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144 MONADELPHIA DODECANDRIA. Sterculia, 
conical, five-lobed. Style single, twice the length of the sta- 
mina, at the base five-grooved, curved. Stigma simple, acute. 
Capsules five, much twisted, fine-pointed, villous, one-celled, 
one-valyed. Seeds numerous, in one row, angular. 
STERCULIA. Schreb. gen. N. 828. 
Moneecous or polygamous, Calyx inferior, five-parted. 
Corol none. Column ot fructification and staminiferous tube, 
various. Germs five, one-celled, many-seeded ; atiachment 
interior. Capsules leguminous, from one to five, distinct. 
Seeds few. Embryo various, with or without perisperm. 
1.8. Balanghas. Willd. ii, 872. 
Leaves oblong, entire, smooth. Panicles sie jes col Fol- 
licles oval, villous, 
Chin, Pim-pho. 
Cavalum. Rheed, Mal. ii. t. 49. 
Found in gardens about Calcutta, where it grows to be a 
pretty large tree, with a very ramous head. 
Bark brown, pretty smooth, Flowering time April ; seed 
ripens in July. Leaves alternate, about the extremities of 
the branchlets petioled, oblong, smooth on both sides, en- 
tire, from two to twelve inches long, Petioles round, thick at 
each end, about one inch long, Stipules none. Panicles 
- axillary, generally solitary, pendulous. Peduncles and pe- 
dicels coloured, slender, a little downy. Flowers numerous, 
small, pendulous, flesh-coloured, faintly fragrant, MALE. | 
Calyx or corol, for there is but one, bastiad bay alittle hairy, 
campanulate, five- parted ; divisions long’, slender ; margins 
revolute, converging at the points, gaping wide at the sides. 
Filaments (column) single, from the bottom of the bell of 
the corol, towards the apex recurved, crowded with anthers, 
too crowded and minute to be distinctly counted, _Herma- 
phrodite flowers few, and on the same plant, Calyx or €or ol 
as inthe male, Filaments many, but very short. Anthers 
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