Eriodendron.'l 



16. STEftCULTACEiK. 



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Order 16. STERCULIACE^. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves stipulate^ alternate^ simple or digitate. 

 Flowers regular, uni or bisexual. Sepals 5^ more or less connate. 

 Petals 5 or 0. Stamens monadelphous^ indefinite or definite; or free 

 and definite, with or without alternating staminodes. Ovary free, 

 2-5 -celled; rarely 1 carpel ; ovules few or many, attached to the inner 

 angles of the carpels ; styles as many as ovary-cells, free or united ; 

 raphe ventral or lateral. Frait dry or flieshy, dehiscent or indehiscent ; 

 seeds rarely arillate, with or without albumen; cotyledons leafy, flat, 

 folded or convolute. 



Flowers unisexual or polygainous. Petals 0. Anthers 2-celled 

 in a ring at the top of the staminal column. (Sterculiese.) 



Anthers numerous. Fruit dehiscent, not keeled 1. ^teecttlia. 



Anthers 5. Fruit indehiscent, keeled 2. Heeitieea, 



Flowers bisexual. Petals 5. Staminal column dilated above into 

 a cup, on the edges of which are the anthers, alternating with 

 staminodia. (Helicterese.) 



Capsule membranous, inflated ... ... ... 3. Kleinhovia. 



Capsule woody, not inflated. 



Fruit of 5 spirally twisted carpels 4. Helictbees, 



Fruit a loculi<;idally 5-valved capiale .. 5. PteeospeeMUW. 



Flowers bisexual. Petals 5. btammal column tubular, antheri- 

 f erous for nearly its whole length ; no staminodes. 

 (Eriolseneae.) ... 6. Ekiol^A^ 



1. STERCULIA, Linn, 



Trees, Leaves simple, palmately lobed or digitate. Flowers poly- 

 gamous. Calyx tubular, 4-5-lobed or cleft, often coloured. Petals 0. 

 Ovary of 4-5, sessile or stalked carpels ; ovules 2 or more in each. 

 Follicles sessile or stalked, woody or membranous. Seeds albuminous, 

 rarely winged ; albumen bipartite, flat or folded ; cotyledons flat, thin, 

 adhering to the albumen or thick and fleshy. 



Follicles woody. Seeds not winged. 



Leaves digitate. Leaflets 7-9 1» faetida. 



Leaves palmately lobed. 



Carpels bristly 2. S. urens. 



Carpels rusty villous 3. villosa. 



Leaves simple, 1 -nerved ... 4. 8. guttator. 



Follicles membranous 5. S. colorata. 



Follicles woody, seeds winged 6. 8, alata. 



1. 8. foetida, Linn. ; DO. Prod. L 483 ; Fl. Br. I. 1. 354 ; Bedd. Fl- 

 Syl. 31 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FL SuppL 10 ; Grab. Cat. Bomb. Pi. 18; 

 Jungly badawL Bastard Poon Tree. Kua-mhad, virhoif goldaru, nagal- 

 kuda, Vern. 



Southern India, Malabar, Ceylon ; cultivated in gardens near Bombay ; 

 doubtfully indigenous in the Bombay Presidency. Wood light-yellowish, 

 tough, warps and splits. Seeds edible. Exades a gum resembling 

 tragacanth, Watt. Fl. ApL-May. Fr. 0, S. 



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