Sterculia. MONADELPHIA DODECANDRIA, 145 
perfect, surrounding the base of the germ. Germs five, very 
hairy, elevated ona receptacle, surrounding a column, which 
ends in a style, so much recurved as to bring the five-lobed 
stigma in contact with the stamens that surround the base of 
the germ. Capsules, from one to five come to maturity, oval, 
one-celled, one-valved, opening longitudinally on the inside. 
Seeds few, aftixed to the gaping sutures. Jntequments two. 
The exterior one of a dark-chesnut colour, and clammy on the 
outside, on the inside buff-colour. The interior one coriace- 
ous, dull black on the outside, and lined with a light brown 
tunic within, Pertsperm none, except a fleshy darker colour- 
ed exterior coat of the cotyledons can be so called. Lmbryo 
the size and shape of the seed. Coty/edons thick, of different 
sizes and shapes. Radicle opposite to the umbilicus. 
Note, The seeds are deemed wholesome, and nearly as pa- 
latable as chesnuts when roasted, 
2. S. wrens. Willd. ii. 873. Roxb. Corom. pl. N. 24. 
Leaves round-cordate, five-lobed ; /obes entire, long, fine- 
pointed. Panicles erect ; calyx ees Capsules 
armed with sharp bristles, ake ; 
Hind. Bulee. ree ep whee Fae 3 
Teling. Kavalee. dj. tai tel aerials Bi 
A large tree, a native of the mountainous countriesom dhe 
coast of Coromandel, Hindoostan, &e. ANCE 
Leaves deciduous about the end of the wet season. It flow: 
ers during the cold, and the leaves appear with the fruit about 
the beginning of the hot season. Trunk erect, very straight, 
top large and shady, Bark light ash-coloured, very smooth ; 
its outer coat is thin, transparent, covered with a farinace- 
ous substance, and peels off like the exterior pellicle of the 
birch bark; inwardly it is fibrous, and netted. Leaves 
about the extremities of the branches, alternate, petioled, 
five-lobed, five-nerved ; lobes acute, very downy, from nine 
to twelve inches each way. Petioles nearly as long as the 
leaves, round, downy. Panicles terminal, pretty large, 
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