Dombeya.\ 
STEECULIACEiE. 
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umbels, on pedicels in. long. Sepals in. long, thick, tomentose. 
Petals little longer than sepals, obovate. Styles free to the base. DC. 
Prod. i. p. 499. 
Mauritius, near tlie summit of the Pouce, Bojer. We have it at Kew only from 
Bourbon. 
4. TROCHETIA, DC. 
Bracteoles 0. Calyx divided to the base into 5 lanceolate segments. 
Petals 5, obovate, marcescent. Stamens monadelphous, tbe short or 
long column bearing 5 ligulate staminodes, with 2-4 fertile anthers 
between each. Ovary 5-celled; ovules many in a cell ; style divided at 
the top into 5 stigmatic points. Capsule hard, globose, finally split- 
ting into 5 valves. — Shrubs with crowded petioled oblong leaves, 
abundant scurfy pubescence and peduncled axillary flowers. Distrib. 
Two other species in St. Helena, and one in Madagascar. 
Flowers large ; peduncles deflexed. 
Flowers 3 ; stamen-column cylindrical 1. T. triflora. 
Flowers solitary ; stamen-column campanulate. 
Leaves small, densely furfuraceous beneath . . . 2. T. uniflora. 
Leaves large, naked on both surfaces 3. T. Blackburnian a. 
Flowers small ; peduncles ascending 4. T. parviflora. 
1. T. triflora, DC. in Mem. Mus. Par. x. 106, t. 8. A shrub, with 
petioles, peduncles, leaves below and sepals clothed with dense brown 
scurfy pubescence. Leaves oblong, crowded near the end of the 
branches, 4-6 in. long, acute, subentire or dentate, broadly rounded 
at the base, coriaceous, green and scabrous above, covered with brown 
tomentum beneath ; petiole erect, 1-2 in. long. Peduncles much de- 
flexed, exceeding the petioles, 3-flowered. Sepals acuminate, an inch 
long. Petals obovate, half as long again as the sepals. Staminal 
column cylindrical, the stalked anthers overtopped by the ligulate 
staminodes. Styles reaching the top of the petals. Fruit hard, oblong, 
furfuraceous. T. grandiflora, Lindl. Dot. Deg. 1844, t. 21 ; Bojer, Hort. 
Maur. 41. 
Mauritius, in high exposed woods of Pouce, Grand Bassin, etc. Endemic. 
2. T. uniflora, DC. in Mem. Mus. Par. x. 106, t. 7. A low shrub, with 
petioles, peduncles, and leaves below, clothed with dense brown scurfy 
pubescence. Leaves oblong, 2-3 in. long, obscurely crenate or entire, 
firm, rounded at the base, obtuse or subacute ; petiole i-1 inch, as- 
cending or curved. Peduncles one-flowered, deflexed, exceeding the 
petioles. Sepals lanceolate, f inch long, densely furfuraceous. Petals 
obovate, rather exceeding the sepals. Staminal column cup-shaped, the 
staminodes overtopping the ten anthers, reaching halfway up the 
petals. Stigmas overtopping the staminodes. Capsule hard, globose, 
furfuraceous, J- inch thick. T. Candolleana, Bojer , Hort. Maur. 41. 
Mauritius, in exposed places of the Pouce, Piton de la Riviere Noire, etc. 
Endemic. 
3. T. Blackburniana, Bojer, Hort. Maur. 41 {name only.) Alow 
branched shrub, with petioles, peduncles, and sepals clothed with grey 
