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hermaphrodite we may observe a gamosepalous calyx, often coloured, 
of variable form,’ more or less deeply cut into five’ divisions, 
Sterculia Balanghas. 

Fre. 79. 

Fie. 84. 
Female flower, 
long. sect. of sexual organs. 
valvate and of very diverse forms. 

Fra. 80. 

Fie. 83. 
Female flower, 
sexual organs (*). 

WE 
Fie, 81. 
Sexual organs of male flower (#)- 
A 

Fie. 82, 
Male flower, 
long. sect, of sexual organs, 
From the bottom of this 
perianth, smooth or thickened into a glandular disk, rises a column 

—DC., Prodr., i. 481.—ENDz. et SCHOTT, 
Meletem. (1832), 32-34.—R. Br., in Benn. Pl. 
Jav. Rar., 226.—ENDz., Gen., n. 5320 (part.).— 
B. H., Gen., 217, n. 1.—SCHNIZL., Lconogr., 
t. 210.—LEM. et DONE., Tr. Gén., 344.—Hoox. 
and Mast., Fl. of B. Ind., 354.—H. Bx. 
in Adansonia, x. 161 (incl. : Astrodendron 
Dennst., Balanghas BURM., Brachychiton 
Scuorr, Carpopyllum MiQ., Cavalam RUMPH., 
Cavallium Scuort, Chichea Presi, Clompanus 
Rumeu., Delabechea Lixvu., Erythropsis LInvt., 
Firmiana Marsiet., Hildegardia Scuorr, Ivira 
Auvst., Mateatia VELLOZ., Pecilodermis SCHOTT, 
Pterocymbium R, Br., Pterygota Scuorr, Sca- 
phium Scuorr, Southwellia Sarisz., Theo- 
doria Nucx., Trichosiphon Scnorr, Triphaca 
Lovr). 
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 they 
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, 
