64 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



them the appearance of a samara. Thus defined 1 the genus Sterculia 

 is composed of trees/ often stately, with alternate petiolate leaves 

 accompanied by lateral stipules, simple, Jobed, or digitate. The 

 flowers are disposed in racemes, often axillary, with a simple or 

 more frequently a ramified axis, and bearing small cymes, the ter- 

 minal flowers being frequently female, the others male, and all 

 having generally an articulate pedicel. 



Tarrietia 3 has flowers nearly similar to those of Sterculia. Their 

 anthers placed upon a short stem are similarly arranged. But each 

 of their three or five carpels only encloses in its ovary a single 

 ascending anatropous ovule, with inferior and exterior micropyle ; 

 and the fruits are dry, indehiscent and surmounted by an elongated 

 wing. Two or three species of this genus are enumerated. One is 

 an Australian tree 4 with digitate trifoliate leaves covered with 

 squamose hairs. The others are Javanese, 5 glabrous with 3-5-foliate 

 leaves. All have numerous small polygamous flowers arranged in 

 much ramified racemes of cymes, axillary or lateral. 



The two genera Cola and Heritiera are very nearly connected with 

 Sterculia, and perhaps cannot be generically separated from it. 

 They both have seeds destitute of albumen. In Cola 6 the anthers 7 

 remain regularly arranged in a circle towards the apex of the general 

 column instead of being displaced to different heights as in Sterculia. 

 Half a dozen species 8 of Cola are known, all natives of tropical 



1. Fusterculia. fig. 1.— Endl., Gen., n. 5638. — B. H., Gen., 



2. Firmiana. 218, n. 2. — Argyrodendron F. Muell., Fragm., 



1 Sterculia loci.- ; o ;; 1*7*7 



r -< 3. Scaphium. 1. 2 ; ll. 177. 



sect. o. ^ Brachyckiton. * T. Argyrodendron Benth., Fl. Austral., 



\. 5. Pterygoid. i. 230. — Walp., Ann., vii. 421. — Argyrodendron 



• Cav., Diss., t. 141-145. — H. B. K., Nov. trifoliolalum F. Muell., loc. tit. 



Gen. et Spec, v. 299.— A. S. H., PI. Us. Bras., 6 Miq., Fl. Ind.-Bat., i. p. ii. 179; Suppl., 



t. 46.— Roxb., PI. Corom., t. 24, 25. — Wall., i. 401. 



PL As. Ear., i. t. 3, 59; ii. t. 127 ; Hi. t. 262. — 6 Batth., Pin., 507. — Schott et Endl., 



Wight, III., t. 30 ; Icon., t. 181, 364, 487. — Melet., 33. — R. Be., in Benn. PI. Jdv. Bar., 



Guill. et Perr., Fl. Sen. Tent., i. 79, t. 16. 236.— B. H., Gen., 218, n. 3.— Courtenia 



— A. Geat, in Amer. Fxpl. Exped., i. 185, t. 13 R. Be., loc. tit. — Bichy Lunan, Jam., i. 86. 



(Firmiana).— Miq., Fl. Ind.-Bat., i. p. ii. 177/ — ? Culhamia Forsk., Fl. Mg.-Arab., 96 (ex 



Suppl., i. 399. — Hart., Thes. Crp., t. 3. — Endl., Gen., 994, f.). — Lunanea DC, Prodr., 



Akdees., in Journ. Linn. Soe., v. Suppl., t. 2. — ii. 92. — Fdioardia Rafin., Sped., i. 158. — 



F. Muell., PI. Vict., t. Suppl. 5.— Miq., Fl. Siphoniopsis Kabst., PI. Columb., 139, t. 69. 



Ind.-Bat., i. 172. — Benth., Fl. Aurtral., i. 225. ' With parallel or superposed cells. 



—Mast., in Olio. Fl. Prop. Afr., i. 215.— 8 Guillem. et Peer., Fl. Sen. Tent., i. 81, 



H. Bn., in Adansonia, x. 179.— Bot. Beg., t. 15 (Sterculia).— Mast., in Olio. Fl. Prop. 



t. 1256, 1353— Walp., Sep., v. 97, 103; Ann., Afr., i. 220.— H. Bn., in Adansonia, x. 165.— 



ii. 159, 160; vii. 419. Walp., Bep., v. 106; Ann., vii. 421. 



3 Be., Bijdr., 227 ; in Bmnplda, iii. t. 172, 



