ttannafordia.] XXIlI. StEKCULlACE^. ISl 



1. H. Shanesii (after P. A. O'Shaiiesy), h'. v. M. Fragm. vi. 176. A shrub of 

 about 2ft., with velvety-tomentose branches. Leaves from 1| to 2iin. long, 5 to 

 10 lines broad, oblong, base cordate, repand-denticulate or almost entire, on 

 petioles of 2 to 1 lines ; glabresoent on the upper, velvety on the under side. 

 Peduncles bearing 2 or few flowers. Pedicels about 2 lines long. Bracteoles 3, 

 1 line long. Calyx campanulate, lin. long, striate, lobes 5, lanceolate, stellate- 

 tomentose outside, glabrous and somewhat scarlet within. Petals dark purple, 

 narrow-lanceolate, glabrous. Stamens 5 fertile, opposite the petals. Staminodia 

 3, subulate, 2 lines long. Anthers erect, extrorse, oblong. Ovary velvety, 4 or 

 5-celled. Capsule globose, about 5 or 7 lines, valves glabrous inside. Seeds 2 to 

 4 in each cell, black. — F. v. M. I.e. and x. 96. 



Hab.: Leichhardt district, O'Shntiesy (F. v. M. I.e.) 



Ordek XXIV. TILIACEvE. 



Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or rarely unisexual. Sepals 6, rarely 3 or 4, 

 free or more or less cohering, usually valvate. Petals as many or fewer or none, 

 alternate with the sepals, inserted round the base of the torus. Stamens 

 indefinite, rarely reduced to very few, inserted on the torus, which is often raised 

 or disk-like. Filaments free or slightly united at the base. Anthers 2-celled, 

 with parallel or rarely divaricate cells, opening in longitudinal slits or in terminal 

 pores. Ovary free, sessile, 2 or more celled. Style simple and entire, or divided 

 at the top into as many stigmatic teeth or lobes as there are cells. Ovules 1, 2, 

 or more in each cell, erect, pendulous, or horizontal. Fruit capsular or inde- 

 hiscent, with single or several-seeded cells, where several-seeded the cells often 

 subdivided by spurious vertical or transverse partitions. Seeds without any 

 arillus, the testa usually coriaceous or crustaceous. Albumen fleshy, rarely 

 deficient. Embryo straight or rarely curved or slightly folded. Cotyledons leafy 

 or rarely fleshy ; the radicle next to the hilum, usually shorter than the cotyledons. 

 — Trees, shrubs, or rarely herbs. Leaves alternate or very rar§ly opposite, 

 simple, with pinnate or palmate nerves, entire, toothed, or rarely lobed. Stipules 

 usually free and small or deciduous. Flowers axillary, terminal or leaf-opposed, 

 usually in little cymes, often almost umbellate, either solitary and sessile or 

 pedunculate, or arranged in panicles, 



A large Order, chiefly tropical or subtropical, spread over both the New and the Old World, 

 with one extratropical genus {Tilia) in the northern and another (Aristotelia) in the southern 

 hemisphere. The Australian genera are none of them endemic, the extratropical Aristotelia is 

 common to Chili and New Zealand. The others are all tropical and Asiatic, GreiHn extending 

 into Africa and Carchorus also partially into America, whilst Triumfetta belongs equally to the 

 New and the Old World.— Bcnt/i. 



Series A. Holopbtala. — Petals glabrous or rarely downy, coloured, thin, 

 unguiculate, entire or nearly so, imbricate or twisted in the bud. Anthers 

 globose or oblong, opening by slits. 



Tkiee I. Brownlowieee. — Sepals combined below the cup. Anthers cjlohose, cells 

 ultimately confluent at the top. 

 Anthers short, with confluent cells. Calyx irregularly 3 to 5-lobed. Petals 



entire. Capsule loculicidal, each valve 2-winged 1. Bekkya. 



Tkibe II. Grewieae. — Sepals distinct. Petals glandular at the base. Stamens springing 

 from the apex of a raised torus. 



Anthers short, with 2 parallel distinct cells opening longitudinally. Sepals 

 distinct. Petals entire. 

 Drupe iijdehiscent, not echinate, entire or 2-lobed. Petals narrow, short, 



with a foveolate base. Trees or shrubs 2. Gpewia. 



Fruit globular, echinate, indehiscent, or separating into 1-seeded cocci. 

 Petals narrow, with a foveolate or pubescent base. Shrubs or herbs , . 3. TRinMrKXTA, 



