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STERCULIACE^E. II. TRIPHACA. III. REEVESIA. IV. HERETIERA. BYTTNERIACE^E. 



those of the stove species require a moist heat. The seeds are 

 difficult to import, therefore they should be sown in boxes, and 

 the plants raised before they are sent off from the places of their 

 natural growth. 



II. TRI'PHACA (from rpeig, Ireis, three, and 0a/cr/, phake, 

 a lentil ; in allusion to the three carpels.) Lour. coch. 577. D.C. 

 prod. 1. p. 483. 



LIN. SYST. Monoe'cia, Monadelphia. Flowers monoecious. 

 Calyx 5-cleft. Petals none. Stamens in the male flower 15, 

 monadelphous. Style one in the female flower, crowned by a 

 trifid stigma. Carpels 3, legume-shaped, inflated, acuminated, 

 tomentose, many-seeded. Seeds 4-5, oblong-ovate. 



1 T. AFRICA'NA (Lour. 1. c.) ^ S. Native on the eastern 

 coast of Africa on the Mozambique coast. Leaves on long 

 stalks, cordate, quite entire. Cymes lateral and terminal. 

 Flowers yellow. Perhaps a species of Sterculia. 



African Triphaca. Tree 40 feet. 



Cult. This tree will thrive well in a mixture of loam and 

 peat, and ripened cuttings, not deprived of their leaves, will root 

 freely in sand under a hand-glass, in a moist heat. 



III. REEVE'SIA (in honour of John Reeves, F. L. S., 

 now resident at Canton, from whose exertions the botany of 

 China has received material assistance, and to whom the British 

 gardens are indebted for many of the fairest ornaments they 

 contain). Lindl. bot. reg. 1236. 



LIN. SYST. Monadelphia, Dodecdndria. Calyx campanulate, 

 5-toothed, imbricate in aestivation, tomentose. Petals 5, un- 

 guiculate, convolute in aestivation. Stamens joined into a long 

 filiform tube. Anthers 15, sessile, collected into a little head, 

 2-celled, bursting lengthwise. Ovary sessile, within the anther- 

 iferous head. Capsule stipitate, woody, obovate, 5-angled, 5- 

 celled, 5-valved, without any central axis. Seeds 2 in each 

 cell, winged at the base. A tree with alternate, exstipulate, 

 lanceolate, acuminated, smooth, entire leaves, with the petioles 

 jointed at the top, and compound, terminal, or axillary racemes 

 of white flowers. This tree joins the Sterculiacece with Byftneri- 

 acece. It agrees with Sterculia in the flowers, but with Ptero- 

 spermum in the seeds. 



1 R. THYRSOI'DEA (Lindl. bot. reg. 1236.) T? . G. Native 

 of China. 



Thyrse-like-Aowered Reevesia. Fl. Jan. Clt. 1824. Tree 

 20 feet. 



Cult. This tree will require to be propagated and cultivated 

 in the same manner as that recommended for the green-house 

 species of Sterculia. 



IV. HERETIERA (in honour of Charles Louis L. Heretier 

 de Brutelle, a celebrated French botanist, died in 1800, author 

 of many botanical works,) Dry. in Ait. hort. kew. 3. p. 546. 



D. C. prod. 1. p. 484. Balanopteris, Gaert. fruct. 2. p. 94 



Samandura, Lin. fl. zeyl. no. 433. 



LIN. SYST. Monoecia, Monadelphia. Flowers monoecious. 

 Calyx 5-toothed. Stamens in male flowers 5-10, with the fila- 

 ments joined into a tube ; anthers sessile on the top of the tube. 

 Anthers in the female flowers 10, sessile, 2 between each carpel. 

 Carpels 5, 1 -styled, containing few ovulae, at length drupaceous, 

 coriaceous, with a winged keel, indehiscent, 1-seeded from 

 abortion. Albumen none. Embryo very thick, with fleshy 

 unequal cotyledons, and an ovate, acuminated, radicle. Plumule 

 2-leaved. Trees with simple, alternate, lepidoted, entire leaves, 

 and axillary panicles of small, red flowers. 



