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hermaphrodite we may observe a gamosepalous calyx, often coloured, 

 of variable form, 1 more or less deeply cut into five 2 divisions, 



Sterculia Balanghas. 



Fig. 79. 

 Male flower (f ). 



Fig. 80. Fig. 81. 



Long. sect, of male flower. Sexual organs of male flower (^)- 



Fig. 84. 



Female flower, 

 long. sect, of sexual organs. 



Fig. 83. 



Female flower, 

 sexual organs (^). 



Fig. 82. 



Male flower, 



long. sect, of sexual organs. 



valvate and of very diverse forms. 3 From the bottom of this 

 perianth, smooth or thickened into a glandular disk, rises a column 



— DC, Prod)'., i. 481. — End!, et Schoxt, 

 Meletem. (1832), 32-34. — It. Be., in Benn. PI. 

 Jav. Ear., 226.— End!., Gen., n. 5320 (part.). — 

 B. H., Gen., 217, n. 1. — Schnizl., Iconogr., 

 t. 210.— Lem. et Dcne., Tr. Gen., 344.— Hook. 

 and Mast., Fl. of B. Ind., 354.— H. Bn„ 

 in Adansonia, x. 161 (incl. : Astrodendron 

 Dennst., Balanghas Buem., Brachychiton 

 Schott, Carpopyllum MiQ., Cavalam Rumph., 

 Cavallium Schott, Chicheea Pees!, Clompanus 

 Rumph., Delabechea Lindl., Frythropsis Lindl., 

 Firmiana Maesige., Hildegardia Schott, Ivira 

 Aebl., Mateatia Veeloz,, Paecilodermis Schott, 

 Pterocymbium R. Be., Pterygota Schott, Sca- 

 phium Schott, Southivellia Salisb., Theo- 



doria Neck., Trichosiphon Schott, TripJtaca 

 Lotje). 



1 Obovoid, campanulate, obconical or subin- 

 fundibuliform, sometimes hemispherical at the 

 base, with five divisions, forming in its upper 

 part a hemispherical, conical, or pyramidal cap. 



2 Rarely four or six. 



3 When they are narrow, pointed, a little 

 reduplicate, sometimes it happens that tbey 

 separate from each other below. At the same 

 time that their edges are reflexed, without 

 quitting each other, at the much tapering sum- 

 mits. They form thus a sort of conical cage, 

 across which the interior of the flower may be 

 seen. 



