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4. Sterculia Cordifolia; Heart-leaved Sterculia. Leaves 

 cordate, obsoletely three-lobed ; capsules acuminate, tomen- 

 tose ; stem arborescent. Native of Senegal. 



5. Sterculia Colorata ; Coral-flowered Sterculia. Leaves 

 five-lobed ; lobes acuminate ; calices cylindric club-shaped ; 

 capsules oblong, smooth, coloured. Trunk erect, growing to 

 a very great size, with smooth greyish branches, leafy at the 

 end. This tree casts its leaves during the cold season. It 

 flowers in April, and then appears as if entirely covered with 

 fine ramifications of red coral : soon afterwards the leaves 

 make their appearance. Native of the mountainous parts of 

 the Rajamundry Circar; called Karaka by the Telingas. 



6. Sterculia Urens; Stinging Sterculia. Leaves five-lobed ; 

 lobes acuminate; calices bell-shaped; capsules ovate, hispid. 

 Trunk erect, very straight, with the top large and shady. 

 This very large tree is chiefly a native of the mountainous 

 countries of the coast of Coromandel : it casts the leaves about 

 the end of the wet season, and flowers during the cold season ; 

 the leaves come out with the fruit about the beginning of the 

 hot season. The wood is soft and spungy; towards the centre 

 of the large trees it is reddish. It seems to be applied to little 

 use except to make Hindoo-guitars. The water in which green 

 branches were kept for examination, became thick like a clear 

 glutinous jelly. The bark is exceedingly astringent, and 

 tinges the saliva reddish. The seeds are roasted to be eaten 

 by the natives, and taste very like parched peas. 



7. Sterculia Platanifolia ; Plane-leaved Slerculia. Leaves 



Ealmate, five-lobed ; calices wheel-shaped, reflexed. In Eng- 

 ind this is a hardy green-house plant, flowering in July; but 

 in its native soil is said to be a very lofty tree. Native of 

 Japan and China. 



8. Sterculia Foetida ; Fetid Sterculia. Leaves digitate. 

 This is a middle-sized tree, with spreading unarmed branches ; 

 flowers moncecous, fetid, in subterminating racemes. Native 

 of the East Indies and Cochin-china. The wood is pale, 

 lasting, and does not split; it is therefore very proper for the 

 turner, and being well varnished, makes handsome vases. It 

 has nothing of the ill smell which the flowers have. The 

 leaves, and especially the bark, are aperient, repellent, diu- 

 retic, and diaphoretic. The seeds are oily, and are not eaten 

 in Cochin-china, because they cause nausea and vertigo. 

 Ten other species of Sterculia have been described by botan- 

 ists; all natives of hot climates. 



Stilago; a genus of the class Gynandria, order Triandria, 

 or Dioecia, Diandria, or Triandria. GENERIC CHARACTER. 

 Calix : perianth one-leafed, hemispherical, almost entire, 

 three-lobed. Corolla : none. Stamina : filamenta three, 

 placed on the germen, spreading, longer than the calix. 

 Pistil : germen superior, roundish ; style cylindrical, perma- 

 nent, shorter than the stamina ; stigma warted. Pericarp: 

 drupe globular. Seed: nut globular. Observe. The male 

 and female are on separate trees. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. 

 Calix: one-leafed, pitcher-shaped. Corolla: none, female. 



Stigmas: sessile. Drupe: with a two-celled nut. The 



species are, 



1. Stilago Bunias. Leaves alternate, petioled, simple, 

 ovate-oblong, quite entire, smooth ; flowers small, scattered, 

 sessile ; spikes alternate, naked, very long. It flowers in 

 August; and is a native of the East Indies. 



2. Stilago Diandra. Leaves alternate, on short petioles, 

 nearly bifarious, or two-faced, oval, entire, smooth, from two 

 to four inches long, and from one to two broad ; stipules 

 lanceolate; flowers very small, approximated. The fruit 

 when ripe is eaten by the Hindoos, who also employ the 

 wood for various purposes. It is a large tree, native of the 

 mountainous parts of the cirrars, where it flowers in June. 



