Sterculia, | STERCULIACE, 273 
Andreecium tubular only at base ; stamens 5, without staminodes:— 
rsa 5-celled Melochia 
Ovary 1-celled Waltheria, 
*Petals acs at the base, appendaged at the tip; an 
tubular; anthers marginal 1-seriate, singly or in groups lisesi 
with staminodes eas 272] 
thers in groups of 2-4 between each pair of staminodes :— 
Petals with a ries ovate blade; capsule 5-winged and 5- 
angled, truncate at the top, valves hirsute at edges ..,... Abroma, 
Pet w: with a linear 2-fid blade; capsule matey wager: 
t 
rcled 
“esa solitary between each pair of staminodes; ORs ‘with ug 
ligulate 2-fid blade; capsule pri ds MR Pee ots eT Buettneria, 
105. Sterculia Linn. 
Trees or shrubs, with simple, palmately lobed, or compound 
digitate leaves. Flowers in axilla ry or terminal panicles, ig 
mous. Calyx tubular, 4-5-partite, often petaloid. Petals 0. 
Stamens united in a column bearing a head or ring of stile 
2-celled anthers, Ovary sessile or stipitate, of 4-5 carpels opposite 
the sepals ; styles connate below ; stigmas free, radiating, as many 
or 
folded embryo with cotyledons sometimes thin adherent to the 
albumen. sometimes thick and fleshy. 
Seeds without wings, few :— 
Carpels boat-shaped, woody in fruit, forming a 5-rayed star, not open- 
ing till the ea are ripe; flowers campanulate :— 
Leaves digitate Re 
Leaves a 
Leaves palmately nerved and palmately lobed o 
Carpels densely withers with stiff fragile nore flowers Lia 
BCrOSS, FJ fewer than 9  ...ccpecrseceerncernrerenerrsrcrensccseees 
Carpels shortly Eien with stellate hairs ; ‘ioe a. 
ACTOSS, F More NUMEFOUS than Fo ccceeeeeerseeererrerseeres villosa, 
Leaves 1-nerved, not palmately lobed .....+.-.+:+1+--00" Roxburghii 
Carpels spathulate, membranous, pendulous in fruit, opening long 
before the seeds are ripe; flowers tubular ......---+++---+10re0-+* colorata, 
1 8 winged along their upper end, numerous ; carpels ere bees ; 
“aves 5-neryed at base but not lobed scs.c.-ssesess-cesestecespeer seers 
