LXIX. 
SOUTHWELLIA NOBILIS. 
Noble Southwellia. 
‘ ORDO NATURALIS. 
Sterculiacee. Vent. Jard. Malm. n. 91. 
a 
Calyx a laciniis 5 in. tiaram apice coalitis, Masc. Anthere 10, page ze Boas 
formis glom Herm. Anthera ut in masculis. Perianthium coriaceum, lobis 3-5 post 
anthesin oot e Semina sessilia, caruncula ad hilum. Arbores procere. Folia | diaplitla 
oblonga. Stipule a petiolo distincte. Flores racemis longis ex axillis imis nudis turionum. 
In memoriam Sophie Southwell, nobilis viduwe Edoardi Lord De Clifford, amore et cultur 
plantarum dudum inclytissime. Huc S. Balanghas ovens species in Herbario Banksiano. 
Re 
8. foliorum laminis 4-12 pollices longis, p obovato-lanceolatis, adultis Iucidis, membranaceis: 
pedunculo raré pubescente: stigmate ‘breviter 3-5-lobo. 
oe monosperma, Vent. Jard. Malm, p. 91. cum Ic. Sterculia Balanghas, Cav. Diss. 5. p- 
6. f. 143. pessima. Sterculia Balanghas. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2. p. 1430. Sterculia fo liis, &c. 
Linn. Fl. Zeyl. n. 350. Cavalam. Rheed. Hort. Mal.v. 1. p. 89.t.99. 
Sponte nascentem in Ins. Ceylon, legit P. Herman. 2 
F loret Februario, in natali solo tunc foliis denudata. 
Monsieur Ventenat, in the work above acon has justly observed that the plants at present 
known by the name of Sterculia form a separe e Natural Order, of which I may possibly give 
the characters in a future number, when Rother genus sold by the nurserymen for Helicteres 
Apetala is figured; but I think that the first section of Jussieu’s Tiliacee has no immediate affinity 
to them, and that they differ still more by the structur 
alo . More than twice the number in Willden ow’s Species Plantaru 
vered, and besides those I know hamper tery several others, of all which only one belongs taf 
Forskhol seems to have been thé va first botanist, who thought épicett glabortt t Sterculia, having: 
so long ago as 1763 separated his Culhamia, which isa congener put undoubtedly not the same 
pecies with S. Platanifolia from Japan. Another pupil of the immortal Linne, whom our — 
country is so proud of, Dryander, next separated Heritiera in the Hortus Kewensis, and a 
: I believe the op or now 
proposed to be fully as saya of which I have seen three species in our gardens: the first 
here figured ; a second from the Nicobar Isles, san grothe mans and very dichotomous pedun- 
: , i : ines h heart-shaped hairy leaves. They all agree 
Sr with wr ea smelling like Vanilla, a pad ayo 
— rd, whose stoves have for so 
Chis species is become pretty common: the tr at taty D 
‘ing — made is very large, and corresponds with Fagor description more 
elsewhere 4: dt th scific name. ae 
sy i ie sia mies fait. Beer or dist eer er barbarous ont rdt Sine, Aone 
iia Glompoas. Ihave therefore called it t Nobilis, from oe "grandeur ape re ta 
_ €oast of Guinea, Regalis, as its aq ie still more resembles a regal crown, aot ime 
Nicobar Isles, Principalis. ‘The last term has been criticized by one who rafese : = 
friend to this work, as bad Latin! instead of exposing his name, ® principalis fecta causa; — 
three of the purest writers of the golden ns pes i ato ari a 4. 
Tacitus, Hist. 2. 59.3, nullo principali parata sed. wolerh CeCe i a 
19, porta principalis. eo nae < 
e of their seeds, from his last pepe ae: 
