GENERA AND SPECIES. 
ORDER STERCULIACEAE. 
1. Petals flat longer than the calyx. 
Stamens 5, free, opposite the petals; anthers with bifid 
apices ; ovary 5-celled ; embryo curved 
Stamens 5, united at the Ai no staminodia ; ovary 
l-celled . : ? ia 
Stamens 5, aaieoa into a cup, 5 darned ovary 
5-celled . 
IL. Petals dilated and inflexed at the base, nar- 
rowed at the summit. 
Stamens 5, scarcely united at the base, with inter- 
vening staminodia; fruit 5-valved ... 
11. Petals wanting; or small and _ scale-like, 
shorter than the calyx. 
Flowers unisexual, petals 0, stamens 15, inserted on a 
column ; fruit of distinct follicular fruitlets; floral 
bracts 0. 
Flowers ieewual: geanterat: 5, ahauie Rae tes peeraiie 
with sepals. 
Anthers opening outwards by parallel slits. 
Capsule membranous; calyx enlarged after 
flowering, thin, coloured ; ae and floral 
bracts none 
Capsule woody ; calyx strongly » nibbbed 3 petal 
5; floral bracts 1-3... 
Anthers opening in Larisa’ pores ; ; petals 0, or 
very small; floral bracts 3; stamens 5. 
Calyx divided to the middle, enlarged and 
coloured after flowering, prominently ribbed ; 
stipules present... 
Calyx divided almost to the ie: splidet en- 
larging, many-veined at the base ; stipules 
none. 
Hermannia. 
Herb; leaves ovate, crenate, stalked; flowers blue 
solitary ... 
Waltheria. 
A small undershrub; flowers small yellow in dense 
heads 
Melhania. 
A slender velvety-tomentose shrub ; De rain i 
low 
Hermannia 
Waltheria 
Melhania 
Commerconia 
Brachyechiton 
Seringia 
Hannafordia 
Thomasia 
Lasiopetalum 
Gilesii 
Indica 
incana 
