Buettneria.] TILIACE®. 279 
axillary or terminal umbellate cymes. Sepals 5, connate below. 
Petals 5, with concave claw and long strap-like 2-fid limb. Sta- 
mens connate in a membranous tubular column, with 5 staminodes 
opposite the sepals alternating with 5 fertile stamens opposite the 
petals ; anthers 2-lobed, lobes extrorse. Ovary sessile, 5-locular ; 
style entire or 5-fid; ovules 2 in each loculus. Fruit a globose, 
armed, septicidally 5 caine ed capsule, with persistent central 
eolumn. Seeds ascending, solitary in each chamber; albumen 
0; embryo with large, spirally convolute cotyledons. 
Leaves glabrous, ovate-acuminate, longer than broad; a herb, = ag 
prick] herba 
see ene eee retees 
“sig *poberlons or tomentose, not longer than broad :— 
length glabrescent, cordate-oblong, entire; 2 tree ; 
PR a Pe ae a Nee) eee ee rn 
vata BOY 22.0 6<. ikecivecite nee ee aspera, 
Leaves pilose on both surfaces, cordate at base, margin angled or 
lobed ; a climbing shrub ; capsule bristly .....:.:cseee eset pilosa, 
217. BuETTNerIA HERBACEA Roxb.; F.I. i. 619; F. B. I. i. 376. 
Behar; Chota Nagpur; Ori 
A herb. Beng. Kaitbead; ; aah Dikku sindur. 
218. Burrrneria aspERA Colebr.; F. B. I. 377 
Behar, Rajmahal Hills. 
tree, : 
219. Burrrnerra priosa Roxb. : F. 1. i. 618; F. B. I, i. 877. 
Chittagon 
A climbing shrub, especially in secondary jungle or on 
exposed ridges. 
Order XXV. TILIACEZ, 
Trees, shrubs, or rarely herbs; inner bark fibrous, wood usually 
Soft, juice often mucilaginous. Leaves alternate, simple, entire or 
toothed, rarely opposite; stipules free, often caducous. Flowers 
tegular, hermaphr. odite, or rarely 1-sexual, in usually corym 
+ OF panicled many-flowered cymes. annular or 0. 
Sepals. 5, rarely fewer, free or connate below, valvate in bud. 
Petals 5 as 
rarely few, usually inserted on the disk, filaments filiform, free or 
connate at base or united in 5-10 bundles; anthers 2-celled ; cells 
“Parallel, rarely. divari cate, and then sometimes su at 
their tips; dehiscence longitudinal extrorse, rarely apical porous, 
