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XI. TILIACEiE. 
[ Elceocarpus . 
Leaves generally alternate, exstipulate. — Flowers racemose, usually herma- 
phrodite, pendulous. Sepals 4 or 5, valvate. Petals 4 or 5, laciniate, indu- 
plicate-valvate. Stamens numerous, seated on a glandular torus ; filaments 
short, anthers long, awned, pubescent, opening by a short, terminal slit. 
Ovary 2-5 -celled ; style subulate, stigma simple; ovules 2 or more, pendu- 
lous. Drupe with one bony, 1- or several-celled nut, which is often tuber- 
cled or wrinkled. Seed pendulous. 
A very large tropical Asiatic, Australian, and Polynesian genus. 
Twigs silky. Leaves with recurved margins 1. E. dentatus. 
Twigs glabrous. Leaves flat 2. E. Honkerianus. 
1. E. dentatus, Vahl ; — E. Hinau, A. Cunn. ; FI. N. Z. i. 32. A small 
tree, with brown bark, which yields a permanent dye ; branches fastigiate at 
the top of the naked trank, silky when young. Leaves erect, petioled, 2-3 
in. long, very coriaceous and variable, linear-oblong obovate or lanceolate, ob- 
tuse or acuminate, margins recurved, sinuate-serrate, below often white with 
silky down, and with hollows where the veins meet the midrib. Eacemes 
glabrous or silky, of many white pendulous flowers in. diam. Petals lobed 
or lacerate. Anthers with a flat recurved tip. Drupe -J — \ in. long, ovoid, 
pulp astringent but eatable; stone deeply furrowed. — Hook. Ic. PI. t. 602; 
E. Cunninghamii, Eaoul, Clioix, 25 ; Dicer a dentata, Forst. ; Erioslemon den- 
tatum, Colla, Hort. Eip. lii. t. 30. 
Common throughout the islands, Banks and Solander, etc. 
2. E. Hookerianus, Raoul , Clioix, t. xxv. ; — El. N. Z. i. 32. A small, 
quite glabrous tree, 30-40 ft. high, like E. dentatus in habit, but smaller 
in all its parts. Leaves coriaceous, elliptical or linear-oblong, obtuse, 1£- 2 
in. long, margins flat, crenate or sinuate-serrate, those of young plants linear 
and pinnatifid ; petioles in. long. Racemes erect, shorter than the leaves, 
with small, drooping, whitish flowers. Sepals lanceolate. Petals rather 
longer, unequally cleft into obtuse lobes. Anthers obtuser than in E. dentatus. 
Drape small, blue, -§• in., with a furrowed rugose nut. 
Hilly and other parts of the Northern Island ; and common on the Middle Island, 
Colenso, Raoul, etc. 
Order XII. LINEiE. 
Herbs or undershrubs, usually with entire, alternate leaves, and subrace- 
mose, handsome, hermaphrodite, regular flowers. — Sepals 5, free, imbricate. 
Petals 5, free, fugacious, contorted. Stamens 5, hypogynous ; filaments united 
below into a cup, which has usually 5 minute glands at its base ; anthers ver- 
satile. Ovary 3-5 -celled ; styles 3-5, stigmas terminal; cells 1-2-ovuled. 
Capsule splitting septicidally into indehiscent or dehiscent 1-2-seeded cocci. 
Seeds with scanty albumen or 0. 
A rather large Order, in temperate and tropical countries, of which the tribe Eulinece is 
chiefly temperate, 'the Flax, L. usitatissimum , belongs to the only N. Z. genus, which is a 
large European one. 
1. LimJM, Linn. 
Glabrous herbs, with narrow, quite entire leaves, fibrous bark, and usually 
