FJceocarpm.] XXtV. TILIACE^. 165 



slender-conical. Sepals 5, linear-lanceolate, almost 3 lines long. Petals narrow- 

 oblong, fringe very fine. Stamens 15 to 17, puberulous. Anthers barbellate- 

 mucronulate, about 1 line long. Style setaceous, 3 to 4 lines long, glabrous. 

 Disk annular, glabrous. Ovary 2-celled. 

 Hab.: Daintree River, E. Fitzalun (P. v. M.) 



11. E. sericopetalus (silky petals), F. r. M. Fvagm. vi. 171. A tree 40ft. 

 or more high. Leaves oval-lanceolate, 2^ to B^in. long, thin-coriaceous, finely 

 crenulate cuneate and entire at the base, usually shortly and obtusely acuminate 

 at the point, glabrous on each face, nerves slender and patent, not foveolate, the 

 upper reticulation somewhat prominent. Eacemes with the short peduncle 1^ to 

 2^in. long, thinly hoary-silky. Flower buds globose, nodding. Pedicels 3 to 4 

 lines long. Sepals rigidly valvate, lanceolate, 2 lines long, inserted with the 

 petals below the disk. Petals white, oblong, membianous, somewhat acute, 

 imbricate above, almost valvate below, quite entire except the minutely denticulate 

 apex, outside hoary-silky. Stamens 40 to 60, very shortly pubescent. Anthers 

 pointless, linear-tetragonal, about f line long. Style about | line long, subulate. 

 Disk flattened, annulate, very slightly crenulate. 



Hab.: Mountains about Eookingham Bay, J. Dallachy (F. v. M.) 



Order XXV. LINEJE. 



Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Sepals 5, rarely 4, free or united at the base, 

 imbricate or rarely almost valvate. Petals as many, hypogynous or rarely 

 slightly perigynous, imbricate, usually contorted. Stamens as many as petals or 

 twice or rarely thrice as many, united into a ring or short tube at the base ; 

 anthers 2-celled, with parallel cells opening longitudinally. Glands 5, adnate to 

 or embedded in the outside of the stamina! tube or rarely wanting. Disk none 

 (besides the staminal tube). Ovary free, entire, 3 to 6-celled. Ovules 2 or rarely 

 1 in each cell, pendulous, anatropous, with a ventral raphe. Styles 8 to 5, 

 distinct or more or less united, with terminal usually capitate stigmas. Fruit 

 either a capsule, separating into cocci, usually dehiscent, or a drupe, with as many 

 pyrenes as carpels, or more frequently reduced by abortion to 1. Seeds 1 or 2 in 

 each coccus or pyrene ; testa membranous or almost coriaceous ; albumen fleshy, 

 abundant or thin or entirely wanting. Embryo usually straight, with flat, ovate 

 cotyledons ; radicle superior. — Herbs, shrubs, or rarely trees, glabrous or rarely 

 hirsute or tomentose. Leaves alternate or very rarely opposite, simple and 

 entire or slightly serrate. Stipules lateral or within the petiole, sometimes 

 minute or wanting. 



An Order formerly almost limited to the genus Linum, but lately extended to include several 

 small Orders or genera, chiefly tropical, from both the New and the Old World. 'J he two 

 Australian genera are the only two large ones, both of them widely dispersed, one chiefly in 

 temperate regions, the other within the tropics. — Benth. 



Tbibe I. Eulinefe. — Petals contmted, fugacious. Perfect stamens, as many as petals. 

 Capsule septicidally dehiscent. Herbs, rarely shrubs. 

 Calyx glabrous or pubescent. Styles 5. Capsule 5, apparently 10-celled, with 



1 seed in each cell . . • 1- Linum. 



Calyx glabrous. Styles 3 or 4. Capsule 3 or 4-celled 2. Beinwakutia. 



Tbibe II. SZugToniese. — Petals contorted, fugacious. Perfect stamens 2 or 3 times as many 

 as the petals. Fruit a drupe. Usually scandent shrubs, with hooked woody tendrils. 

 Sepals subacute, tomentose, ebracteate ... . . 3. Hugonia. 



Tribe III. Brytliroxyleae. — Petals imbricate, rarely contorted, with a scale on the inner 



face, at length deciduous. Perfect stamens twice as many as the petals. Fruit a drupe. Shrubs 

 or trees. 



Pedicels axillary. Petals with a double scale. Drupe 1-seeded . . . i. Ekythkoxvlon. 



