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as many as sepals, inserted around the base of the torus, entire or cut, aestivation 

 contorted or variously imbricate, induplicate or valvate, very rarely gamopetalous 

 [Antholoma). Stamens usually indefinite, rarely double the number of the sepals 

 {Triumfetta, Gorchorus), sometimes 10-seriate on the top of a stipitiform torus and 

 distinct from the petals, sometimes covering the whole surface of a discoid torus, 

 sometimes inserted around the edge of the torus next the petals or enveloped by 

 them ; filaments free, or connate into a ring or 5-10 bundles, filiform, all antheri- 

 ferous, or some not {8parmannia, Luhea, DiplodiscAts, &c.), sometimes irritable 

 {8]parmannia) ; anther-cells parallel, contiguous, dehiscing longitudinally, or at the 

 top by a pore or transverse slit {Elceocarpus, Sloanea, Vallea, Aristotelia, &c.), rarely 

 divergent and confluent at the top {Brownlowia, Bvplodiscus) . Ovaet free, sessile, 

 2-10-celled ; style simple ; stigmas as many as cells, free or connate, sometimes 

 sessile (Carpodiptera, Mv/ntingia) ; ovules attached to the inner angle of the cells, 

 solitary or geminate, pendulous from the top of each cell, or ascending from the 

 base; sometimes few, inserted at the middle of the cell, sometimes numerous, 

 2-many-seriate, anatropous or sub-anatropons, raphe ventral or lateral. Feuit of 

 2-10 cells, or 1-celled by suppression, or many-celled by false septa, sometimes inde- 

 liiscent, nutlike (Tilia), or a drupe [Grewia, Eloeocarpus) , rarely a berry {Aristotelia, 

 Muntingia) ; sometimes separating into cocci {Colombia) ; sometimes loculicidally 

 dehiscent, rarely septicidally {Duhouzetia) . Seeds solitary or numerous in each cell, 

 ascending or pendulous or horizontal, exarillate, ovoid or angular ; testa usually 

 coriaceous or crustaceous, often velvety; endopleura sometimes hardened at the 

 chalaza ; albumen fleshy, copious or thin, rarely {Brownlowia) ; cotyledons folia- 

 ceous, flat, entire or lobeAfrndicle inferior or superior or centripetal. 



Section I. TILIEM. 



Petals entire, or very rarely emarginate, aestivation imbricate, or more often 



contorted. 



PEINCIPAL GENERA. 



Bro-wnlowia. *Grewia. *Triumfetta. *Sparmannia. *Corchorus. 



Luhea. *Tilia. Apeiba. Vallea. 



Section II. EL^OGABPEJE. 



Petals often cut, sometimes entire {Dubouzetia) or 0, usually pubescent, aestiva- 

 tion valvate or induplicate, never contorted. Stamens some in groups opposite to 

 the petals, the others solitary and alternate. 



PRINCIPAL G-ENERA. 



ProcHa. Hasseltia. Sloanea. 'Aristotelia. *El8eocarpua. *Monocera. 



[The following tribes of this extensive family have been proposed in the 'Genera 

 Plantarum ' : — 



Series A. Holopetalese. — Petals usually glabrous, membranous, contracted at the base 

 or clawed, rarely notched, usually contorted. 



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