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356 XXVII. STERCULiACEiE. (Maxwell T. Masters.) [Sterculia. 



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TT. dh A, Prodr. i 62 ; Wight. Ic. t. 487 ; Thwaites Enum. 29 ; Dah, & Gih. 

 Bmnh. Fl. 23 ; Beddcme Fl. Sylvat. t. 105 ; Br. in Benn. PL Jat\ Ear. 229. 

 S. cuneata, Heynems, in Wall. Cat 1127^ S. alata, Wall. Cat. 1127 1>, 

 not of others. — Rheede Ilort, MaL iv. t. 61. , / ,z\ ,ii 



Peninsula 



Malacca and the Andaman Isles ; Ceylon, Ambagamowa district. '"'t"U'* 



A tree. Trunl straight. Bark cracked, ash-coloured, inner fibrous. Toimg $hooW 

 pubescent. Leaves7-S by 4 in., scabrid above, nerves stellate-pilose beneath ; petiole 

 2 in., thinly stellate pilose ; stipules ensiform, caducous. Panicle equalling the 1?^^ 

 branches horizontal, rusty-tomentose ; ultimate pedicels shorter than the flowers. Bracts 

 lanceolate. Flower-buds globose. Flowers chiefly (?. Calyx 4 in., densely ru^tj- 

 downy outside, glandular within, campanulate, 5 fid; segments hroadly ovate-acute, 

 ultimately reflexed, covered with long hairs. Anthers 12. Ovary stalked, globose, 

 3-5-lobed. Style curved, sligma 3-5-lobed. Follicles 1-5, size of a bmall apple, eacn 

 about 3 in., obovoid, covered with reddish down, smooth, pink within. Placentas villous. 

 JSeeds oblong ; testa black, brittle ; between it and the second coat, which is brown aiia 

 tough, is a soft white sebaceous substance, innermost coat thin, membranous; albunien 

 amygdaloid; cotyledons elliptic. ,*. .* v^ 



Brown, I.e., makes two vars., a with oblong ovate acute leaves ; and /3 "^i*" *^*^^'\ 

 acuminate leaves and racemes much shorter than the leaves. — Cloth is made from 

 bark in Malabar. ' 



6. S. Roxburgrbll, Wall Cat. 1124; leaves glabrous oval or oblong- 

 lanceolate suddenly acuminate base rounded, racemes erect shorter than in 

 leaves. Wall. PL As. Ear. 262; Br. in Benn. PL Jav. Ear. 229. b.m- 

 ceaefolia, Eoxb. Hort. Beng, 50 ; FL Ind. iii. 150, not of Cav. S. ovaWona, 

 WalL Vat. 1132. S. alata, WalL Cat. 1125. in part. [> 



Tempekate Himalaya, ascending in. Sikkim 6000 ft., J.D^H.; Silhet an 

 Assam. 



A tree. Barh ashy. 



both ends; "stipules subulate. 



Leaven 4-8 by 1-3 in., lanceolate ; petiole J-l ^"i t^^l^'^^"^,,^ 



ulate. Eacemes 2 in., axillary, few-liov^ered, pedicels eret^^ 



patent sparingfy stellatepilose. 6 fl. most numerous. Calyx 4 in. diam., scarlet, 

 panulate, 5-parted, segments oblong-lanceolate, spreading, longer than *ne tube. 

 licles 1-5, 3 in., lanceolate, beaked, downy-scaberulous, pink. Seeds 4-8, blac^ o ^ 



coats as in S. guttata (Roxb.), albumen scanty ; cotyledons thick. 

 folia only differs in its oval leaves. 





7. S. parvifolia, Wall. Cat. 1123 ; leaves glabrous lanceolate b^? 



sun 

 Ear. 229. 



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Malacca and Penang, Porter, &c. 



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.lUAi^AiJUA ana rENANG, I'orter, &c. . , ... u gtn>- 



A small tree. Branches glabrous, purplish, bark cracking, leaving T.f"' .hortcf 

 Leaves 4-6 by \\ in. ; petiole 2 in, thickened at the apex. Eacemes af ^"^'^l 'jmenJ 

 than the leaf. -FJow?cr« red. -FoHicZes 2 in., downy, oblong. >Seed« hlack.— »F^ 

 imperfect. 



a S. fitriatlflora, Ma^t. ; leaves glabrous oblong-acute }^f}^lf^^' 

 panicle branched shorter than the leaves, calyx funnel-shaped striaieu. 



13iRMA, Griffith. 



A shrub. Leaves 

 1 in, ; stipules subul 

 than the flowers. Bracteoles 





dinally striated ; lobes linear, erecto-patent.— Imperfect specimens only seen. 



9. S. macrophylla, Vent.Hcyrt. Malm. ii. n. 9U in note; J^avf ^i^tl 

 above tomentose beneath suborbicular quite entire l>ase deepiy v 



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triangular. Br. in Benn. PL Jav. Itar. 23Q,„ . . 



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