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9. Abroma, Jacq. 



Trees or shriibs. Leaves cordate, ovate-oblong, serrulate, sometimes 

 angled. Peduncles opposite the leaves, few-flowered. Sepals 5, connate 

 near the base. Petals 5, purplish, concave below, prolonged above into 

 a laro-e spoon-shaped lamina. Staminal-cup of 5 fertile and as many- 

 sterile divisions ; fertile filaments opposite the petals, 8-antheriferous ; 

 anthers 2-lobed, lobes divergent. Staminodes longer than the fertile 

 filaments, obtuse. Ovary sessile, pyramidal, 5-lobed ; cells raany-ovuled, 

 styles 5. Capsule membranous, 5-angled, 5-winged, truncate at the 

 apex, septicidally 5-valved, valves villous at the edges. Seeds numer- 

 ous albuminous ; embr'yo straight, cotyledons flat, cordate, radicle next 

 the hilum, — Distrib. 2 or 3 species, natives of Tropical Asia. 



1. A. AUGUSTA, Linn. fil. Suppl. 341. A pubescent large shrub or 

 small tree : young branches pale. Leaves 5 to 7- nerved at the base, 

 3-5 to 6 in. long and 3 to 5 in. broad ; petiole 175 to 25 in., the upper 

 much smaller and narrower. Stipules Uneai", deciduous. Flowers 2 in. 

 in diam., peduncles 1*5 in., extra-axillary. Sepals 1 in. long, lanceolate, 

 free to nearly the base. Petals Ioniser than the sepals, imbricate, 

 deciduous. Capsule 1"5 to 2 in. in diam., glabrous or nearly so when ripe, 

 DC. Prod. i. 485 ; Mast, in Hook. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 375; Bl. Bijdr. 85; 

 Roxb. Hort. Beng. 50; Fl. Ind. iii. 156 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 183; 

 Beddome Flor. Sylvat. Anal. Gen. t. 5 ; W. & A. Prodr. i. 65 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 1142. A. angulata, Lam. 111. 636. A. Wheeleri, Retz. Obs. v. 27; 

 Willd. Sp. PI. iii. 1425. A. fastuosum, Goertn. Fruct. i. 307, t. 64. 



In all the Provinces at low elevations : usually near cultivation. 

 Distrib. Malayan Archipelago, Philippines, China, Brit. India. 



The bark yields a stout fibre- 



10. BUETTNERIA, Linn. 



Erect climbing or tomentose shrubs, herbs, or trees ; sometimes 

 prickly. Leaves various. Flotvers minute, in axillary or terminal much- 

 branched, umbellate cymes. Sepals 5, slightly connate near the base. 

 Petals 5, unguiculate, concave, iiiflexed, with 2 small lateral lobes, and 

 a lono- sub-terminal simple linear or narrowly lanceolate appendage. 

 Staminal tube with 5 broad truncate or emarginate teeth and, between 

 them five 2-celled extrorse anthers (month entire in B. Curtisii). Ovary 

 sessile, 5-celled, the cells 2-ovulate. Style entire, 5-fid. Capsule glo- 

 bose, echinate, septicidaly 5-valved, the cells 1-seeded. Seed ascending, 

 exalbuminous: cotyledons folded round the radicle. Distrib. About 

 48 species, mostly tropical American : a few tropical Asiatic and one 

 African. 



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