Leptonydria.'] STERCULIACEAE. Ill 



anther-cells parallel. Ovary sessile, 1-celled; ovules 2, ascend- 

 ing ; style excentric ; stigma club-shaped. Fruit a 2-valved, 

 1-seeded capsule. Seed ascending ; albumen copious ; embryo 

 straight; cotyledons flat. 



WALTHERIA INDICA, Linn. ; F. B. I. i. 374 ; W. & A. 67. 



An undershrub with much soft pubescence, ovate serrate 

 leaves and small yellow flowers in globose axillary clusters. 

 All Districts, common on roadsides, in waste places, and in 

 forest undergrowth. 



10. Guazuma, Plum. 



A tree. Leaves simple, tomentose. Flowers in axillary cymes. 

 Sepals 5, connate below. Petals 5, concave at the base, prolonged 

 above into 2 narrow strap-shaped processes. Stamens 10, connate 

 into a tube below, divided above into 5 3-anthered filaments 

 alternating with 5 lanceolate staminodes. Ovary sessile, 5-lobed, 

 5-celled ; styles more or less connate; ovules many in each cell. 

 Fruit globular, woody, tubercled, many-seeded. Seeds albu- 

 minous, cotyledons folded. 



GUAZUMA TOMENTOSA, Kunth.; F. B. I. i. 375; Wt. 111. t. 31; 



W. & A. 64 ; Bedd. Fl. t. 107. 



A small tree with obliquely cordate leaves and yellow flowers 

 in large terminal and axillary panicles. Fruit 5-celled, 

 resembling a small ripe mulberry in shape, size, and colour. 

 An introduced tree, often found run wild, usually in the 

 vicinity of towns and villages, indigenous in tropical 

 America. 



11. Leptonychia, Turcz. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves simple, entire. Flowers axillary, 

 cymose. Sepals 5, valvate, distinct nearly to the base. Petals 

 5, valvate, short, orbicular, concave. Staminal tube short, 

 bearing an outer series of 10-15 ligulate staminodes, a middle 

 one of 10 fertile stamens and an inner one of 5 short fleshy 

 staminodes. Ovary sessile, with 3-6 many-ovuled cells; style 

 single, lobed at the top. Capsule (1-) 2-3-celled, dehiscing septi- 

 cidally or loculicidally or both, or irregularly. Seeds black, with 

 an orange-coloured fleshy aril. 



