370 xxvii. STERCULiACEiE. (Maxwell T. Masters.) [Pterospermum, 



toothed near the apex, feather-nerved ; petiole ^ in., downy. Peduncle longer than tie 

 petiole, jointed in the middle. Bracteoles and flowers not^ seen. ^ Capsule 2 by 1 in.j 

 covered with squarish truncated tubercles. — Very distinct in its curiously tubercled fruit 





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Trees. Leaves simple or lobed, downy or stellate-tomentose beneatn. 

 Fed U7ides sixilUvy ^ l-many-flowered. Bracteoles 3-5, laciniate, or small and 

 caducous. Calyx^ at first spathaceous, ultimately 5-parted. Petals flat, witn 

 dilated tomeutose claws. Staminal column short, bearing externally nu- 

 merous linear-oblong 2-celled anthers, in many series, cells parallel otoi;; 

 nodes 0- Ovary sessile, 5-10-celled; style erect, stigmas 5-10 spreading; 

 ovules many in each cell. Capsule woody, loculicidal. iSeeds winged above; 

 albumen thin, cotyledons plaited or contortuplicate, radicle nexttue 

 hilum.— A genus of 7 or 8 exclusively Asiatic species. J" 



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1. E. Wallichii, DC. Mem. Mm. x, t. 5; leaves ovate or _ 

 acuminate 7-nerved base cordate, peduncles 1-flowered, bracteoles pinnau- 

 sect, sepals lanceolate, style pilose. Wall. Cat. 1174, C. Gumsia hurta, 

 Ham. in Wail. Cat. p. 157, 1174, B. 



NiPAL, WallicL , .. 



A shrub, herbaceous portions shaggy-tomentose. Leaves 4-8 by 6 in-, ^'"^"^ * 

 serrate, pilose above, stellate-tomentose beneath ; petiole 1-2 in. Stipules "^ar^^ "*'* 

 leafy, lanceolate, with acute lobes. Beduncles villous, shorter than the leaf. -^^^V 

 2^ in, diani. Sepals lanceolate, floccose-tomentose outside, villous wiihm. 'J'^w . 

 orbicular, with a narrow hairy claw. Column glabrous. Fruit not seen. 



ii&ii, Hook M. €t ThoTns. ms.: leaves roundish subacuminate 



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Western Pexixsula; Coxcan, Stocls. ^ - r q ;« 



A shrub, bark purplish, herbaceous portions stellate -hairy. Leaves 4-5 ^7^1 



crenate, stellate-hairy above, pubescent beneath ; petiole 2 in. Stipules s"^^'^^; 



Flower 14 in. diam. Sepals cuspidate, glandular at the base within. P*^tals spa ^^^^ 



late. Ovary 10-lobed. Fruit not seen. ..-■ 



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 rrate base cordate, peduncles man v-flowered 



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Western Peninsula; the Concan, Nilghiri, and Pulney Mts., Wight; Behab, 

 1-4000 ft., 7. D. H, .g]j^te- 



A tree, herbaceous portions stellate-downy. i^??e.*? 4 in. each way, thinly j^. 



hairy or glabroscent above, rusty-tomentose beneath, nerves proniuicnt ^ , ^^^^^ 

 petiole 2 in. Peduncle longer than the petiole, stellate-hairy, at 1®"^^ .f y^yed; 

 Flowers 2 in. diam. Sepals narrow-lanceolate. Capsule 1 in., ovoid, pointed, i^ ; ,. 

 valves downy, tubercled or pitted, villous at the inner angle. -.■J 



4. E. Candollel, Wall. PL As, Rar. i 51, t. 64; C^"^' ^^^^^JtS^ 

 ovate acuminate base cordate lobes rounded, peduncles niany-noT^re , 

 teolespinnatitid pubescent, style glabrous. Dalz. § Gibs. Borab.^f^ ^ ^ ^j^^ 



' Birma; Mountains of Prome, Wallich; Western Peninsula; Ram ^/^^ 

 Concun, DalzeU. Bhotan? Herb, Griffith. ' ; '^'^ ' v . 4 ?n CPP*^ 



'^ *^^-^? ^ark grey, herbaceous portions stellate-hairy. Leaves 5 by ^'^.^u*"* 

 imaUcf, palmately S-^nerved, stellate- hairy above, grey-pubescent beneaiu, 



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