ErioUna,] xxvii. sterculiace^. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 371 



dentate; petiole l|-3 in. Flowers crowded, yellow, l^in. Peduncles shorter than 

 the leaves. Sepals lanceolate, glandular within at the base, slightly exceeding the 

 Iracteoles. ^ Petals oblong, apex notched, claw thick, villous. ^Ovary ovoid ; style 

 gliihrous, stigmas 8-10, revolute. Capsule 2 by 1 in., woody,' ovoid, acute, beaked, 

 10-U>ed, 10-valved; valves oblong, acute, keeled or rounded at the back, villous or 

 rarely glabrous at the inner margin. Seeds oo imbricate ; embryo erect, cotyledons flat. 

 —iiit Bhotan plant may, when fuller material is accessible, prove to be distinct. 



♦* 



5. 



:hil 



V 



. Bpectabilis, Planch, in Herb. Hook.; leaves ovate acuminate 



base cordate, cymes many-fiowered panicled, bracteoles a little below the 

 flower linear entire rarely lobed, style pilose at the base. Wallichia specta- 

 bills, DC. Mem. Mus. x. 104, t. 6. Microlsena spectabiHs, Wall. Cat. 1173. 

 Uimsia tiliacea, Wall. Cat. 1173 D. a chloroxylon, i^aTw. in WaU. Cat. 

 5: 157, 1173, E. 



"^^'\TRAL Himalaya; Nipal, Wallich; Simla, Well, 



- A shrub or small tree, young shoots stellate-hairy. Leaves 3-4 by 14 in., unequally 

 serrate, 7-9-nerved, scabrid above, ashy-pubescent beneath ; petiole 2 in. Stipules 

 capillary. Peduncles longer than the leaves ; ultimate pedicels stellate-hairy, nearly as 



ong as the flower. Flowers 2 in. diam., sulphur-coloured. Buds oblong. Calyx at 



nrst spathaceous, ultimately 5-parted ; sepals linear-lanceolate. Petals obovate-spatbii- 



wte claw thick, villous. Ovary ovoid, villous, oo -celled; stigmas x. Capsule 14 in., 



■f ^» oblong; valves obtuse, 'tubercled, villous at the inner angle.— Yields a fibre fit 

 'or rope-making. 



®' ^' q^lnquelocularis, Wight under Ic. t. 882 ; Ic. Index 36 ; leaves 



^undish toothed apex acute shortly acuminate base cordate, bracteoles a little 



?!in?^^ irom the flower minute caducous entire or lobed, style hairy stigma 



y 0-lobed, Bedd. Fl. Sylvat. A nal Gen. t. 5. Microchlaena quinqueloculans, 



fr^^^ Prodr. I 71. M. flavescens, Garcke in FL Hohenach No. 1533. 



OnS^^ «lt- 1-4000 ft., /. D. H,; Western Peninsula, Nilghiri mts., Gardner; 

 ^^^^^^^i^T, Wight ; Concan, Dalzell; Belgaum Ghats, Ritchie, 



Vnt 1 ' herbaceous portions stellate-hairy. Leaves 2|-3 in. each way, palmately 

 "X ' -1°^^ stellate-hairy or glabrescent above, whitish and softly pubescent be- 

 leavf' P^Vi s2in. Cymes at the end of the branches; peduncles longer than the 

 P/o)r V ,^*^"^^^^^ ' pedicels shorter than the flower, jointed above the midd e. 

 W^rj\^' ovate-oblong. Sepals | in., lanceolate, stellate-hairy, glandular at the 

 tbrl. 1 "" ^^^^^^ equalling the sepals ; claw broad, pubescent. Column as long as 

 aottnl^ i /^'^""^''^ revolute. Capsule 1] in., oblong, pointed, 5-10-vaIved; valves 

 uoercled, usually villous at the inner angle. Seeds numerous. 



9. PEIfTAPETES, Linn. 



ducrn?^* J-^?^^ bastate-lanceolate. Flowers axillary. Bradeoks 3 ca- 

 Siaml' ^^^"I'^^te. Se2>als 5, lanceolate, connate at the base. Petah <>. 



L L 



%ith «^ .. ' .—^ c^^ tnc oix>,M, 10 iertii« 111 5 groups (of 3 cacli) alternating 

 extrnr« "^'"^"^ «s, whicli are nearly as lung as the petals -anthers 2-celled, 

 and tS i ^^?''^ sessile, 5-celled, cells many ovuled ; style entire, twisted 

 .CJS''^'^ upwards, stigmas 5 minute. Capsule locuhcidally 5-valved. 

 radiclJI ? ^-seriate in each cell, not winged; cotyledons plaited 2 partite, 

 . ■ mtenor.—A single species, widely distributed in tropical Asia. 



WaU%' P|»«nlcea, Linn. ; Roxb. Fl Ind. iii. 157 ; W.& A. Prodr. i 67 ; 

 Ca7*nf • M57, 2, 3, 4 ; Mia. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 190. Dombeya phoemcca, 



'^m lu. t. 43^ I \.—I^ieede, ILyrt. Mai. x. t. 56. t r^ i 



?£j«2°"' tie hotter parts of India, from the PanJAB to.BiBMA and the Wesierk 





BB2 



'^'■- J^ ^.:. ^■.■.-' .. ■■-■" .?.. ■.-.,- 



' •'-- -'-■, -" -; : ■■ '■ ,.-■■■'.• ,■.■-. ■■ ...■. 



-,( .:■' 



