152 TILIACER. [ Buettneria. 
pasa ; calyx-lobes whitish ; petals much shorter, linear, purple 
wards the base, 2-cleft at the _ and produced below the 
poi in a long linear oe process ; ¢ es the size of a cherry, 
globular, densely covered with long wee rigid but flexible hispid 
bristles ; seeds small, ovate-oblong. 
Has.—Frequent in the tropical and mixed forests all over Burma and the 
siisscenk provinces. Fr. C. S.—sX1.—SS. = SiS., Metam., Ke. 
4. B. Andamanensis, Kz.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 377.—A scandent 
eaten shrub, the young shoots ev: and softly puberulous ; 
leaves cordate-ovate, on a glabrous or almost glabrous petiole 3-5 
in. long, shortly 3-5-lobed, with the lobes acitnreats or acute, rarely 
almost not lobed, irrecularly and coarsely toothed, membranous, 
while very young softly pubescent, full grown glabrous, and usually 
a little puberulous along the principal nerves ; flowers on slender 
pedicels, forming bi- to trichotomously bra: nehed, slender, minutely 
puberulous cymes in the axils of the Paces ; capsules globose, the 
size of a cherry, glabrous, — with unequally long, stiff, 
quite smooth, straight, sharp bristles. 
Has.—Frequent in the coast-forests 7 South Andaman ; also Upper Tenas- 
serim.—Fr, HS. 
TILIACEA. 
Ms regular, hermaphrodite or unisexual. Sepals 3-5, free 
united, valvate. Petals as many as sepals, rarely none, imbri- 
usually aris m a prolonged or dilated torus, free or rarely 
5-adelphous ; asia 2-celled.. Ovary free, 2- ee each cell 
with few often pendulous or numerous ovules often placed in 
two or more series. Fruit fleshy or dry, dehiscent or iitohieeents 
2-10 or by abortion fewer- or 1-celled. Seeds 1 or many, ascend- 
ing, pendulous or transv nits without arillus. Albumen fleshy, 
abundant, scarce, or rarely none.—Trees, shrubs, or herbs, with 
alternate, rarely opposite, aeiaphe or lobed leaves. Flowers usually 
cymose 
The j juice of all species is more or less mucilaginous. The fibre 
of many species is very strong and used for cordage, and Corchorus 
yields-the famous jute. Some trees yield superior timber. The 
stag of some Lgocarps are made into the so-called bramin- 
upes of some Grewias possess an agreeable acid taste 
and are feed ; in sherbets, &. About 50 species are known from 
Burma, of which the =< part reckon amongst woody plants. 
= ok Anthers opening by sl 
ee. => united in ian beibsdiaged 3-5-cleft calyx. 
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