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those of the stove species require a moist heat. The seeds are 
difficult to import, therefore they should be sown in boxes, and 
the plants raised before they are sent off from the places of their 
natural growth. 
II. TRI’PHACA (from rpecc, treis, three, and pakn, phake, 
a lentil; in allusion to the three carpels.) Lour. coch. 577. D.C. 
prod. 1. p. 483. 
Lin. syst. Monoecia, Monadélphia. Flowers monoecious. 
Calyx 5-cleft. Petals none. Stamens in the male flower 15, 
monadelphous. Style one in the female flower, crowned by a 
trifid stigma. Carpels 3, legume-shaped, inflated, acuminated, 
tomentose, many-seeded. Seeds 4-5, oblong-ovate. 
1 T. Arrica‘na (Lour. l. c.) h. S. Native on the eastern 
coast of Africa on the Mozambique coast. Leaves on long 
stalks, cordate, quite entire. Cymes lateral and terminal. 
Flowers yellow. Perhaps a species of Stercùlia. 
African Triphaca. Tree 40 feet. 
Cult. This tree will thrive well in a mixture of loam and 
peat, and ripened cuttings, not deprived of their leaves, will root 
freely in sand under a hand-glass, in a moist heat. 
III. REEVE'SIA (in honour of John Reeves, F. L. S., 
now resident at Canton, from whose exertions the botany of 
China has received material assistance, and to whom the British 
gardens are indebted for many of the fairest ornaments they 
contain). Lindl. bot. reg. 1236. ' 
Lin. syst. Monadélphia, Dodecándria. Calyx campanulate, 
5-toothed, imbricate in æstivation, tomentose. Petals 5, un- 
guiculate, convolute in zstivation. Stamens joined into a long 
filiform tube. Anthers 15, sessile, collected into a little head, 
2-celled, bursting lengthwise. Ovary sessile, within the anther- 
iferous head. Capsule stipitate, woody, obovate, 5-angled, 5- 
celled, 5-valved, without any central axis. Seeds 2 in each 
cell, winged at the base.—A tree with alternate, exstipulate, 
lanceolate, acuminated, smooth, entire leaves, with the petioles 
jointed at the top, and compound, terminal, or axillary racemes 
of white flowers. This tree joins the Sterculidcee with Byttneri- 
acee. It agrees with Stercùlia in the flowers, but with Ptero- 
spérmum in the seeds. e 
1 R. tuyrsorpea (Lindl. bot. reg. 1236.) h.G. Native 
of China. 
Thyrse-like-flowered Reevesia. Fl. Jan. Clt. 1824. Tree 
20 feet. 
Cult. This tree will require to be propagated and cultivated 
in the same manner as that recommended for the green-house 
species of Stercalia. 
IV. HERETIE'RA (in honour of Charles Louis L. Heretier ` 
de Brutelle, a celebrated French botanist, died in 1800, author 
of many botanical works,) Dry. in Ait. hort. kew. 3. p. 546. 
D. C. prod. 1. p. 484.—Balanopteris, Gert. fruct. 2. p. 94.— 
Samandùra, Lin. fl. zeyl. no. 433. 
Lin. syst. Monoecia, Monadélphia. Flowers monoecious. 
Calyx 5-toothed. Stamens in male flowers 5-10, with the fila- 
ments joined into a tube ; anthers sessile on the top of the tube. 
Anthers in the female flowers 10, sessile, 2 between each carpel. 
Carpels 5, 1-styled, containing few ovule, at length drupaceous, 
coriaceous, with a winged keel, indehiscent, l-seeded from 
abortion. Albumen none. Embryo very thick, with fleshy 
unequal cotyledons, and an ovate, acuminated, radicle. Plumule 
2-leaved.—T rees with simple, alternate, lepidoted, entire leaves, 
and axillary panicles of small, red flowers. 
