No other Sterculia has been remarked to produce such 

 a gum as that collected from this tree ; but it is probable 

 that many others would yield the same substance, as it 

 seems nothing more than the concrete state of the mucilage, 

 which is so universal in the order, and which is one of the 

 signs of affinity between Sterculiaceae and Malvaceae. 



Besides its use as a medicinal plant, this species has no 

 particular claim to interest the cultivator, its flowers being 

 far from ornamental, and the foliage being very inferior in 

 beauty to the more common Sterculia Balanghas. It will 

 always require the heat of the stove, where it may be 

 increased, we presume without difficulty, by cuttings. 



Branchlets downy, ferruginous. Leaves alternate, pe- 

 tiolate, oblong, cuspidate, generally rounded at each end, 

 quite entire, except at the apex. Which is sometimes bifid 

 or trifid, smooth upon the upper surface, downy on the 

 under, and upon the petiole; the down is formed of stellate 

 hairs. Panicles densely downy, contracted, axillary, either 

 shorter or longer than the leaves. Calyj^ campanulate, 

 downy, brownish purple, 5-cleft, the segments cohering at 



apex. aSV^w^cw^ those of the genus. Pistilla 



J. L. 



NOTE. 



//^/ D ■! ^"'■f^oing matter was sent to press, we have received an early copy of the new 

 .Tr.Tl!"*i: ''"i "^^ ^'■- ^O'ldon, in which we find, p. 392, a Sterculia, mentioned 



Guinea f °^"^ pulescens of Mr. George Don, which is described as a native of 



imea, forming an evergreen tree 

 Tragacantha; but its flowers n«. 



s conjecture 

 same time \< 



1793. 

 founded 



^Z p*JL^''T"^ opportunity of expressing our "admrrati^"of "the "^v^^v in which the 

 IrfmJtf^^^TVt'^ Catalogue now referred to has been executed. The numter of species 

 flowpr]!! B^.- I ^r'^t* to 28,565, exclusive of varieties. This, after deducting the 

 ha.r!l7^„ '^ *^*"*''. a^iounting to 2663, is a much more extensive hst than any that 



nas jet appeared. But it is not on account of th, ' " 



attention^-as this ,s a subject upon which some 

 the beauty of its type, the excellent arrangement o 



principles of orthography and etymology to the accentuation and termination of the 

 tystematic names, that give rt a claim to be considered a classical work in the literature 

 li^^- „ "?• , J" perfection in the latter respect is due to Mr. Alexander Rowan, whose 



T the grateful acknowledgment of aU readers, and will be found not less useful 



matter. 



knowledg 



conformable to the present state of science, as the Linnean and Natural system of Botany 

 are both introduced, if the former had been made subordinate to the latter. W« ,«"» 



inT !^'"V^P^™*^'**®' '^^ ^* **»« «^™e time admit, the force of the motives that have 

 nauced the editor to adopt an opposite plan, which is, after all, of less importance, as there 



"vs^m * """^ *°'^ '■*'■■*-'"' Cmahgne by Mr. Sweet, arranged uiHjn the iNatural 



