634. PLANTiE JAVANIC^ RARIORES. 



simple and compound leaves should in this tribe be uncon- 

 nected with other characters, and the very few plants in 

 which compound leaves occur differ widely from each other 

 in the form of their flowers or direction of their segments. 



Sterculie^. 



Desc. Tribus. — Flores diclines, monoici, Masculi cum 

 rudimento, ssepiiis minuto et antheris occultato, pistilli : 

 raro stigmatibus ovalisque fere ut in femineis. Feminei 

 antheris manifestis ssepe donatis poUine sed semper effoeto. 

 Calt/x monophyllus, 5-fidus, nunc 5-partitus, raro 4- v. 

 6-fidus, sequalis, coloratus ; sestivatione valvata rarissirae 

 induplicata; deciduus, quandoque marcescens. Corolla 

 nulla. Gynostemium, columna genitalia sustinens, calyce 

 brevius v. longius raro abbreviatum fere nullum, in cujus 

 apice AnthercB subsessiles quindecim, nunc decern, quan- 

 doque viginti (raro quinque) urceolum abbreviatum cyathi- 

 formem rarissime tubulosum terminantes, in capitulum 

 inordinatim congestse, v. in fasciculos quinque cum ovariis 

 alternantes polyadelphse (nunc dum decern v. quinque, 

 SEepius in serie simplici dispositse) ; biloculares, loculis dis- 

 tinctis, parallelis (raro divaricatis). Pollen simplex, lajve, 

 sphseroideum. Ovaria 5, raro 4 v. 6 (rarissime 10 — 12), 

 leviter cohserentia, polysperma (nunc tetra- v. disperma, 

 raro monosperma). Ovula angulo interno ovarii, dum inde- 

 326] finita duplici raro quadruplici serie, inserta. 8tyli tot 

 quot ovaria, coaliti v. arete approximati, et tunc saepe arete 

 deflexi (nunc ad basin fere distincti, quandoque nulli). 

 Stigmata'va. unicum subcapitatum quinquelobum cohaerentia, 

 v. distincta subcylindracea indivisa. Pericarpia : Folliculi 

 coriacei v. lignei (raro submembranacei) haud ante maturi- 

 tatem seminum dehiscentes (in nonnuUis in quibus ovula 

 definita (2 v. 4) cito post faecundationem aperientes, foliacei) 

 (raro clausi, nucamentacei). Semina aptera rarissime apice 

 alata), umbilico ssepe omnino nudo, quandoque strophiola 

 parva, rarissime si unquara ? arillo carnoso incompleto ? 

 aucto. Integumentum triplex (in exalbuminosis simplex : 



