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XXIV. STERCULIACE^E. 
[Abroma. 
Petals 5, dark brownish purple, base concave, limb spoon-shaped, 
rounded. Staminal-cup of 5 fertile filaments opposite the petals, 
2- antheriferous; anthers bilobed, lobes divergent. Staminodes 
longer, obtuse. Ovary sessile, pyramidal 5-lobed; styles 5; cells 
many-ovuled. Capsule membranous, large 5-angled, 5-winged, 
truncate above septicidally 5-valved; valves villous on edges. 
Seeds numerous. Species 2 or 3, tropical Asia. 
(1) A. augusta. Linn. fil. Sufifi. 341; Masters, l.c. 375 ; King, l.c. i. 89. 
Shrub about 6 ft. tall. Leaves herbaceous, 5- to 7-nerved, 
3- 5 to 6 in. long, 3 to 5 in. wide; petioles 175 to 2-5 in. long, upper 
leaves smaller. Stipules linear. Flowers pendulous, 2 in. long; 
peduncles 1*5 in. long, nodding. Sepals 1 in. long, lanceolate, 
light green. Petals longer, -5 in. long, *25 in. wide. Capsule i'5 
to 2 in. wide. Hab. Thickets, often near limestone rocks in open 
ground, Pahang, on Pahang river. Selangor, Bukit Kutu; Batu 
caves. Perak, Ulu Temengo (Ridley). Distrib. India, China, 
Malay islands, Australia. 
14. BYTTNERIA, Linn. 
(2) Climbing shrubs (or herbs). Leaves various. Flowers small, 
in axillary much-branched cymes. Sepals 5, slightly connate near 
the base. Petals 5, clawed concave indexed, with 2 small side lobes, 
and a long terminal linear or lanceolate appendage. Staminal-tube 
with 5 broad truncate or emarginate teeth, and between them 5 
2-celled extrorse anthers. Ovary sessile, 5-celled; cells bi-ovulate; 
style 5-fid. Capsule globose, spiny, septicidally 5-valved; cells 
1-seeded. About 50 species, mostly tropical American, a few 
Asiatic and African. 
Leaves not cordate. 
Plant glabrous. 
Leaves coriaceous, elliptic, 7 to 8 in. long, 3 in. wide, 
3-nerved . . • ■ • 
Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic, 4 to 5 in. long, 
2 in. wide, not 3-nerved ..... 
Leaves thin, lanceolate-acuminate, not 3-nerved 
Stems and leaves pubescent or velvety. 
Leaves ovate-elliptic, with stellate hairs both sides 
Leaves elliptic, base broad, glabrous above except 
midrib, hairy (not stellate on nerves beneath) 
Leaves ovate cordate thin ...... 
( 1 ) B. Maingayi 
(2) B. brevipes 
(3) B. Curtisii 
(4) B. Jackiana 
(5) B. elliptica 
(6) B. elegans 
Excluded. B. uncinata Masters, in Hook, fil, F.B.I. i. 377 > 
King, l.c. 91, which is a species of Mallot us {Eufihorbiacece). 
(1) B. Maingayi Masters, l.c. 377; King, l.c. 91. 
Stout, woody climber, glabrous. Leaves sub-coriaceous elliptic 
to oblong, shortly blunt-acuminate, base rounded; 3 bold and 2 
smaller nerves; lateral nerves 2 or 3 pairs, 7 to 8 in. long, 3 to 3*5 
in. wide; petioles i*2 in. long. Umbels in panicles of 6 to 8, 
peduncles 1 in. long; pedicels -25 in. long. Sepals *25 in. long, 
