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PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO 
[ Tiliacece. 
gent or coalescent. Fruit dry or succulent, indeliiscent, or with, loculicidal rarely 
with septicidal dehiscence, sometimes apocarpous. Seeds frequently albuminous. 
Embryo straight or bent. Cotyledons leafy, rarely amygdaloid. Radicle next to the 
hilum. 
Trees or shrubs or rarely herbaceous plants, much more frequent in the warmer 
than in the temperate zones, not advancing to arctic or antarctic latitudes, restricted 
in Australia to the tropical and eastern extratropica! tracts of the Continent and the 
Tasmanian Island. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, simple, usually toothed or lobed. 
Stipules mostly small, rarely persistent or wanting. Disposition and colors of flowers 
various.— Midi. Gen . Plant. 1004; Lindl. Veg. Mingd . third edit . 371. 
This order of plants is very closely related as well to the preceding as to the 
two following ones. Continental Australia possesses, as far as known, five species of 
Ekeocarpus and one of Aristotelia amongst the plants of the Ekeocarpeous section of 
the order. Tasmania but one Aristotelia. The section Grewiese is rather extensively 
represented in the warmer parts of Australia by species of Corchorus, Triumfetta and 
Grewia, some of these identical with Indian plants. 
ELiEOCARPUS. 
Linne , Gen. Plant. 553. 
Sepals 4-5. Petals 4-5, alternate with the sepals, subcuneate, usually 3-5-cleft, with toothed 
or fimbriated rarely entire lobes. Stamens indefinite, inserted on a liypogynous disk. Filaments 
short, capillar} 7 . Anthers usually linear, with introrse bivalvular terminal dehiscence , rarely burst- 
ing by imperfect lateral slits. Ovary sessile, 2-5-celled. Ovules 2 or more in each cell, pendulous, 
anatropal. Style subulate. Stigmas coherent. Fruit drupaceous. Putamen usually rough, 1-5- 
celled. Seeds solitary in the cells. Embryo placed in the axis of fleshy albumen. Cotyledons flat, 
longer than the superior radicle. 
Trees rather numerous in tropical Asia, rarer in Mauritius, in Eastern and Northern Australia 
and New Zealand, very rare in the Pacific Islands. Leaves alternate, usually oval or lanceolate, 
crenulated or serrulated, seldom entire. Stipules deciduous. Racemes axillary. Anthers often at 
the apex bristle-bearing. Drupes frequently blue.—Dicera, Forst. Char. Gen. t. 40; Ganitrus, Gcertn. 
deFruct. et Semin, in 271; Monocera, Jack , m Hook. Bot. Miscell. ii. 85 ; Beythea, Endl. Gen. 1011. 
Eloso carpus stands in close relationship to Friesia, which offers in its opposite leaves and in its 
baccate fruit the principal marks for discrimination. 
Elaoocarpus cyaneus, Ait. Epit. Uort. Kcw. addend. 367; Sims , Bot. Mag. 1737; Lodd. Cabin. 
1055; Turp. Diet, des Scienc . Nat. 1. 148; Loisel. Uerbier de VAmateur, iv. 237; E. reticulatus, Smith, in 
Reeds Cyclop.; Ker , in Edm. Bot. Regist. 657. 
Brancklets almost glabrous; leaves conspicuously stalked, lanceolate, acuminate, copiously serrulated, 
densely net-veined , almost glabrous; racemes simple; flowers bisexual; sepals acute, longer than the pedicels, 
slightly velvet-hairy at the margin; petals bearded inside at the base, downy at the lower margins, otherwise 
glabrous, cleft into fimbriated lobes; stamens five or six tintes as numerous as the petals, slightly downy ; 
anthers linear, sliort-mucronate, opening only at the apex; their terminal valves almost of equal length; 
