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62 "BYTTNERIACE X. STERCULIA. 
often winged. Albumen oily, or fleshy, rarely wanting. Embryo 
usually straight: radicle inferior : cotyledons foliaceous, flat and plaited, 
or rolled round the plumula ; or, in the exalbuminous seeds, very thick. 
—Trees or shrubs. Pubescence often stellate. Leaves alternate, sim- 
ple, exstipulate. 
TRIBE I. STERCULIER. Kunth. 
Flowers by abortion frequently unisexual. Calyx without bracteoles, 5-lobed, 
deciduous. Petals none. Stamens as many, or twice, thrice, or four times as many 
as the lobes of the calyx, shortly monadelphous at the base. Ovarium often stalk- 
ed, consisting of 5 distinct carpels. Albumen oily or none. Embryo erect: cotyle- 
dons flat and foliaceous in the albuminose seeds, very thick and unequal in the ex- 
albuminose: radicle ovate, short.—Leaves entire, lobed, or digitate ; petioles with 
a swelling at both their base and apex. 
I. STERCULIA. Linn.; Lam. ill. t. 736. 
Calyx 5-lobed, somewhat coriaceous. Stamens monadelphous, united into 
a short urceolus which is either sessile or at.the extremity of a solid staminal 
column: anthers 10, 15, or 20, in a single or double row, solitary or in threes. 
Ovary stalked or sessile. Carpels follicular, 5, distinct, 1-celled, 1- or many- 
seeded, dehiscing on the inside towards the top. Seeds with an oily albumen: 
cotyledons flat, foliaceous, equal.—Trees with simple or compound leaves, 
and axillary panicles or racemes of flowers.* 
229. (1) S. Balanghas (Linn.:) leaves elliptic-oblong, bluntish, rounded at 
the base, entire, nearly glabrous: flowers panicled: calyx campanulate ; seg- 
ments long, linear, cohering at the apex: fruit stalked ; carpels ovate or obo- 
vate, many-seeded.—DC. prod. 1. p. 482 ; Spr. syst. 3. p. 82; Roxb. in E. I. 
rs bape tab. 991; Wall! L.n. 1118; Wight! cat. n. 229.— Rheed. Mal. 1. 
230. (2) S. guttata (Roxb.:) leaves between broadly-ovate and oblong, 
obtuse or with a longish sudden acumination, entire, prominently nerved and 
veined beneath ; upper side shining, under young leaves densely pubescent: 
racemes somewhat fascicled, nearly simple: pedicels short: calyx deeply 5- 
cleft, tomentose; segments lanceolate, distinct: ovarium stalked: carpels 
_obovate.—Roxb. hort. Bengh. p. 50; DC. prod. 1. p. 482 ; Spr. syst. 8. p.825 
Wall.! L. n. 1127 ; Wight! cat. n. 230.— Rheed. Mal. 4. t. 61. 
+* 231. (3) S. macrophylla (Ventn.:) leaves roundish-cordate, entire, 
thick, under side tomentose: carpels ovate, quite glabrous within, 2-seeded. 
—DC. prod. 1. p. 483; Spr. syst. 3. p. 82. Most probably from what were 
formerly the French possessions in the Peninsula. 
A species involved in great doubt, and perhaps a mere variety of the fol- 
owing. ; 
232. (4) S. populifolia (Roxb.:) leaves roundish-cordate, acuminated, 
entire, membranaceous, glabrous: racemes axillary, peduncled, branched, 
shorter than the leaves: calyx-segments linear, elongated, revolute, obtuse + 
ovarium stalked ; ovules numerous in each cell: carpels ovate, ventricose, 
terminated by a very obtuse cultriform (like a pruning-knife) wing, long- 
stalked, glabrous, villous within.— Rozb. hort. Bengh. p. 50; Wall. pl. Asiat. 
rar. 1. p. 3. t.3; L. n. 1128.—8. populifolia, 6. DC. prod. 1. p. 483.—— 
ee: Heyne. i $ 
allich has pointed out that De Candolle’s var. £, is a distinct ies, . 
which he proposes to call S. Candollii. We have ses seen either. wih 
s : i 
p. 99 iaa species of Sterculta "ined es surprig that the figure i Sane anota a), ud the 
name Cola, by which it is known to the Negroes, had not suggested inatas | 
Beauv., like which it is a native of Africa: it appears to be S. macrocarpa, nee paeem T 