Stilbe; a genus of the class Polygamia, order Dioecia. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. Hermaphrodite. Calix: exterior 

 perianth three-leaved, setting asside the four exterior ones; 

 leaflets lanceolate, spreading, and mucronate. Interior pe- 

 rianth, one-leafed, five-toothed, cartilaginous, to be hardened. 

 Corolla: one-petalled, funnel-form; tube length of the calix; 

 border five-parted; parts linear. Stamina: filamenta four, 

 awl-shaped, placed on the throat, longer; antherse cordate, 

 obtuse. Pistil: germen superior, ovate; style filiform, length 

 of the stamina; stigma acute. Pericarp: none, but the inte- 

 rior calix inclosing the seed, hardening, deciduous. Seed: 

 one. Male, on a distinct individual. Calix: exterior as in 

 the hermaphrodite; interior none. Corolla: as in the herma- 

 phrodite, but the tube membranaceous. Stamina : as in the 

 hermaphrodite. Pericarp and Seed: none. Hermaphrodite. 

 Calix : exterior, three-leaved ; interior, five-toothed, carti- 

 laginous. Corolla: funnel-form, five-cleft. Stamina: four. 

 Seed: one, calyptred with the interior calix. Male, similar. 

 Calix: interior none. Fruit: none. ESSENTIAL CHARAC- 

 EER. Calix: inferior double, the outer of three leaves; inner 

 five-toothed, cartilaginous. Corolla: funnel-shaped. Cap- 

 sule: of one cell and one valve, separating entire from the 

 base. Seed: solitary. The species are, 



1. Stilbe Pinastra. Spikes hirsute; leaves in sixes, linear; 

 branches alternate, stiff, rugged with the remaining bases of 

 the leaves. Native of the Cape. 



2. Stilbe Ericoides. Spikes smooth ; leaves in fours, lan- 

 ceolate ; corollas even. Native of the Cape. 



3. Stilbe Cernua. Spikes drooping; leaves in fours. This 

 is very like the first species. Native of the Cape. 



Stillingia ; a genus of the class Monoecia, order Mona- 

 delphia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Male Flowers, digested 

 in an amentaceous spike. Calix: perianth many-flowered, 

 coriaceous, hemispherical, pitcher-shaped, quite entire, with 

 two goblet-shaped glands. Corolla: one-petalled, tubular, 

 funnel-form, widening gradually, much narrower than the 

 calix; mouth undivided, torn, ciliate. Stamina: filamenta 

 two, filiform, twice as long as the corolla, divaricating at the 

 top, very slightly united at the base; antherse twin, renifonn. 

 Female Flowers, few, at the base of the same spike. Calix: 

 perianth one-flowered ; the rest as in the males. Corolla: 

 superior. Pistil: germen roundish, between the calix and 

 corolla; style filiform; stigmas three, distinct, recurved. 

 Pericarp : capsule tricoccous, subturbinate, subtrigonal, 

 three-celled, surrounded at the base by the widened calix. 

 Seeds: solitary, oblong, subtrigonal, with a transverse scar 

 on the inner side. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. Male. Calix: 

 hemispherical, many-flowered. Corolla: tubular, erose. 

 Female. Calix : one-flowered, inferior. Corolla : tubu- 

 lar, superior. Style : trifid. Capsule : tricoccous. The 



species are, 



1. Stillingia Sylvatica. Leaves alternate, petioled, remote, 

 elliptic, serrulate, shining, spreading; spike or ament ter- 

 minating, sessile; flowers small, yellow. It is accounted a 

 specific in siphilis. Native of Carolina, in Pine woods. 



2. Stillingia Ligustrina. Stem shrubby; leaves lanceo- 

 late, tapering at each end, entire. Native of shady woods in 

 North Carolina and Georgia. 



Stipa; a genus of the class Triandria, order Digynia. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: glume one-flowered, two- 

 valved, lax, acuminate. Corolla : two-valved ; outer valve 

 terminated at the tip by a very long twisted awn, jointed at 

 the base, and straight; inner valve length of the outer, awn- 

 less, linear. Nectary two-leaved ; leaflets linear-lanceolate, 

 membranaceous, gibbous at their base. Stamina: filamenta 

 three, capillary; antheree linear. Pistil: germen oblong; 



