7i XI. TILIACEAE. [Entelea. 



Bracteoles linear. Calyx-lohes lanceolate, hispid or bristly. Capsule acumi- 

 nate, densely hispid or strigose. Seeds glabrous. — DC, Prod. i. 449 ; Bot. 

 Reg. t. 381;'Benth., Fl. Austr. i. 213; T. Kirk, Trans. N.Z.I, iii. (1870) 163. 

 H. Beckleri, P. Muell., Fragm. ii. 117' H. Taijlori, Buch. in Trans. N.Z.I, ii. 

 (1869J 173. 



NORTH Island: North Cape to Maunganui Bluff and Bay of Islands; local. Also in Aus- 

 ralia, South Africa, Mauritius, Madagascar, and South Pacifio islands. 



Oedee xi.-TILIACEAE. 



Sepals 5, rarely 4 or 3, free or connate at the base, usually valvate. 

 Petals as many as the sepals, lobed or cut, inserted round the base of the torus, 

 rarely 0. Stamens oo, free or the filaments coherent at the base. Anthers 

 2-celled, opening by slits or by apical pores. Ovary sessile on the torus, free, 

 2-10-celled ; style entire or the number of stigmatic lobes equalling the num- 

 ber of cells ; ovules 1 or 2 or more attached to the axis of each cell, erect, 

 pendulous or horizontal. Fruit a capsule, drupe, or berry. Seeds usually with 

 fleshy endosperm. Radicle next the liilum. Trees or shrubs, rarely herbs, 

 with alternate or rarely opposite entire leaves. Stipules free or rarely 0. 

 Flowers hermaphrodite or unisexual, axillary or terminal. 



A large order, chiefly distributed through tropical or subtropical countries. Tilia extends into 

 temperate' and cold regions in the Northern Hemisphere, and Aristotelia has a similar but more 

 restricted distribution in the Southern Hemisphere. IBntelea is exiiemio in New Zealand. Genera, 

 40. Species, 340. 



1. Entelea. Leaves alternate. Fruit a spinous capsule. 



2. Aristotelia. Leaves opposite. Fruit a berry. 



3. Elaeooarpus. Leaves alternate. Fruit a drupe. 



1. ENTELEA, E. Br. 



Sepals 4' or 5, free. Petals 4 or 5, undulate. Stamens oo, inserted on a 

 low torus; anthers versatile. Ovary 4-6-celled, many-ovuled ; style simple, 

 stigma terminal. Capsule globose, 4— 6-valved, echinate, loculicidal. Seeds oo. 

 A shrub or small tree, with alternate palmatinerved cordate toothed leaves and 

 umbellate cymes of large white flowers. 



A monotypic genus, restricted to the northern part of the colony. 



Btsm. Prom the Greek, signifying pcr/cci, referring to the stamens as contrasted with those 

 of Sparmanniae, many of which are abortive. 



1. E. arborescens, R. Br. in Bot. Mag. t. 2480. A shrub or small tree, 

 sometimes 25ft. high. Young branchlets, peduncles, and leaves beneath, &c., 

 clothed with white stellate down. Leaves broadly cordate, 4in.— 9in. lono- or 

 more, acuminate, oblique, sometimes lobed, doubly or trebly ci-enate or serrate. 

 Stipules linear, persistent. Flowers in ei-ect a.xillary or terminal umbellate 

 cymes. Capsules 4-7-celled, echinate ; bristles stout, lin. long or more, mixed 

 with hairs at the base. Seeds numerous in two rows ; endosperm oilv. Ra- 

 dicle very short. — A. Cunn., Precurs. n. 601 ; Hook, f., Fl. N.Z. i. 33 

 Handbk. 32 ; T. Kirk, Forest Fl. N.Z. t. 33. Apeiha australin, A. Rich., FL 

 N.Z. t. 34. Corchorus sloanuides, Banks and Sol., Ic. et AISS. 



