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No. 263. 
Tarrietia Argyrodendron Benth. 
The Buyong. . . .';... .'. . .' . . 
(Family STERCULIACE./E.) 
Botanical description. Genus Tarrietia, Blume (Argyrodendron F. MuelL). 
Flowers unisexual. 
Calyx 5-cleft. 
Petals none. 
Staminal column short, adnate to the gynophore, bearing at the summit ten to fifteen anthers 
irregularly clustered in a head. 
Carpels of the ovary three to five, nearly distinct, 1-ovulate, rarely 2-ovulate. 
Styles as many, shortly filiform, stigmatic on the inner edge. 
Fruit-carpels or samaras distinct, spreading, indehiscent, produced at the back into a wing. 
Seed oblong, albumen splitting in two ; cotyledons flat. 
Tall trees. 
Leaves digitately compound, glabrous or scurfy. 
Flowers small and numerous, in axillary or lateral panicles. (B. F!. \. 230.) 
IJotatlical description. Species Argyrod-endron Benth., in B.F1. i, 230 (1863). 
A tall tree, glabrous except minute scurfy scales on the young shoots and inflorescence, and ottcn 
on the underside of tte leaves. 
Leaflets three, or on the younger trees often five, petiolulate, oblong or lanceolate,, obtuse or acuminate, 
3 to 4 inches long, coriaceous. 
Panicles dichotomous, tho upper ones sometimes exceeding the leaves. Flowers very numerous. 
Calyx broadly campanulate, about 3 lines diameter, 
Carpels with a semiorbicular "wing about 1 inch long, 
The difference between this and another species may be stated I- 
Leaflets, throe or four, silvery or coppery 
on the underside ... ,., ... T. Argyrodendron. 
Leaflets, three to nine, glabrous , T. etctinophytta; 
