wide, often obsoletely 3-lobed, the upper ones shorter flowered; flowers yellow, about 5 mm. across; sepals 5, broadly 



