THE LINDEN TREE FAMILY. 



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generally a many-celled, dry capsule or berry with numerous 

 seeds. This family is represented by nearly 300 species, 

 widely distributed over the temperate and tropical regions. 

 The genus Hypericum or St. John's wort is the most nu- 

 merous in species, the most showy being H. Androscemum, 

 Tutsan or Park Leaves, a native of this country. It is a 

 low shrub, having smooth, glossy leaves and yellow flowers. 



About 11 species oi Hypericum are natives of this country. 

 The largest representatives of the family are Ancistrolohus 

 curnecL and^. mollis^ natives of the forests of Pegu ; they are 

 tall growing trees, but seldom exceed 3 feet in girth ; they 

 have dark brown wood. 



Vismia Guianensis, a small tree, native of Guiana, yields 

 a resin called American G-amboge. The genus Carpodontos 

 also consists of large trees, G. lucida being a beautiful 

 flowering tree, native of Mount Wellington, Tasmania. It 

 has been introduced into this country. The genus Reaumuria 

 is by some botanists made the type of a distinct family. It 

 consists of only 4 known species, differing from Hypericum 

 in the calyx being bell-shaped, and furnished with bracts. 

 They are small branched trailing or bushy shrubs with soft, 

 thick, fleshy, flat or heath-like leaves, of a bluish hue, and 

 are natives of the salt plains of Western Asia and North 

 Africa. They contain saline matter. Reaumuria hypericoides, 

 native of Syria, is a small heath-like trailing shrub, with 

 pretty pink flowers ; it has long been cultivated at Kew. 



THE MALLOW AND LINDEN TEEE ALLIANCE. 

 The Linden Tree Family. 



(TlLIACE^.) 



Trees or soft wooded shrubs, rarely herbs. Leaves simple, 

 alternate, often heart-shaped, with stipules. Flowers solitary 

 or many together on leafy bracts. Sepals and petals 4 or 5 

 each. Stamens numerous, part in some sterile. Fruit a 

 5 or 10-valved capsule, sometimes winged, often prickly or 



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