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THALAMI FLORA:. 
half the length of the petals. Style niultifido-pencilled. Cap- 
sule 1-celled, 1 -seeded. 
This plant is very common in Guinea-grass pastures, and is 
usually to be found in the bundles of grass sent to Kingston. 
The heads of flowers, in such situations, are usually subsessile. 
In the mountains of St David’s and Port-Royal the peduncles 
are elongated. 
ORDER XXVII. TILIACEiE. 
Calyx of 4-5 sepals ; aestivation valvular. Petals 
of the same number as the sepals, alternating with 
them, usually with a little pit at the base. Stamens 
generally indefinite, hypogynous ; anthers 2-celled, 
opening with a double longitudinal slit. Disk formed 
of glandules equal in number to the petals, and oppo- 
site to them, adhering to the stalk of the ovary. 
Ovary single composed of 4-10 carpels ; style 1 ; 
stigmata as many as the carpels. Fruit dry, multilo- 
cular. Seeds several in each cell : albumen fleshy ; 
embryo straight ; cotyledons plane, fleshy. 
Trees or shrubs, with leaves simple, stipulate, toothed, alter- 
nate, and with flowers axillary. Natives principally of the 
Tropics. They all possess a mucilaginous juice. The berries 
of some are edible ; and the bark of all are remarkable for the 
toughness of their fibres, and that of one species is used in 
Brazil for tanning. 
I. CORCHORUS. 
Sepals 5 deciduous. Petals 5. Stamens co. Style 
scarcely any. Stigmata 2-5. Capsule 2-5 valved, 2-5 
celled, with the valves septiferous down the middle. 
Seeds in two rows. 
Name , from xog^ogog, the Greek name of a culinary vegeta- 
ble, supposed to be the C. olitorius. — The C. Japonicus has 
been introduced, and is common in our gardens in the moun- 
tains. 
1. Corchorus siliquosus. Long -podded Broom-weed. 
Capsules linear compressed glabrous 2-eclled 2-val- 
