ByTTNERIA. BYTTNERIACEJE. CC 
der with a stellate white tomentum.— DC. prod. 1. p. 485 ; Wight! cat. n. 235. 
—G. ulmifolia, Wall.! L. n. 1141.—Bubroma tomentosum, Spr. syst. 3. p.332. 
VI. ABROMA. Linn.. Lam. ill. t. 636, 637 ; G«ertn. fr. t. 64. 
Calyx 5-partite. Petals 5, saccate at the base, with a large oblong deci- 
. duóus unguiculate appendage. Stamens connected into an urceolus at the 
base ; 5 sterile, petaloid, curved outwards; fertile ones united into 5 trifid 
filaments, each bearing 3 anthers. Styles 5. Capsule ovoid, 5-celled, with 
5 prominent angles; each cell dehiscing above, many-seeded. Seeds with 
an arillus. Albumen fleshy, transversely flexuose.—$mall trees, with stellate 
pubescence. Leaves cordate, angled or lobed. 
* 241. (1) A. augusta (Linn.:) branches velvety, not muricated; adult 
leaves ovate-oblong, acuminated, serrulated, under side tomentose or more 
or less scabrous with stellate pubescence; lower leaves roundish-cordate, — 
3-5-angled ; wings of the fruit truncated at the apex, with the exterior angle 
somewhat acute.— DC. prod. 1. p. 485; Spr. syst. 3. p. 333; Roxb. in E. I. 
C. mus, tab. 415 ; Wall. L. n. 1142.—A. angulata, Lam. ill. t. 636, 637.—4. 
eeleri, Koen. Interior of the Peninsula: Roxburgh. 
VII. BYTTNERIA. Lef.; Linn. 
Calyx 5-sepaled, deciduous. Petals 5, at the base concave connivent, 
produced upwards into a kind of strap-like appendage. Stamens united into a 
5-cleft urceolus: anthers 5, solitary, nearly sessile between the sterile stamens 
(lobes of the urceolus), opposite to the petals. Ovarium 5-celled: ovules 2 
in each cell. Style 1. Stigma obsoletely 5-lobed. Capsule 5-coccous, mu- 
ricate and slightly echinate: cocci 1-seeded, dehiscing by the inner angle.— 
Shrubs or rarely herbaceous plants, usually priekly. Leaves entire. Peduncles 
1-flowered, axillary, two or more together; or the flowers in pedunculate 
umbels, axillary or opposite to the leaves. 
The gen ingi istinct: in it the sterile stamens are 
scarcely a all iter gari de wether esie j petaloid, instead of being reduced 
to mere lobes of an urceolus : the fertile ones are elongated. ` Asclepias armata (Spr. 
| Syst. 1. p. 849) is Bytineria carthagenensis, Jacq. 
242. (1) B. herbacea (Roxb.:) stem herbaceous, without prickles; leaves 
not glandular, toothed, ovate, acuminated, cordate, rounded or cuneate at 
the base : sepals linear-lanceolate, reflexed: ligulate production of the petals 
subulate, erect, about as long as the calyx: free part of the antheriferous fila- 
ments very short, recurved: lobes of the urceolus (sterile stamens) ovate.— 
Roxb. Cor. 1. t.29; Roxb. fl. Ind. 1. p. 619; Roxb. et Wall. fl. Ind. 2. p. 382; 
DC. prod. 1. p. 486 (charac. bad); Spr. syst. 1. p. 90; Wall. L. n. 1146 ; Wight ! 
eat. n. 237.—Commersonia herbacea, G. Don.—Circars ; Roxburgh. Vel- 
lore ; Wight. 
TRIBE IV.—HERMANNIE;K. Kunth. 
Flowers unisexual. Calyx 5-lobed, persistent, either naked or with an involucel. 
Petals 5, spirally twisted in estivation. Stamens 5, monadelphous, all fertile, oppo- 
site to the Pu. Carpels united into a single fruit. Albumen between fleshy and 
Shruls "pim included : radiele inferior, ovate: cotyledons flat, leafy, s 
dore or herbaceous plants. Leaves alternate, simple, or variously cut. Stipules 
2, adherin to the petioles. Peduncles axillary, or opposite to the leaves, or ter- 
minal, with 1, 3, or many flowers, which are usually in umbels. 
VIII. RIEDLEIA. Fentn. 
Calyx 5-cleft, sometimes with 3 bracteoles. Petals 5, equal, attached by 
their claws to the staminal tube. Stamens 5, united at the base and some- 
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