25 AILANTHUS EXCELSA. 
mountains ; flowers during the cold season; seed ripe in April 
and May. 
The wood of this tree is white and light, of course it soon 
perishes ; is chiefly used to make cattamarans (rafts for fishermen to 
go a fishing on). 
In the plate the dissected flowers are magnified; the fruit of its 
natural size. 
94, STERCULIA URENS. 
Cavallie »} the Telingas. 
Trunk erect, very straight ; top large and shady. Bark ash-coloured, 
very smooth ; its outer coat is thin, transparent, covered with 
a farinaceous substance, and peels off like the pellicle of the: 
birch-bark ; 
Leaves about the extremities of the branches, alternate, petioled, 
five-lobed, five-nerved: lobes acute, very downy, from nine to 
inwardly it is fibrous and netted. 
twelve inches each way. 
Petiole nearly as long as the leaf, round, downy. 
Panicles terminal, pretty large; every part covered with a gluti- 
nous, farinaceous, yellow down. 
Bracts lanced. 
Flowers small, numerous, yellow, male and hermaphrodite mixed ; 
there is but a small proportion of the latter. 
HERMAPHRODITE FLOWERS. 
Calyx below, belled, five-toothed, leathery, divisions acute ; on the 
inside of each division near the base there is an inverse-hearted 
hairy gland. 
Corol none. 
Filaments ten, short, alternately longer, united below into a thin 
sheath, which girds the base of the germs. 
Anthers large, two-lobed, alternately larger. 
Germs five, placed on a thick short pedicel. 
Style single, short, thick. 
Stigma five-lobed. 
Capsules five, leguminous, united in form of a star, one-celled, one- 
valved, opening lengthways, on the outside covered with 
yellow down, and many stiff burning hairs. 
Seeds from three to five, oblong, chesnut-coloured, inserted alter- 
nately into the margins of the capsules. 
MALE FLOWERS. 
Calyx, Stamen, and columnar Receptacle as in the hermaphrodite. 
Pistil: the rudiments of the germs only, without any appearance of 
a style. 
This is a very large tree, chiefly a native of the mountainous 
countries on the coast; casts its leaves about the end of the wet sea- 
son; flowers during the cold; the leaves come out with the fruit 
about the beginning of the hot season. 
The wood of this tree is soft and spongy; towards the centre of 
~ large trees it is reddish. I do not know of any use it is put to, ex- 
cept to make Hindoo guitars. 
I observed that the water in which I kept green branches for exa- 
mination, became thick, like a clear, glutinous jelly. . 
Bark exceedingly astringent, tinges the saliva reddish. Seeds 
are roasted and eaten by the natives; they taste very like parched 
pease. 
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25. STERCULIA COLORATA. 
Caraka of the Telingas. 
Trunk erect, growing to a very great size. Bark ash-coloured, and 
a little scabrous. 
Branches numerous, irregularly spreading; Bark as on the trunk, 
but smoother. 
Leaves alternate, about the extremities of the branchlets, petioled, 
considerably broader than long, five-nerved, five-lobed: lobes 
acute ; soft and a little downy; they are generally, when full 
grown, from nine to twelve inches broad, and from six to nine 
long. 
Petiole round, a little downy, about nine inches long. 
Stipules two, erect, lanced, inserted into the petiole near its base. 
Panicles terminal, small, numerous, red like coral, covered with 
many red stellated hairs: when in flower this tree appears as 
if entirely covered with fine ramifications of red coral. 
Flowers numerous, about an inch long. : 
Calyx below, funnel-form, leathery, its mouth five-toothed, outside 
covered with red stellated hairs, withering. 
Corol none. 
Filaments scarce any. 
Anthers about thirty, kidney-form, sitting sessile round the border 
of the extremity of the receptacle. 
Receptacle of the pistil cylindric, bent a little, length of the calyx, 
round, smooth, bearing five oval germs on its top. 
Styles short, recurved. 
Stigmas acute. 
Capsules from one to five come to maturity, leguminous, pedicelled, 
pendulous, leathery, one-celled, one-valved, opening on the 
outside long before the seeds are ripe. 
Seeds two, adhering one to each margin of the gaping capsule, Mice 
nate, about the size and shape of a French bean. 
This is a very large tree, a native of the mountainous parts of the 
Rajahmundry Circar ; casts its leaves during the cold season ; flowers 
in April; soon after the leaves make their appearance. 
26. SALVADORA PERSICA. 
Linn. Spec. Plant.178. Vahl Symb. 1. p. 12. tab. 4. 
. Embelia Grossularia. Retz. obs. 4. p. 24. 
Pedda Waragowenky of the Telingas. 
Trunk generally crooked, eight or ten feet high to the branches, and 
one in diameter. Bark very scabrous and deeply cracked. 
Branches exceedingly numerous, spreading, with their extremities 
perfectly pendulous, like the weeping willow. 
Leaves opposite, petioled, oval or oblong, entire, very smooth and 
shining on both sides, without veins, from one to two inches 
long, and about one broad. 
Stipules none. 
Panicle terminal, and from the exterior axills, composed. 
Flowers minute, very numerous, greenish yellow. 
Bracts minute. 
Calyx below, four-toothed, lasting. 
Corol one-petaled: tube short ; border four-cleft ; segments oblong, 
revolute. 
