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X. MALVACEAE. 
[Hibiscus. 
Leaves petioled, cordate, palmately 3- 5 -lobed, lobes linear, often serrate or 
sinuate, the middle one longest. Bracts numerous, setaceous. Blowers -§-1 
in. diam., yellow with a purple eye. Calyx membranous, hispid, veined. 
Stamens few or many. Seeds dark-brown, wrinkled, glabrous. Capsule 
hispid. — Bot. Mag. t. 209 ; H. vesicarius, Cav. ; A. Cunn. Prodr. 
Scattered over the islands, and possibly introduced {A. Cunningham) . Most common in 
the northern parts of the Northern Island, and certainly indigenous ( Colenso ). Middle 
Island : South Wanganui, Lyall. A very common Australian, Asiatic, and S. African plant, 
also found in S. Europe and elsewhere in the Old World. 
Order XI. TILIACEJE. 
{Including Elaocarpea.) 
Trees or shrubs (rarely herbs) with often tough bark, alternate or opposite, 
often stipulate leaves. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite, rarely unisexual. — 
Sepals 4 or 5, free or connate, usually valvate. Petals 4 or 5, free, entire, 
lobed or cut. Torus generally conspicuous. Stamens usually numerous, free, 
inserted on the torus ; filaments filiform ; anthers 2-celled, often opening 
by terminal pores. Ovary sessile on the torus, 2-10-celled ; style simple, 
usually divided at the apex into as many divisions as cells ; ovules few or 
many, attached to the axis of the cells. Fruit very variable. Seeds generally 
with fleshy albumen, and broad, flat, thin cotyledons. 
A very large tropical and subtropical Order of plants, to which the English Lime-tree 
{Tilia) belongs, together with the Indian Jute ( Corchorus ), valued for its fibre. 
Leaves alternate. Petals entire. Capsule echinate 1. Entelea. 
Leaves opposite. Petals crenate or lacerate. Berry 2-4-celled ... 2. Aristot!' lia. 
Leaves alternate. Petals lacerate. Drupe 1-celled 3. Elaocarpus. 
1. ENTELEA, Br. 
A small branching light-wooded tree, covered with stellate down, having 
large, alternate, 5-7-nerved, cordate, toothed stipulate leaves, and umbellate 
cymes of white flowers. — Sepals 4 or 5, free. Petals 4 or 5, undulate. Sta- 
mens very numerous, free, on a low torus, with filiform filaments and versatile 
anthers. Ovary 4-6-celled ; style simple, stigmatiferous at the toothed apex ; 
cells many-ovuled. Capsule globose, echinate with long rigid bristles, 4-6- 
valved, loculicidal. 
1. E. arborescens, Br. ; — FI. N. Z. i. 33. Leaves 4-8 in. long, on 
long petioles, oblique, often lobed irregularly and acutely, doubly or trebly 
crenate or serrate ; stipules persistent. Flowers white, abundant, in erect 
cymes, bracteate at the axils, f-1 in. diam., drooping. Sepals acuminate. 
Ovary hispid. Capsule the size of a hazel-nut, spines nearly 1 in. long. 
Seeds in two rows, albumen oily. — Bot. Mag. t. 2480 ; Apeiba australis, A. 
llich. Flor. t. 34. 
Not rare throughout the Northern Island, Banks and Solander, etc. The genus is con- 
fined to New Zealand. 