STERCULIACES. II. Triewaca. III. Rerevesra. IV. HERETIERA. BYTTNERIACEX, 
1 H. urrrora‘tis (Ait. hort. kew, I. c.) leaves oval-oblong, 
rounded at the base, coriaceous, silvery beneath ; carpels marked 
lengthwise with a nerve above. h. S. Native of the Philip- 
pine islands, Moluccas, Java, &c.—Rheed. mal. 6.t. 21.—Rumph. 
amb, 3. t. 63. Balanépteris Tothila, Gert. fruct. 2. t. 99. Leaves 
large, coriaceous. Flowers small, reddish. 
Shore Looking-glass Plant. Clt. 1788. Tree 20 feet. 
. 2 H. Fo'mas (Willd. spec. 4. p: 971.) leaves reticulately vein- 
ed beneath. h.S. Native of the East Indies on the banks of 
rivers in the kingdom of Ava, where it is called Fémas.—Syms. 
itin. ed. gall. 3. p. 100. t. 28. Leaves silvery beneath. 
Fomas Looking-glass Plant. Tree 20 feet. a 
3 H. minor (Lam. dict. 3. p. 229.) carpels with a longitudinal 
furrow above. h. S. Native of the Mauritius, where it is 
probably cultivated. Balanépteris minor, Geert. fruct. 2. t. 98. 
f. 2. This is probably the same as H. Fomas. 
Smaller Looking-glass Plant. Clt. 1824. Tree 14 feet. 
Cult. These trees thrive well in sandy loam, or a mixture 
of loam and peat. Large ripened cuttings root freely in sand 
under a hand-glass, in a moist heat. Trees with fine large 
foliage. Seeds do not retain their vegetative powers long. 
Orver XXXIII. BYTTNERIA'CE& (plants agreeing with 
Byttnéria in some important characters.) Brown congo, Kunth, 
diss. malv. p. 6. nov. gen. amer. 5. p. 309.—Hermanniacee, 
Vent. 
Calyx sometimes naked (f. 92. a. f. 88. b.), sometimes girded 
by an involucre (f. 93. b.). Sepals more or less connected at 
the base (f. 92. a. f. 93. a. f. 94. a.), constantly valvate in 
estivation. Petals 5, hypogynous, alternating with the sepals 
(f£. 93. c.), convolute in estivation, of various forms, rarely un- 
equal or wanting (f. 90. c.). Stamens equal in number to the 
sepals or petals (f. 91.f.), or double triple, or multiple, that num- 
ber (f. 92. d. f. 93. d.), filaments monadelphous (f. 92. d. f. 93. 
e.), or variously divided at the top (f. 92. c. f. 89. h.),-some of 
them are sometimes sterile (f. 92. d.) ; anthers 2-celled (f. 92. c-), 
behind. Carpels 5 (f. 88. d. f. 89. g. f. 91. d. f. 92. e. f 
93. h.), joined into one ovary, crowned by as many distinct or 
connected (f. 92. g. f. 93. g.) styles. Albumen oily or fleshy, 
rarely wanting. Embryo straight, with an inferior radicle, and 
leafy, flat, or plaited cotyledons, or they convolute around the 
plumule, but they are sometimes very thick in the exalbumenous 
seeds. This order differs from Malvaceae, Bombacee, Tiliacee, 
and Eleocarpee, with which it agrees in habit, in the valvate 
eestivation of the calyx, and -the convolute estivation of the 
corolla: from Malvacee and Bombdacee in the anthers being 2- 
celled, not 1-celled, as in those orders; from Tiliacee and E leo- 
cárpeæ in the filaments being monadelphous, and from Stercu- 
liàceæ in the carpels being connected into one fruit, not distinct, 
as in that order. Itis composed of trees and shrubs, usually natives 
within the tropics; some few are to be found in the north and 
south of Africa, and a few in the north of Asia. They are 
furnished with simple lobed or toothed stipulate leaves, and 
usually with beautiful flowers. Æstrapæa, and some genera 
related to it, are amongst the most elegant plants in the world. 
The flowers of a species of Pentdpetes, called by the Indians 
Machucunha, give out a mucilaginous refrigerent juice, which 1s 
employed in gonorrhoea. Guazima ulmifòlia has its fruit filled 