1 H. LITTORA'LIS (Ait. hort. kew, 1. c.) leaves oval-oblong, 

 rounded at the base, coriaceous, silvery beneath ; carpels marked 

 lengthwise with a nerve above. Jj . S. Native of the Philip- 

 pine islands, Moluccas, Java, &c. Rheed. mal. 6.t. 21. Rumph. 

 amb. 3. t. 63. Balanopteris Tothila, Gaert. fruct. 2. t. 99. Leaves 

 large, coriaceous. Flowers small, reddish. 



Shore Looking-glass Plant. Clt. 1788. Tree 20 feet. 



2 H. FO'MAS (Willd. spec. 4. p. 971.) leaves reticulately vein- 

 ed beneath. Jj . S. Native of the East Indies on the banks of 

 rivers in the kingdom of Ava, where it is called Fomas. Syms. 

 itin. ed. gall. 3. p. 100. t. 28. Leaves silvery beneath. 



Fomas Looking-glass Plant. Tree 20 feet. 



3 H. MI'NOR (Lam. diet. 3. p. 229.) carpels with a longitudinal 

 furrow above. Jj . S. Native of the Mauritius, where it is 

 probably cultivated. Balanopteris minor, Gaert. fruct. 2. t. 98. 

 f. 2. This is probably the same as H. Fomas. 



Smaller Looking-glass Plant. Clt. 1824. Tree 14 feet. 



Cult. These trees thrive well in sandy loam, or a mixture 

 of loam and peat. Large ripened cuttings root freely in sand 

 under a hand-glass, in a moist heat. Trees with fine large 

 foliage. Seeds do not retain their vegetative powers long. 



ORDER XXXIII. BYTTNERIA'CE^ (plants agreeing with 

 Byttneria in some important characters.) Brown congo, Kunth, 

 diss. malv. p. 6. nov. gen. amer. 5. p. 309. Hermanniaceae, 

 Vent. 



Calyx sometimes naked (f. 92. a. f. 88. 6.), sometimes girded 

 by an involucre (f. 93. 6.). Sepals more or less connected at 

 the base (f. 92. a. f. 93. a. f. 94. a.), constantly valvate in 

 aestivation. Petals 5, hypogynous, alternating with the sepals 

 (f. 93. c.), convolute in aestivation, of various forms, rarely un- 

 equal or wanting (f. 90. c.). Stamens equal in number to the 

 sepals or petals (f. 91. _/.), or double triple, or multiple, that num- 

 ber (f. 92. d. f. 93. d.\ filaments monadelphous (f. 92. d. f. 93. 

 e.~), or variously divided at the top (f. 92. c. f. 89. A.), some of 

 them are sometimes sterile (f. 92. d.); anthers 2-celled (f. 92. c.), 

 behind. Carpels 5 (f. 88. d. f. 89. g. f. 91. d. f. 92. e. f. 

 93. /(.), joined into one ovary, crowned by as many distinct or 

 connected (f. 92. g. f. 93. g.) styles. Albumen oily or fleshy, 

 rarely wanting. Embryo straight, with an inferior radicle, and 

 leafy, flat, or plaited cotyledons, or they convolute around the. 

 plumule, but they are sometimes very thick in the exalbumenous 

 seeds. This order differs from Malvaceae, Bombacece, Tiliacece, 

 and Eleoc&rpeee, with which it agrees in habit, in the valvate 

 aestivation of the calyx, and the convolute aestivation of the 

 corolla : from Malvaceae and Bombdcece in the anthers being 2- 

 celled, not 1-celled, as in those orders; from Tiliacece and Eleo- 

 cdrpece in the filaments being monadelphous, and from Stercu- 

 liacece in the carpels being connected into one fruit, not distinct, 

 as in that order. It is composed of trees and shrubs, usually natives 

 within the tropics ; some few are to be found in the north and 

 south of Africa, and a few in the north of Asia. They are 

 furnished with simple lobed or toothed stipulate leaves, and 

 usually with beautiful flowers. Astrapeea, and some genera 

 related to it, are amongst the most elegant plants in the world. 

 The flowers of a species of Pentapetes, called by the Indians 

 Machucunha, give out a mucilaginous refrigerent juice, which is 

 employed in gonorrhoea. Guazuma idmifolia has its fruit filled 



