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1119, F. : Hook Ic.Fl. 143 : Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 23 ; W. & A. Prodr.u 

 63. S. rubicunda, Wall. Cat 1119, D, F, G. Firmiana colorata, £r. in 

 Benn. PI. Jav. Bar. 235 ; Thwaites Mum. 29. Erythropsis Roxburghiana, 

 ScJwtt & Bndl. Melel. Bot. 33. " - ,ii!- 



Eastern Bengal; Pegu, tlie Western Peninsula, and Ceylon. ^ r - 10 • 

 A large tree ; trunk erect, bark ashj, branches spreading. Leave8*6-9 by 5-12 in., 

 about the ends of the branches, base cordate, 3-lobed, lobes triangular acuminate; 

 petiole 4-9 in.; stipules erect, lanceolate. Pamc/e terminal, coral-like, many-flowered, 

 pedicels covered with orange-red tomentum. Calyx | in., tube 4 times longer th^n the 

 rounded rather obtuse lobes, orange-downy outside, pilose within; anthers 30, renitorm. 

 iS^^fc* recurved. Follicles 2~^ in., stipitate, glabrous, membranous. Seeds ovoid, mooin 

 or wrinkled, of the size of a field bean.— Brown, I.e., admits 3 varieties: \ar. *»/^"^ 

 furfuraceons calyx, tube nearly 4 times longer than the lobes. Y ar, 2 is S.fulgenSt 

 Wall. ^ Var. 3 has calyx-lobes covered with loose spreading stellate hairs, tube scarcely 

 three times longer than the lobes. , --4 



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Wall. Cat. 1135 : leaves cordate animlar 



scabrid above pubescent beneath, calyx downy cylindric tubular ^^^"i^^' 

 Wall Cat. 11192. Firmiana colorata var. ft Br. in Benn. Pl.Jav. mr. 

 235 ; Mig. FL Ind. Bat., i. pt. 2, 178. 



Tropical Western Himalaya ; Knmaon, alt. 2500 ft., StracL & Wint; Garwha^ 

 Falconer; Birma and the Eastern Peninsula. — Distrib. Java. 19 18 In 



A small tree. Leaves ample, 10 by 6 in., coriaceous ; petiole pubescent, 1^- • 

 Panicle erect, branches covered with rusty-stellate down, many-flowered, -r w ^^ 

 i-| ^w-, produced before the leaves, covered with yellowish down. Calyx-lobes o^a , 

 acute, 3-4 times shorter than the tube. Follicles stipitate. 



24. S. linear Icar pa, itfasf.; leaves glabrescent cordate suborbicula^ 

 panicle erect, peduncles thick compressed pilose, flowers dense, cai> 

 tubular-campanulate pilose lobes ovate acute, follicles linear-lanceoia 

 yellow downy, , .- . ;^v 



Malacca, Maingay. ^ ^.^ 



A tree. Leaves 6-12 in. each way, ample, coriaceous, entire, 7-nerved, "^^^niMiv 

 minent beneath; petiole 3-8 in., apex thickened. Fanicle terminal, ^rect, ni j 

 flowered, rusty-pubescent, as long as the leaves; pedicels spreading, jointed. ^«^ ^^ 

 huds globose. Calyx J-j in., tube cylindric, limb rotate-campanulate ; lobes as long 

 the tube. Staminal column slender. Follicles 3-4 in. 



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Sect. III. Pterygrota, Undl. (gen.). 



winged at the apex, albuminous, radicle ii< 



Follicles woody. Seeds many> 



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25. S. alata, Boxb. Eort. Beng. 50 ; PI Cor. iiL 84, t. 287 ; ^-J^^ 



rdatfi nvnfo nfiito rrinV,7-/Mic, fl.itvers nearly 1 m. ""p 



r/ 1125 Pterygota 1^0*' 



burghii, iichotrd- Endl~ Ahkl T7a!ata, "Br."' in^ Benn. PL •>^5?^; ^^x* S 



ill. 152; leaves cordate ovate acute glabrous, flowers nearly n,,^, 



tomentose, wing of seed large spongy. Wall. Cat. 1125. Pterygota i^u^ 



S. coccinea, Wall. Cat. 1122 partly? " S.' HeyniV, Beddome Flor. Sylvat- 1. 230, 



SiLHET and CfiiTTAooNo, Roxhurgl ; Westekn Peninsula ; Tinnevelly, ^T^^^ 

 A large tree ; herbaceous portions coverea with dense golden pubescence. -^"V g^,, 

 coloured: Leaver 4-10 by 3-7 in., clustered about the ends of the l"-anche8, sud 

 branous, 7-nerved ; petiole 1-4 in. ; stipules subulate. Panicles from t*»;^^.!f „„. 

 axils few-flowered, shorter than the leaves. Bracteoles caducous. Calyx^ i^iumn 

 late, densely tomentose, deeply 5-parted, segments liuear-lanceolate. Stamir>a^ 

 5 the length of the calyx. ? flowers : ovaries 5, sessile ; style recurved ; o'"7^ (.gnce 

 rous. FolUcles 5, 5 in. diam , globose, depressed, woody, clothed with m^aly P«^ ,^ ^j 

 outside, corky within. Seeds many, oblong, compressed, wing 2 in. a"*^ "P t^ium.^ 



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