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what occurs in Eusterculia? a species of the tropical regions of Asia, 

 Africa, and America. In Firmiania* of which three or four species 

 belong to the old Continent, the seed is the same, with an embryo 

 more or less oblique (figs. 86, 87) ; but the carpels are open and 

 patulous even before maturity, so that they look like leaves, upon 

 the ecVes of which a small 



o 



number of Seeds are in- Sterculia (Firmiana) platanifolia. 



serted (fig. 85). The same 

 phenomenon is produced 

 in Scaphium, 3 consisting 

 of Indian and Javanese 

 species whose seeds, often 

 solitary on each patulous 

 carpel, occupy the more 

 or less concave lower part. 

 But the seed is com- 

 pletely anatropous ; so 

 that the embryo turns 

 its radicle to the side of 

 the hilum. It has the 

 same direction in the 

 Br aclnj chitons* Australian species, whose organization is like that of 

 Eusterculia, but in which the seeds are adherent to the bottom of the 

 endocarp. Finally in 8. alata? an Indian species of which the genus 

 Pterygoid has been made, the flowers and fruit are those oi Eusterculia ; 

 but the anatropous seeds are surmounted by a narrow wing giving 



Fig. 86. 

 Seed (f). 



Fig. 85. 

 Fruit (J). 



Fig. 87. 



Longitudinal section 



of seed. 



1 Schott et Endl., Meletem., 32. — Clom- 

 panus Rumph., Herb. Amboin., iii. t. 107. — 



Cavalam Rumph., op. cit., i. t. 49. — Balanghas 

 Buem., Fl. Zeyl., 84. — Astrodendron Dennst., 

 Sort. Malab., iv. 62. — Theodoria Nec, Mem., 

 n. 1048. — Triphaca Louk., Fl. Cochinch., 708. 

 — Ivira Atjbl., G-uian., ii. 694, t. 279. — South- 

 wellia Salisb., Far. Fond., t. 69. — Chichcea 

 Pbesl, Eel. HcenJc., ii. 140. — Mateaxia Velloz., 

 Fl. Flum., ix. t. 95. 



2 Mabsigl., ex Schott, Melet., 33. — R. Be., 

 in Ben. PI. Jav. Ear., 235. — Erythropsis 

 Linbl., in Bot. Beg., sub n. 1236. — ? Carpo- 

 iphyllum Miq., Fl. Ind.-Bat., Suppl., i. 401. 



3 Schott, loc. cit., 33. — Pterocymbium R. Be., 

 loc. cit., 219, t. 45. The number of stamens may 

 decline to eight or ten. 



4 Schott, loc. cit., 34. — R. Be., loc. cit., 

 234. — Fcecilodermis Schott, loc. cit., 33. — 

 TricJtosiphon Schott, loc. cit., 34. — Delabechea 

 Lindl., in Mitch. Trop. Austral., 155. The 

 Hildegardia (Schott, Melet., 33), genus pro- 

 posed for the S. populifolia Wall. {PI. As. 

 Ear., i. t. 3), because the carpels are said to be 

 winged (while they become only more or less 

 thin above towards the edges), may be connected 

 with this section, if, as we are assured, the seeds 

 are anatropous; if not, they can be connected 

 with Fusterculia. 



5 Roxb., PI. Coromand., iii. 84, t. 287. 



6 Schott et Endl., Melet., 32.— Endl., Gen., 

 n. 5321. 



