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9. Abroma, Jacq. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves cordate, ovate-oblong 1 , serrulate, sometimes 
angled. Peduncles opposite the leaves, few-flowered. Sepals 5, connate 
near the baBe. Petals 5, purplish, concave below, prolonged above into 
a large spoon -shaped lamina. Staminal-cup of 5 fertile and as many 
Bterile divisions ; fertile filaments opposite the petaFs, 3-authoriferous ; 
anthers 2-Iobed, lobes divergent. Staminodes longer than tho fertile 
filaments, obtuse. Ovary Bessile, pyramidal, 5-lobed ; cells many-ovuled, 
styles 5. Capsule membranous, 5-angled, 5-winged, truncate at the 
apex, septicidally 5-valved, valves villous at tho edges. Seeds numer- 
ous, albuminous ; embryo straight, cotyledons flat, cordate, radicle next 
the hilum. — Distrib. 2 or 3 species, natives of Tropical Asia. 
1. A. auqcsta, Linn. fil. Sappl. 341. A pubescent large shrub or 
small tree : young branches pale. Leaves 5 to 7- nerved at the base, 
3*5 to 6 in. long and 3 to 5 in. broad; petiole 1*75 to 2*5 in,, the upper 
much smaller and narrower. Stipules linear, deciduous. Floicers 2 in. 
in diann., peduncles 15 in., extra-axillary. Sepals 1 in. long, lanceolate, 
free to nearly the base. Petals longer than the sepals, imbricate, 
deciduous. Capsule 1*5 to 2 in. indiara.. glabrous or nearly so when ripe # 
DC- Prod. i. 485; Mast, in Hook. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 375; Bl. Bijdr. 85* 
Roxb. Hort. Beng. 50; Fl. Ind. iii. 156 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 183; 
Beddome Flor. Sylvat. Anal. Gen. t. 5 ; W. & A. Prodr. i. 65 ; Wall. 
Cat. 1142. A. angulata, Lam. 111. 630. A. Wheeleri, Retz. Obs. v. 27 ; 
Willd. Sp. PT. iii. 1425. A.fastuosum, Otartn. Frnct. i. 307, t. 64. 
In all the Provinces at low elevations ■ usually near cultivation. 
Distrib. Malayan Archipelago, Philippines, China, Brit. India. 
The bark yields a stout fibre. 
10*. Btjettneria, Linn. 
Erect climbing or tomentoBe shrnbs, herbs, or trees; sometimes 
prickly. Leaves various. Flowers minute, in axillary or terminal niuch- 
bmnched, umbellate cymes. Sepals 5, slightly connate near the base. 
Petals 5, unguiculate, concave, inflexed, with 2 small lateral lobes, and 
a long sub-terminal simple linear or narrowly lanceolate appendage. 
Staminal tube with 5 broad truncate or emarginate teeth and, between 
them, five 2-celled extrorse anthers (mouth entire in B, Curtisit). Ovary 
sessile, 5-celled, the cells 2-ovulate. Style entire, 5-fid, Capsule glo- 
bose, echinate, eepticidaly 5-valved, the ceils 1-seeded. Seed ascending-, 
exalbuminous : cotyledons folded ronnd the radicle. Distrib. About 
48 species, mostly tropical American : a few tropical Asiatic and one 
African. 
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