i5^ XXIV. tiliaCe^. 



Tbibe m. •rHiex.— Sepals distinct. Petals not gUndular. Stamens springing from a 



contracted torus. 



Capsule 2 to 5-oelled, with several seeds in each, opening in valves, usually 

 long and smooth, rarely short and echinate. Petals usually obovate or 

 broad, without a foveola. Shrubs or herbs 4. Coechokus. 



Series B. HETEEOPBTALa;.— Petals sepaloid, incised or none, induplicate or 

 imbricate, not twisted. Anthers linear, opening by a terminal pore. 



Tribe IV. Sloaniese.— Anthers linear, dehiscent at the apex. Disk stameniferous, plan.e 

 or pulvinate. Sepals and petals inserted immediately around the stamens. 



Sepals 4, imbricate in 2 series. Capsule echinate, 4-valved .5. Sloanea. 



Tribe V. Elasocarpese.— ^nt/iers linear, dehiscent at the apex. Petals around the base of 

 a raised torus, from the inside of which the stamens arise. 



Sepals 4 or 5, valvate. Fruit a berry 6. Aeistotelia. 



Sepals 4 or 5, valvate. Fruit a drupe 7. El«ocakpds. 



1. BERRYA, Eoxb. 

 (After Dr. A. Berry.) 



Calyx campanulate, irregularly 3 to 5-lobed. Petals 5, without any foveola at 

 the base. Stamens numerous, free, without staminodia ; anthers subglobose, the 

 cells at length confluent into one. Torus not raised. Ovary (2 ? or) 3-celled, 

 with 4 ovules in each cell ; style subulate (2 ? or) 8-lobed (or the styles distinct ?). 

 Capsule nearly globular, opening loculicidally in 2 or 3 valves, each valve bearing 

 2 vertical, diverging, coriaceous wings. Seeds 1 or 2 in each cell, densely covered 

 with rigid hairs ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons leafy, flat. — Trees. Leaves entire, 

 5 or 7-nerved. Flowers small, white, the umbel-like cymes arranged in a terminal 

 panicle. 



The genus consists of a single species, common to tropical Australia and Asia. 



1. B. Ammonilla (its name in Ceylon), Roxh. PI. Coram, iii. 60, t. 264, 

 var. rotundifolia (round-leaved) ; Benth. Fl. Aiistr. i. 268. A small tree, the 

 young branches slightly tomentose. Leaves cordate-orbicular, very obtuse, B or 

 4in. diameter, rigidly membranous, glabrous when full-grown. Flowers of the 

 Australian variety unknown, except from some fragments remaining about the 

 fruits seen by R. Brown, in which he ascertained that the calyx was lobed and 

 the stamens numerous. Capsule (always ?) .2-celled, the wings broadly obovate, 

 about i^in. long, sinuate-erenate on the margin. Seeds 1 or 2 in each cell, 



■ Hab.: Cape York and Torres Straits Islands. 



The shape of the fruit and its wings and the seeds are the same as in the Asiatic S, 

 Ammonilla, Eoxb., DC. Prod. i. 517, Wight, 111. t. 34; but as that species has acuminate leaves 

 and a 3-celled capsule, I had at first thought that this one might be distinct. I find, however, 

 some Ceylon specimens with the same rounded leaves, and the Australian specimens are not 

 sufficient to show whether the reduced number of carpels is more than accidental. — Benth. 



2. GREWIA, Linn. 



(After Dr. W. Grew.) 



Sepals 5, distinct. Petals 5, with a foveola or thickened cavity at the base, 

 usually shorter than the calyx, inserted round the base of the tours. Stamens 

 indefinite, inserted on the raised torus. Ovary 2 to 4-celled, with 2 or more 

 ovules in each cell ; style subulate, minutely toothed or lobed. Drupe containing 

 1 to 4 pyrenes or nuts, entire or 2 or 4-lobed, the nuts either 1 -seeded or 2 or 

 more seeded, and then divided by transverse partitions between the seeds. Seeds 

 ascending or horizontal, the albumen usually copious, the cotyledons flat. — 

 Trees or shrubs, the hairs or tomentum stellate. Leaves entire or serrate, 3 to 



