526 STERCULIACE. 
16, Long section of ovule, anatropous with two tegments 
and a À complete raphe. 
The fruit, like the flowers, seems to be rare at this season 
(October) at least; it is ob-obovate clavate, surrounded : 
at the base by the withered calyx corolla and stamens, . 
and is densely armed with conico-subulate, acute thorns, 
I have only seen small ones, the largest judging from . 
fragments would seen to be at least as large as a hen’s egg. 
Trilocular, by abortion of 1 cell, sometimes empty. Cells 
l-seeded ! Seeds oblong, cylindrical or flattened a little 
on the inner face, erecto-appense attached by a largish lon- 
gitudinal hilum to near the base of the cell, at this place 
the abortive ovule will be found. Arillus vascular very in- 
complete ; margin irregular. 
Raphe etc indistinct. The young albumen is so plentiful as to 
make me think that some will be found in the seed. 
 Cotyledons foliaceous, (radicle inferior) broad diameter 
parallel to the axis of the fruit. 
Has. Malacca. In sylvis densis vie Ayer Punnus et Rhim; 
also here and there in the forests about Ching. 
Cua. Flores ochroleuco-albidi, aspectu elegantes, specimen 
desiccata cano albida, vivent. foliis supra atro-viridibus. 
Antherz si plura pyxidibus quam sex, e duobus stamin- 
coalitis conflat. testatur filament interdum apice bifurcum : 
the increased size of the filament, and its venation. 
Oss, It may appear paradoxical to associate with Bomba- 
cee, a plant which has a plurality of petals, not ever 
being always multiples of the calyx, discrete stamina, an 
stamens either sterile, or with from 1 to 8-pyxidal anther- 
cells, each opening by a pore at the apex. d 
But great as the dissimilarities appear to be, they — 
to exist upon examination. : 
In the last edition (2nd) of Lindley’s Introd. to Nat. Orders 
Bombacez are included in Sterculiacez, one of which dis- 
tinctions is 2-celled anthers, and in the enumeration of Uf. 
more prominent marks ofthe tube. — ^ 
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