380 xxviii. TiLiACEJE. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 



times 5-adelphous, filaments filiform ; anthers 2-celled. Ovary free, 

 2-10-celled ; styles columnar, or divided into as many divisions as there 

 are cells to the ovary, stigmas usually distinct rarely confluent or sessile. 

 Ovules attached to the inner angle of the cells of the ovary, if few in 

 number often pendulous from the apex or ascending from the base, if 

 more numerous disposed in 2 or more ranks, anatropous ; raphe ventral 

 or lateral. I'ruit fleshy or dry, dehiscent or indehiscent, 2-10 or by 

 abortion l-ceUed (cells sometimes divided by false partitions), carpels 

 separable or always united. Seeds 1 or many, ascending, pendulous or 

 transverse, with no arillus, testa leathery or crustaceous or pilose, albumen 

 fleshy abundant or scanty rarely wanting ; embryo straight or slightly 

 curved, cotyledons leafy rarely fleshy, radicle next the hilum. — Disteib. 

 About 350 species some of which occur in all the great divisions of the 

 world except the arctic and antarctic, but most abundantly in the tropics 

 of either hemisphere. Some of the genera and many of the species are 

 strictly Indian. 



Series A. Kolopetalae. 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. 



Tribe I. Brownlowieae. Sepals combined below into a cup. Anthers 

 globose, cells ultimately confluent at the top. 



* Staminodes 5. 



Carpels distinct, 2-valved 1. Browitlowu.. 



Carpels combined, indehiscent, winged 2. Pehtace. 



Capsule 5-Talved 3. PnrKAtoHE. 



** Staminodes 0. 



Stamens on a raised toras 4. Ohartaoaltx. 



Stamens on a contracted toras 5. Beekta. 



Tribe II. Grewieae. Sepals distinct. Petals glandular at the base. 

 Stamens springing from the apex of a raised torus. 



* Fruit destitute ofpricMes. 



Fruit drupaceous 6. Gbewia. 



Truit of 3-5 winged cocci 7. CoLnMBiA. 



** Pruit prickly. 



Fruit large 3-angular, indehiscent 8. Erinocaepus. 



Iruit smaU, globose, mdehiscent, or 3-5-coccons 9. Teiumfetta. 



Tribe ni. Tllieee. Sepals distinct. Petals not glandular. Stamms 

 springing from a contracted torus. 



Leaves alternate 10_ Cobchoeds. 



Leaves opposite „_ Pj^qjopteeon. 



Semes B. Keteropetalae. Petals sepaloid, incised or 0, indurficate 

 or imbncate, not twisted. Anthers linear, opening by a terminal pore. 



Stamens on a depressed torus Fruit capsular 12. EcmNOCAEPDS. 



btamens on a raised torus. R-uit drupaceous 13. El^bocaefub. 



