TILIACEtE. 



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TILIACEM 



Exogens, with axillary flowers. Divisions of calyx four or five. 

 Petals four or five, entire, with a little pit at their base, or they 

 are wanting. Stamens generally indefinite in number, distinct. 

 Ovary single, composed of from two to ten carpels, which are 

 sometimes disunited. Style one, stigmas as many as the carpels. 

 Leaves simple, toothed, alternate. — Trees or shrubs, very seldom 

 herbaceous plants ; natives principally of the tropics. 



PRIESIA. 



Gen. Char. (Bodecandria Monogynia.) Calyx five-parted ; petals 

 four, with the apex three-lobed ; anthers twelve. 



Friesia peduncularis is a very elegant shrub for the green- 

 house, about six feet high, with opposite lanceolate leaves 

 of a pretty bright green, and drooping flowers on pendent 

 stalks, these spring from amongst the leaves and are exceed- 

 ingly pretty and numerous, giving a myrtle-like appearance 

 to the plant ; the petals are longer than the calyx, broad, 

 and three-lobed, white, with orange spots at the base, and 

 two orange dots on the lobes ; it is a native of Van Die- 

 men's Land. 



