376 XXVII. STEHCULIACE2E. (Maxwcll T. Masters.) IGwizuma. 



beneath, base 5-7-nerved ; petiole short. Flovbers numerous, yellow, in terminal and 

 axillary paniclep, which are twice the length of the leayes. Flower-hinds globose. 

 Calyx IJ in., bell-shaped, stellate-hairy. Sepals ultimately reflexed. Peiofe exceeding 

 the calyx. Anthers concealed in the hood of the petals. Capsule 1 in,, oblong, obtuse, 

 covered with obtuse black tubercles. 



15. BUETTITERXA, Linn. 



Herbs, trees or shrubs, often climbers, frequently prickly. Foliage various. 

 Flowers minute, in repeatedly branched axillary or terminal umbellate 

 cymes. Sepals 5, connate at the base. Petals 5, daw concave, limb with a 

 long strap-shaped 2-fid appendage. Stamens 10, connate below into a mem- 

 branous tube, bearing above 6 fertile stamens opposite the petals, and 

 6 staminodes opposite the sepals; anthers 2-lobed, extrorse. Ovary 

 sessile, 5-celled ; cells opposite the petals, 2-ovuled ; style entire or 5-fid. 

 Capsule globose, spiny, septicidaUy 5-valvedj valves breaking away from 

 a central column, cells 1-seeded. Seed ascending, exalbuminous ; coty- 

 ledons folded around the superior radicle, plumule lobed. — Disthib. About 

 45 species, mostly natives of tropical America, a few are Asiatic, and one 

 African. 



* Leaves usually longer than broad, generally simple. 



1. B. taerbacea, Roxb. Cor. PI. i. t. 29; Ft. Ind. i. 619; herbaceous, 

 unarmed, leaves glabrous ovate acuminate toothed paler beneath, capsule 

 covered with small subulate prickles. Wall. Cat. 1146 ; W. do A. Prodr. 

 1. 65 ; Wight Ic. t. 488 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Fl. Bomb. 23. Commersonia her- 

 bacea, G. Don. Gen. Syst. i. 523. 



Western Peniksula ; not uncommon in the Carnatic, Orissa, and Concan. 



Stem herbaceous, unarmed. Leaves li-24 by | in., base cordate or rounded, 3-5- 

 nerved, nerves not glandular; petiole Jin. Stipules linear, equalling the petiole. 

 Inflorescence longer than the adjoining leaf. Sepals linear-lanceolate, reflexed. Limb 

 of petals subulate, as long as the sepals, puberulous. Fertile filaments very short ; 

 staminodes ovate. Fruit the size of a pea, 5-lobed. 



2. B. crenulata. Wall. Cat. 1150 : a tree, branches unarmed, leaves 

 glabrous elliptic acuminate, capsule globose glabrous covered with long 

 linear-lanceolate spines. B. polyacantha, Wall. Cat. 1151 ? B catalpifolia 

 WaM. Cat. 1152? B. echinata. Wall. Cat. 1149? 



NiPAL, Wallich; BpiMA, at Attran and Saluen, Wallich; Peou, M'CleUand. 



Leaves 4-5 by 2-3 in., coriaceous, leaves 5-7-nerved, rounded ; petiole 2 in., thickened 

 at both ends. Peduncles short, thinly fitellale-hairy, pedicels J-| in., jointed in the 

 middle. Bracteoles equalling the pedicels, persistent, lanceolate. Flower-buds deltoid, 

 5-angular, pilose. Flowers i in. diam. Petals stalked, limb cordate with two rounded 

 lobes, apex linear. Ovary ovoid, style short. Capsule i in. diam.— The above synonyms 

 mnst be received with hesitation, the materials being too imperfect to allow of satisfac- 

 tory determination. 



3. B. Jacklana, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. (ed. Carey) ii. 386 ; shrubby 

 unarmed, leaves elliptic acuminate scabrid above, stellate hairy beneath 

 nerves pilose, capsule globose covered with straight-subukte spines Wall 



CW. 1147. 



Penano, Jack, &c. 



A climbing shrub ; herbaceous portions pilose and downy. Leaves 3-5 by li-2i in 

 entire or minutely serrated, base rounded ; petiole | in. pilose. Panicles axiUarv much 

 shorter than the. leaves, many-flowered ; pedicels capillary, stellate-hairy Sepals ^ in 

 deltoid acunimate, spreading. Petofe shorter than the sepals. Capsule 1 in. dfam!! 

 glabrous, 5-lobed. Seeds black. * j- >» «>"., 



