A kind of sterculia, which is the most common tree at Loanda, and the baobab, flourish here; and the tree called moshuka, which we found near Tala Mungongo, was now yielding its fruit, which resembles small apples. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
A tree whose botanical name is sterculia platanifolia. From Wordnik.com. [Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese] Reference
The trees on this firm margin of land were a species of eucalyptus, cypresses, and the sterculia heterophylla, with a few casuarinae. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales] Reference
The heteromorphous sterculia of the interior, and some species of eucalyptus of very stunted growth covered its sides, which however for a considerable distance were not deficient in grass. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales] Reference
The trees thin and chiefly cypress, with occasionally a large sterculia, but no water whatever: at the ninth mile we entered a very thick eucalyptus brush, overrun with creepers and prickly acacia bushes. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales] Reference
The country traversed, consisted of scrubby flats, and low sandy ridges, timbered with bloodwood, messmate, mimosa, melaleuca, grevillea, and two or three species of the sterculia or curriijong, then in full blossom. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland] Reference
The former have a few cypresses, sterculia, and iron bark upon them; the latter are generally covered with brush, under box; the brush for the most part consisting of two distinct species of stenochylus, and a new acacia. From Wordnik.com. [Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete] Reference
The country on the north side which we passed over was of various description; the hills barren and stony, with dwarf eucalypti, or gums, casuarinae, and a few of the sterculia heterophylla; the country hilly and open: some of the flats on the banks of the river were extensive and rich, and apparently not subject to floods. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales] Reference
(a species of sterculia) under which the bentang is commonly placed. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, 1795-7] Reference
The breadth of the valley to the base of the opposite gently rising hills was, between three and four miles, studded with fine trees, upon a soil which for richness can nowhere he excelled; its extent north and south we could not see: to the west it was bounded by the lofty rocky ranges by which we had entered it; this was covered to the summit with cypresses and acacia in full bloom: a few trees of the sterculia heterophylla, with their bright green foliage, gave additional beauty to the scene. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales] Reference
For example, bran, ispaghula husk, methylcellulose and sterculia. From Wordnik.com. [tequilamonky Diary Entry] Reference
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