376 xxvn. STERCULIACE^:. (Maxwell T. Masters.) [Gua~nma. 



beneath, base 5-7-nerved ; petiole short. Flowers numerous, yellow, in terminal and 

 axillary panicles, which are twice the length of the leaves. Flower-bud* globose. 

 Culy.i- liin = j ft j)e!l-8haped, stellate-hairy. Sepals ultimately reflexetl. Petals exceeding 

 the caXfTtTAntlters concealed in the hood of the petals. Capsule. 1 in., oblong, obtuse, 

 covered with -obtuse black tubercles. 



15. BUETTNERIA, Linn. 



Herbs, trees orshrubs, often climbers, frequently prickly. Foliage various. 

 Flowers minute, in repeatedly branched axillary or terminal umbellate 

 cymes. Sepals 5, connate at the base. Petals 5, claw concave, limb with a 

 long strap-shaped 2-fid appendage. .s'/V//?, /<.< 10, connate below into a mem- 

 branous tube, bearing above 5 fertile stamens opposite the petals, and 

 5 staminodes opposite the sepals : anthers 2-lobed, extrorse. Ovary 

 sessile, 5-celled ; cells opposite the petals, 2-ovuled ; style entire or 5-fid. 

 lobose, spiny, septicidally ">-valvrd. valves breaking away from 

 lls 



a central column, cells 1-seeded. >'"-/ ascending, exalbmniiums ; coty- 

 ledons folded around the superior radicle, plumule lobed. DISTRIB. About 

 45 species, mostly natives ol tropical America, a few are Asiatic, and one 

 African. 



* Leaves usually longer than broad, generally simple. 



1. B. herbacea, /,' /.//.. Cor. 1*1. i. t. L'l) ; /'/. fn>l. i. 619; herbaceous, 

 unarmed, leaves glabrous ovate acuminate toothed paler beneath; capsule 

 covered with small subulate prickles. \V<iH. < '(. ll-lii; M'. <(' A. /'/'//-. 

 i. 65 ; ]Yi<jht /<: t488j M//:. <( '//\x-. /'/. Jibuti,. 23. Commer.sonia her- 

 bacea, G. Don. Gen. Syst. i. ~>-i?>. 



WESTERN PENINSULA; not uncommon in the Carnatic, Orissa, and Concan. 



Stem herbaceous, unarmed . leaves l^-S^ by f in., base o>rdate or rounded, 3-5- 

 nerved, nerves not glandular; petiole & in. >Y//.///<x linear, equalling the petiole. 

 Inflorescence longer than the adjoining leaf, tic/ mix linear-lanceolate, r-llex<-d. Limit 

 I'ftals subulate, as long as tin; sepals, puberaloofl, Fertile jiUinitnts very short; 

 ovate. /-'rait the >!/ of a iea, , r >-lnlp.-d. 



2. B. crenulata, Wall. Cat. 1150; a tree, branches unarmed, leaves 



glabrous elliptic acuminate, capsule globose glabrous covered with long 

 linear-lanceolate spines. B. polyaeantha, WaU. Cut. 1151 ? B. catalpifolia, 

 Wall, Cat. 1152? B. echinata, !IW/. Cut. 1149? 



NII-AI,, WnUirh: liiuM.v, at Attran and Salu.-n, H'Mtrh; PEGU, M'Clclland. 



Leaves 4-5 by 2-3 in., coriaceous, leaves 5-7-nerved, rounded ; petiole 2 in., thickened 

 at both ends. Peduncle* short, thinly stellate-hairy, pedicels A-;,' in., jointed in the 

 middle. Bracteolex equalling the pedicels, persistent, lanceolate. Plotter hm?* deltoid, 

 5-angular, pilose. Flowers % in. diam. Petal* stalked, limb cordate with two rounded 

 lobes, apex linear. Om/-// ovoid, style short. C"/snL .1 in. diam. The above synonyms 

 must be received with hesitation, the materials being too imperfect to allow of satisfac- 

 tory determination. 



3. B. Jackiana, WaU. in Roxb. Fl Ind. (ed. Carey] ii. 386 ; shrubby, 

 unarmed, leaves elliptic acuminate scabrid above, stetiate hairy beneath, 

 nerves pilose, capsule globose covered with straight-subulate spines. Wall. 

 Cat. 1147. 



PEN A NO, Jack, &c. 



A climbing shrub; herbaceous portions pilose and downy. Leaves 3-5 by 1^-2^ in., 

 entire or minutely serrated, base rounded; petiole f in. pilose. Panicles axillary, much 

 shorter than the leaves, many-flowered ; pedicels capillary, stellate-hairy. Sepals ^ in., 

 deltoid acuminate, spreading. Petals shorter than the sepals. Capsule 1 in. diam., 

 glabrous, 5-lobed. /Seeds black. 



