f^ospermum.] xxvii. STERCULiACEiE. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 369 



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A tree, ^ ^SAoo/s slender, virgate, hoary. Leaves 3-6 by 1| in., glabrescent above, 

 covered with whitisli or cream-coloured tomentum beneath, nerves stellate-hairy ; petiole 

 very short. Stipules 2-3-fid, subulate-lanceolate, as long as the petiole. Feawidcs 

 ralary, half the length of the leaves, dilated at the top. Floioerhuds oblong, striated. 

 J!u)tvers 2-3 in. diam., sweet-scented, white. Sepals linear, rusty-pubescent, villous 

 wiihin. Petals obliquely cuneate, longer than the sepals. Capsule 3 by l|-2 in., 

 elliptic, covered with light grey down. Seeds 2-4 in each cell. 



8. P, reticulatuniy W, & A. Prodr. i. 69 ; leaves pubescent beneath 

 oblong entire oi- coarsely toothed towards the apex acuminate 3-nerved 

 base cuneate, peduncles longer than the petioles, capsule oblong acute slightly 

 angular furrowed, seeds 4 in each cell. 



; Malabar; on the Naggar hills, Wight, 



♦ II *^^v'- ^^^^^^ ^ ^7 H i^'i coriaceous, whitish beneath, nerves prominent, rusty 

 stellate-hairy; petiole very short. Pedundes 3-flowered. Bradeohs S-sect, segments 

 fir^^' '^^^^^^^ li in. diam. Sepals linear-lanceolate. Pt^^aZs obovate oblong. Staminodes 

 iiuiorm. Ovary with about 6 ovules in each cell. Capsule 3 in., furfuraceous. 



i^l\^A ^®3^®^^^™j WalL Cat 1169; leaves oblong acuminate coarsely 



^ {c. t. 489. P. suberifolium, WUld, Sp. iU. 728; BoL Mag. 1526; 

 f / >r*'^^^' ^^^^.7. 50; Fl Ind, iii. 160. P. Lawianum, Nimmo m Grm. 

 W 77 n^' ^^' ^^^ ^ ^"^•^- ^ ^^^^' ■^^^*- ^- 2^' Pentaglottis suberifolia, 

 i^f , ^^^^' partly, Velaga xylocarpa, G(ertn, FrucL ii. 245, t. 133. 



' ™u?taiuous tracts throughout the Western Peninsula. 



\ 4 ?!^JJI«-sized tree, herbaceous portions rusty-tomentose. Leaves 4-^ hj 2-3^ In., 

 ■ ^y^y^^ m form and size, coriaceous rarely lobed or peltate, whitish beneath, nerves 



E"'f* 'rusty.pilose ; petiole pubescent. 



8^^^^;^^ gashed, ^i^wc.o i^^^^, 



point H Ti' oblong, revolute, hairy outside. Pe^aZs obovate, sprea 

 fnrnr n^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ less deeply furrowed at the sides, , a- * 



^ceous, afterwards glabrescent.— Ulie nervation of tte leaves varies in different 

 a{: "*^"s or even on the same ; when the leaves are entire the secondary nerves 



i in. Stipvles deciduous, ensiform. 



Flowe „ . ^ ' ' . " ^ . ' 



adiiig. Capsule 2 in., 



at first densely fur- 



^ arched, ^vhen 

 ^^Udary nerves r 



sJS ^" fflallJrescens, W.SA. Prodr. i. 69 ; leaves obovate stortly and 

 enHr!"^ acuminate base cuneate cordate or subpeltate 5-nerved, stipules 

 h^& P^^uncles as long as the petioles, capsule large oblong 5-a"f ^d 

 J^ed cells 10-12-seede(l WaU. Cat. 1169, partly. -Eli^ede Hort. Mai. vi. 



Hills of the Western Peninsula ; the Concan, Malabar, and Coromandel 

 aerve,?" • *'* ^ ^^ 34 in, coriaceous, glabrescent above, ashy pubescent beneath 

 Ch 'r:P"^"""«. rusty'pilose ; petiole %-{ in. Stipules ligulate, entire, half the 

 4frdi» %P'^*'"'«- BracteoleL\ec\Auol Flower-buds ovoid, ncute Flowers 

 «epai, ^- ^'P"^ linear-oblong, villous within. FttaU oblong, nearly as long as the 

 »ar, !' lS^*"'« S-6 in., stipitate, at flrst covered with floccose nistv tomentum, aUer- 

 to thk^ r^'P^^-It '« not quite certain that the flowers above descnbed belong really 

 ^tir TTf\ ^^''S»>t de.^ribes the stipules as palmate, but in his specimens they are 

 • A robably it is not distiMct from P. diversffolium, Bl. 



toi^v**; *»,Y*ttsifollum, WigM^ns.; leaves glabrescent above asliy tomen- 



ffonS^ "^^^ate oblong 1-ncrved apex 2-lobed base cuneate, capsule 



'f Obtuse tubercled downy. - ■^ ^ - 



*i-ABi* and thp r'.t.» n„....„ii„^ w^^l* - i^x. ■ ■■*'■" 



A trS^^''^ *^« Carnatic ; Courtallum, Wight. ' --.^ - 



n^; . ^''^^ 3-4 by 2i-3 in., coriaceous, slightly obUque, obscurely, and remotely 



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