Stamens solitary between iho stftTmnodes. 
Petals unguiculate, with 2 lateral 
lobes and a long subterminal ap- 
pendage ... ... ... 10. Bnettneria. 
Petals linear not lobed, concave not 
nnguiculato at the base ... 11. Commersonia. 
Stamens in several series ... ... 12. Leptonychia. 
1. StbbCULIA, Linn. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves simple, entire or palmately lobed, some- 
times digitately compound. Inflorescence panicled or racemose, usually 
axillary and crowded towards the apices of the branches. Flowers male 
and hermaphrodite. Oalysc campanulate or rotate, 4-5 lobed, often 
coloured. Petals 0. Staminal column bearing a head or ring of usually 
sessile, 2-celled, anthers at its apex, the cells often divergent. Carpel* 
5, distinct or slightly cohering, 2 to many-ovuled, borne ou the apex of a 
more or less elongated gynophore ; styles more or less connate : stigmas 
free or united so as to form a peltate lobed disc. Ripe carpels distinct, 
yproiuliti^, sessile or stalked, follicular, From membranous to woody, with 
Beveral (rarely many) seeds ; or navicular with a single seed. Seeds 1 to 
many, sometimes winged, rarely arillate ; albumen bipartite, Hat or lobed : 
cotyledons thin flat and adherent to the albumen, or fleshy ; radicle near 
to or remote from the hilum. Distrib. About 70 species tropical and 
chiefly Asiatic. 
Sect. I. Uusterculia, Endl. Follicle coriaceous or 
woody. Seeds two or more. 
Leaves simple, orbicular or reniform. 
Leaves lobed. 
Follicles glabrous within, the edges 
only ciliate; gynophore and stami- 
nal tube glabrous ... ... 1. S. villosa. 
Follicles hispid- pilose within ; gyno- 
phore and staminal tube hairy ... 2. S. ornata. 
Leaves not lobed ... ... 3. S, macrophylla. 
Leaves simple, longer than broad ; not or- 
bicular or reniform. 
Leaves quite glabrous. 
Calyx-lobes not cohering by their 
apices ... ... ... 4. S. laevis. 
Calyx-lobes cohering by their apices. 
Flowers in racemes: nerves of 
leaves 6 pairs or fewer ... 5. S. kyposticta, 
