Flora Medica

GUAZUMA.Calyx 5-sepaled, deciduous, the sepals sometimes united 2 or3 together.Petals 5, concave below, linear-ligulate and deeplybifid at the apex. Stamens very slightly connected at the base :sterile ones 5, lanceolate : fertile ones united into 5 trifid filaments,each opposite to a petal, and bearing 3 anthers.Styles5, connivent. Stigmas simple- Fruit indehiscent, woody, externallymuricated with club-shaped variously-connected tubercles,5-celled, polyspermous. Seeds ovate-roundish. Albumenvery thin, fleshy. Cotyledons plaited. Trees with stellatepubescence. Leaves entire. Peduncles axillary and terminal,somewhat dichotomously branched, many-flowered. W. and A.273. G. ulmifolia Lam. encycl.\\\. 52. DC.prodr.i. 485.Aug. de St. H. pi. usuelles t. 14. Theobroma GuazumaLinn. sp. pi. 1100. Pluk. aim. t. 77. f. 5. Bubroma GuazumaWilld. enum. 806. South America and West India Islands.Leaves ovate or oblong, acuminate, unequally toothed, the youngerslightly downy, the old ones smooth on both sides. Old bark esteemedin Martinique a sudorific and useful in cutaneous diseases.Young bark used, on account of the quantity of its mucilage, to clarifysugar. A. de St. H.KYDIA.Calyx campanulate, 5-lobed, persistent, surrounded by andunited at the base with a 4-6-leaved involucel. Petals 5,obliquely obcordate, longer than the calyx, attached by theirclaws to the base of the staminal column. Samens monadelphous,the tube split about the middle into 5 segments, eachbearing 4 anthers closely placed together at the apex : sterilefilaments none. Ovarium single, 3-celled : ovules 2, collateral,erect, at the base of each cell. Style 1, 3-cleft. Stigma dilated,peltate, fleshy. Capsule 3-valved, 3-celled, 1-2 cells being occasionallyabortive ;perfect cells 1 -seeded. Seed erect. Trees,with alternate 5-nerved, somewhat 5-lobed leaves. Flowerswhite, panicled. W. and A.274. K. calycina Roxb. corom.pl.iii. 11. t. 215. DC.prodr.i. 500. W. and A. 70. Coromandel, Nepal, the Neelgherrymountains and other parts of India.Leaves roundish, cordate, angularly sinuated, with about 7 palmateveins, sometimes oblique, the uppermost often 3-lobed ; downy on theunderside. Panicles downy, axillary, in flower shorter than the leaves,in fruit longer. Calyx of the fruit downy, reticulated, with obovateobtuse segments. Bark used in India in the same way as that ofGuazuma ulmifolia in Martinique. Royle.137