64 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
them the appearance ofa samara. Thus defined' the genus Sferculia 
is composed of trees,’ often stately, with alternate petiolate leaves 
accompanied by lateral stipules, simple, lobed, 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. 
Tarrieti has flowers nearly similar to those of Sferculia. 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‘ with digitate trifoliate leaves covered with 
squamose hairs. The others are Javanese,’ 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 /eritiera are very nearly connected with 
Sterculia, and perhaps cannot be generically separated from it. 
They both have seeds destitute of albumen. In Co/a’ the anthers’ 
remain regularly arranged in a circle towards the apex of the general 
column instead of being displaced to different heights as in Sferculia. 
Half a dozen species* of Co/a are known, all natives of tropical 
. Eusterculia. 
. Firmiana. 
fig. 1—Enpt., Gen., n. 5638.—B. H., Gen. 
218, n. 2.—Argyrodendron F. MUELL., Fragm., 
. Scaphium. AA FER WE 
. Brachychiton. 4 7. Argyrodendron Brntu., Fl, Austral., 
Pterygota. i, 230.—Watp., Ann., vii, 421.— Argyrodendron 
1 STERCULIA { 
sect. &. 

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2 Cav., Diss., t. 141-145.—H. B. K., Nov. 
Gen, et Spec., v. 299.—A. S. H., Pl. Us. Bras., 
t. 46.—Roxs., Pl. Corom., t. 24, 25.—WALYr., 
Pl, As. Rar., i. t. 3, 59; ii. t. 127; iii, t. 262.— 
Wicur, ZU., t. 30; Teon., t. 181, 364, 487.— 
Guitt. et Prrr., Fl. Sen. Tent., i. 79, t. 16. 
—A. GRAY, in Amer. Expl. Exped., i. 185, t. 13 
(Firmiana).—Miq., Fl. Ind.-Bat., i. p. EYE 
Suppl, i. 399.—Hanyv., Thes. Ccp., t. 3.— 
ANDERS., in Journ. Linn, Soe., v. Suppl., t. 2.— 
F. Murzx., Pl. Vict., t. Suppl. 5.—M1q., F1. 
Ind.-Bat., i. 172.—Brntu., Fl, Austral., i. 225. 
—Mast., in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., i. 215.— 
H. Byn., in Adansonia, x. 179.—Bot. Reg., 
t. 1256, 1853.— Watp., Rep., v. 97, 103; Ann. 
ii, 159, 160; vii. 419. 
3 Bu. Bijdr., 227; in Rumphia, iii, t. 172, 
trifoliolatum ¥. MUELL., loc. cit. 
5 Miq., Fl. Ind.-Bat., i. p. ii. 179; Suppl. 
i. 401. 
6 Baux, Pin., 507.—Scuorr et ENpt., 
Melet., 33.—R. Br., in Benn. Pl. Jav. Rar, 
236.—HB. H., Gen, 218, n. 3.—Courtenia 
R. Br., loc. cit—Bichy LUNAN, Jam., i, 86. 
— ? Culhamia Forsk., Fl. Æq.-Arab., 96 (ex 
Enpu., Gen., 994, f.).—Lunanea DC., Prodr., 
ii. 92.—Edwardia Rarry., Spect., i. 158.— 
Siphoniopsis Karsv., Pl. Columb., 139, t. 69. 
7 With parallel or superposed cells. 
8 Guintrm, et Prrer., Fl. Sen. Tent., i. 81, 
t. 15 (Sterculia).—Masr., in Oliv, Fl, Trop. 
Afr., i, 220.—H. Bn., in Adansonia, x, 165.— 
Wazr., Rep., v. 106; Ann., vii. 421. 
