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1891.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
9. Abroma, Jacq. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves cordate, ovate-oblong, serrulate, sometimes 
angled. Peduncles opposite the leaves, few-flowered. Sepals 5, connate 
near the base. Petals 5, purplish, concave below, prolonged above into 
a large spoon-shaped lamina. Staminal-cup of 5 fertile and as many 
sterile divisions ; fertile filaments opposite the petals, 3-antheriferous ; 
anthers 2-lobed, lobes divergent. Staminodes longer than the fertile 
filaments, obtuse. Ovary sessile, pyramidal, 5-lobed ; cells many-ovuled, 
styles 5. Capsule membranous, 5-angled, 5-winged, truncate at the 
apex, septicidally 5-valved, valves villous at the 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. augdsta, Linn. fil. Suppl. 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 T75 to 2'5 in., the upper 
much smaller and narrower. Stipules linear, deciduous. Flowers 2 in. 
in diam., peduncles T5 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. in diam., glabrous or nearly so when ripe. 
DC. Prod. i. 485; Mast, in Hook. FI. Br. Ind. i. 375; Bl. Bijdr. 85; 
Roxb. Hort. Beug. 50; FI. Ind. iii. 156; Miq. FI. 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. 636. A. Wheeleri, Retz. Obs. v. 27 ; 
Willd. Sp. PL iii. 1425. A. fastuosum, Gantn. Fruct. 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. Buettneria, Linn. 
f 
Erect climbing or tomentose shrubs, herbs, or trees ; sometimes 
prickly. Leaves various. Flowers minute, in axillary or terminal much- 
branched, umbellate cymes. Sepals 5, slightly connate near the base. 
Petals 5, unguiculate, concave, indexed, 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. Curtisii). Ovary 
sessile, 5-celled, the cells 2-ovulate. Style entire, 5-fid Capsule glo- 
bose, echinate, septicidaly 5-valved, the cells 1-seeded. Seed ascending, 
exalbuminous : cotyledons folded round the radicle. Distrib. About 
48 species, mostly tropical American : a few tropical Asiatic and one 
African. 
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