624 PLANTS JAVANICvE RARIORES. 



simple and compound leaves should in this tribe be uncon- 

 nected with other characters, and the very few plants in 

 which compound leaves occur differ widely from each other 

 in the form of their flowers or direction of their segments. 



Sterculie^. 



Desc. Tribus. — Flores diclines, monoici, Masculi cum 

 rudimento, saepius minuto et antheris occultato, pistilli : 

 raro stigmatibus ovulisque fere ut in femineis. Feminei 

 antheris manifestis saepe donatis polline sed semper efFceto. 

 Calyx monophyllus, 5-fidus, nunc 5-partitus, raro 4- v. 

 6-fidus, aequalis, coloratus ; aestivatione valvata rarissime 

 induplicata; deciduus, quandoque marcescens. Corolla 

 nulla. Gynostemium, columna genitalia sustinens, calyce 

 brevius v. longius raro abbreviatum fere nullum, in cujus 

 apice AntJierce subsessiles quindecim, nunc decern, quan- 

 doque viginti (raro quinque) urceolum abbreviatum cyathi- 

 formem rarissime tubulosum terminantes, in capitulum 

 inordinatim congestae, v. in fasciculos quinque cum ovariis 

 alternantes polyadelphae (nunc dum decern v. quinque, 

 saepius in serie simplici dispositae) ; biloculares, loculis dis- 

 tinctis, parallelis (raro divaricatis). Pollen simplex, laeve, 

 sphaeroideum. Ovaria 5, raro 4 v. 6 (rarissime 10 — 12), 

 leviter cohaerentia, polysperma (nunc tetra- v. disperma, 

 raro monosperma). Ovida angulo interno ovarii, dum inde- 

 226] finita duplici raro quadruplici serie, inserta. Styli tot 

 quot ovaria, coaliti v. arete approximate et tunc saepe arete 

 deflexi (nunc ad basin fere clistincti, quandoque nulli). 

 Stigmata in unicum subcapitatum quinquelobum cohaerentia, 

 v. distincta subcylindracea indivisa. Pericarpia : Folliculi 

 coriacei v. lignei (raro submembranacei) hand ante maturi- 

 tatem seminum dehiscentes (in nonnullis in quibus ovula 

 definita (2 v. 4) cito post faecundationem aperientes, foliacei) 

 (raro clausi, nucamentacei). Semina aptera rarissime apice 

 alata), umbilico saepe omnino nudo, quandoque strophiola 

 parva, rarissime si unquam ? arillo carnoso incompleto ? 

 aucto. Integumentum triplex (in exalbuminosis simplex : 



