J44 MONADELPHIA DODECANDRIA. Sterculla. 



conica!, fi ve-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-valved. Seeds numerous, in one row, angular. 



STERCULIA. Schreh. gen. N. 828. 

 Monoecous or polygamous. Calif x inferior, five-parted. 

 CoroZ none. Column ot fructification and stammiferous tube, 

 various. Germs five, one-celled, many-seeded ; attachment 

 interior. Capsules leguminous, from one to five, distinct. 

 Seeds few. Embryo various, with or Avithout perisperm. 



]. S. Balanghas. Willd. ii. 872. 



Leaves oblong, entire, smooth. Panicles pendulous. Fol- 

 licles oval, villous. 



Chin. Pini-pho. 



Cavalum. Rheed. Mai ii. t. 49. 



Found in gardens about Calcutta, wliere it grows to be u 

 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. Flotcers numerous, 

 small, pendulous, fiesh-coloured, faintly fragrant. Male. 

 Calyx or corol, for there is but one, one-leaved, a little hairy, 

 campanulafe, five-parted; divisinns long', slender; margins 

 revolute, converging at the points, gaping w ide at the sides. 

 Filaments (column) .^ingle, from the bottom of the bell of 

 the corol, towards the apex recurved, crowded with anthers, 

 loo cro\\ded and minute to be distinctly counted. Herma- 

 phrodite Jlowers few, and on the same plant. Calyx or coi'ol 

 as in the male. Filaments many, but very short. Anthers 



