146 MONADELPHIA DODECANDRIA. Sterculha. 
every part covered with a glutinous, farinaceous, yellow 
down, Bractes lanceolate. Flowers small, numerous, yel- 
low, male and hermaphrodite mixed; there is but a small 
proportion of the latter. Hermaphrodite calyx below, cam- 
panulate, five-toothed, leathery ; divisions acute; on the in- 
side of each division near the base, there is an obcordate 
hairy gland. Corol none. Filaments ten, alternately longer, 
united below inte a thin sheath, which girds the receptacle 
of the germs, Anthers large, two-lobed, alternately larg- 
er. Germs five, placed on a thick, short pedicel, as in 
Grewia, Style single, short, thick. Stigma five-lobed. Cap- 
sules five, united in the form of a star, one-celled, one-valved, 
opening lengthways on the inside, covered with yellow down, 
and many stiff burning hairs. Seeds from three to six, oblong, 
chesnut-coloured, inserted seoraagani into the es of the 
— ieee eimai ahha! 
~ Mare. Calys ; : stamens and columnar Gieigiactirs as in 1 thie 
hermaphrodite. Pistillum, the rudiments of the genus only, 
without any appearance of a style. 
The wood of this tree is soft and spongy, except towards 
the centre of large trees, where it is reddish, I do not know 
of any use it is put to, except to make fuel. vii 
I observed, that the water in which I kept the green 
branches for examination, became thick, like a clean gluti- 
aon 7 - —— = eos the _— 
_ Note. “This a agrees nearly with Stecadia plentes ifolia of the 
aipplonent: The chief difference is, that here the leaves are 
downy, there very smooth, It yields a gum not unlike 
Tragacanth, and has been sent to London as such, but the 
artists, who use that gum, did not find it answer, The seeds 
are roasted and used by the natives as an article of diet, pase 
also as a dainty. +e Ht = : figetey nit sete 
be ‘ 
3. S. eolorata. Willd. ii. 813. R. spEleibian: phi i: Me Bee pes 
- Leaves five-lobed ; lobes acute. a 1 
