XXVI. MALVACEAE. 



I. STERCULIA SERIES. 



Stercidia} (figs. 78-87) is immediately distinguished in this group 

 by its independent carpels — a character not having here all the 

 importance that would at first appear, but which however has 



Sterculia carthagenensis. 



Fig. 78. 

 Floriferous branch (i). 



caused most botanists to make it the type of a particular family. 

 Tt has regular apetalous polygamous flowers. In those which are 



1 L., Gen., n. 1086.— Adans., Fam. des PL, Suppl., v. 216: III., t. 736.— Turp., in Diet. 

 ii. 357.— J., Gen., 278.— Lamk., Bid., vii. 428; So. Nat., Ail., t. 142, 143.— Cay., Diss., v. 284. 



