XXVI. MALVACEA. 
I. STERCULIA SERIES. 
Sterculia (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. 

Fia. 78. 
Floriferous branch (1). 
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.—Apans., Fam. des Pl, Suppl. v. 246: ZU., t. 736.—Turp., in Dict. 
ii. 357.—J., Gen., 278.—Lamk., Dict., vii. 428; Se. Nat., Atl., t. 142, 143.—CAv., Diss., v. 284. 
