126 DIPTEROCARPACK^ TILIACKJJ. 



icon. 1, t. 164. b Paulghat Mountains. — V. obtusa (Shorea obtusa. 

 Wall. Cat.) IVlartaban. — V. camphor if era, Wight. (Shorea camphori- 

 fera, Roxb. Dryobalanops Camphora, Gartn.) the famous Camphor- 

 tree'of Sumatra. — Dipterocarpus turbinatus, Gartn. b Chittagong. — 

 D. tuberculatus, Roxb. b Chittagong. — D. pilosus, Roxb. b Mascal 

 Islands. — Hopea Wightiana, Wall. ; Wight ill. 1, t. 37. b Peninsula 

 of India. — Lophira alata. Banks, b S. Leona. 



ORDER. LXXIII.— TILIACE^, Juss. Lindl. Nat. Syst. p. 99. 



THE LINDEN TRIBE. 



Trees, shrubs, seldom undershrubs or herbs, referred by Lindl. to 29 

 genera, from which must be deducted Vatica. As to species. DC. pr. and 

 Spreng. syst. enumerate 53 from S. America, Mexico, and the W. Indies ; 

 8 from tropical Africa ; 6 from Europe ; 5 from Japan ; 4 from N. Ame- 

 rica ; 4 from Arabia ; 2 from the Society Islands ; 2 from Mauritius ; 1 

 from China ; 1 from Madagascar, and 1 from New Zealand. To these 

 Wall. Cat. adds 1 from St. Helena, and 1 from Zanzebar. Six forms have 

 been discovered in S. Africa {Harvey) ; and 82 in the E. Indies, viz. 53 

 of Grewia ; 1 2 of Triumfetta ; 8 of Corchorus ; 3 of Columbia ; 1 of Di- 

 plophractum ; 1 of Neesia ; 1 of Porpa ; 1 of Espera ; (Spreng.) 1 of 

 Berrya ; and 1 of Brownlowia. With the exception of a few^ Nepalese 

 species, the order is in India confined to the tropics. 



General properties mucilaginous and emolUent ; special ones noticed 

 under the different species. 

 CoRCHORUs, L. (DC.pr. ],p. 504 ;— fT. and A. pr. I, p. 72.) 



1. fascicularis. Lam. {DC. pr. 1, p. 505 ; — W. and A. I. c. ; — Roxb.fl. 

 ind. 2, p. 582.) m^^ «Tt^ Junglee-pat. f^sf ^TtfsTSl Bil-nalita. © 

 Peninsula of India, Bengal, (Serampore,) extending up to the arid re- 

 gion on the western banks of the Jumna. Fl. small, yellow, R. and 

 C. S. ; fr. C. S. 



2. trilocularis, L. {DC pr. 1, p. 504 i—W. and A. pr. l,p.72;— 

 Roxb. fl. ind. 2, p. 582 ;— /. Grah. Cat. B. pi. p. 20.) Peninsula 

 of India, Prome, Bengal, (Serampore.) Fl. small, yellow, Aug. and 

 Sept. ; fr. Oct. and Nov. 



3. olitorius. L. {DC, pr. \, p. 504 ,— W. and A. pr. I, p. 73 ;—Roxb. 

 fl. ind. %p. 581 ;— J. Grah. Cat. B. pi. p. 20 ;— iJ. M. 55. t. 2810. 



C. deccmangularis, Roxb. o. c. p. 582.) 9f\^ Pat. © Both Peninsulas 

 of India, Bengal, (Serampore.) Fl. small yellow, R. S. ; fr. Oct. 

 and Nov. used in India, and in Egypt, as a pot-herb. Cultivated in 

 Bengal for the fibres of its bark, which, like those of C. capsularis, 

 L., arc employed in making a coarse kind of cloth {gunny, or rice bags,) 

 cordage for agricultural pur])08C.« and boats, and Bengalee paper. 



