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what occurs in Æwsterculia,' 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 edges of which a small 
number of seeds are in- 
serted (fig. 85). The same 
phenomenon is produced 
in Scaphium,’ 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 
Brachychitons Australian species, whose organization is like that of 
Lusterculia, but in which the seeds are adherent to the bottom of the 
endocarp. Finally in S. a/ata,’ an Indian species of which the genus 
Pterygota’ has been made, the flowers and fruit are those of Lusterculia ; 
but the anatropous seeds are surmounted by a narrow wing giving 
Sterculia (Firmiana) platanifolia. 

le 
Tre. 86, 
Seed (5). 

Fie. 85. 
Fruit (4). 

Longitudinal section 
of seed. 

1 Scuorr et Enprz., Meletem., 32.—Clom- 
panus Rumru., Herb, Amboin., iii. t. 107.— 
Cavalam RuMPH., op. cit., i. t. 49.— Balanghas 
Burm., Fl. Zeyl., 84.—Astrodendron DENNST., 
4 Scuorr, loc. cit., 34.—R. Br., loc. cit., 
234.— Pœcilodermis Scuorr, Loc, cit, 33.— 
Trichosiphon Scnorr, loc. cit., 34.— Delabechea 
Laxpz., in Mitch. Trop. Austral., 155. The 
Hort, Malab., iv. 62.—Theodoria NEC., Elem., 
n. 1048.—Triphaca Lour., Fl. Cochinch., 708. 
—TIvira AUBL., Guian., ii, 694, t. 279.—South- 
wellia Sauiss., Par. Lond., t. 69.—Chichea 
Prest, Rel. Henk., ii. 140.—Mateatia VELLOZ., 
Fil. Fiwm., ix. t. 95. 
2 Marsiet,, ex SCHOTT, Melet., 33.—R. Br. 
in Ben. Pl. Jav. Rar. 235.—Erythropsis 
Linvt., in Bot, Reg., sub n. 1236.—? Carpo- 
phullum M1q., Fl. Ind,-Bat., Suppl. i. 401. 
3 Scuort, loc. cit., 33.— Pterocymbium R. BR., 
loc. cit., 219, t. 45. The number of stamens may 
decline to eight or ten, 
Hildegardia (Scott, Melet., 33), genus pro- 
posed for the S. populifolia Wax. (Pl. As. 
Rar., 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 Æuslerculia. 
5 Roxs., Pl. Coromand., iii. 84, t. 287. 
5 Scnorr et ENDL., Melet., 32.—ENDL., Gen., 
n. 5321. 
