TTaft/tma.] XXVII. STERcuLiACEiE. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 375 



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_ Commonin all the hotter parts of India, from Kumaon alt. 4000 ft. to Malacca and 

 tEFLOy.— DisTKiB. A wiJely diffused Tropical weed. 



. rerenuial, villous. Leaves 1-3 in., shortly petioled, cordate-ovate, oblong, obtuse, 

 miiiQa, plaited. Flowers yellow, \ in. Bracts narrow, villous. Sepals lanceolate, 

 acuminate. Petals longer than the sepals, stalked. . 



ABROMA 



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Trees or shrubs. Leaves cordate, ovate-oblong, serrulate, sometimes 

 snglecL Pedamles opposite the leaves, few-flowered. Sejmls 5, connate 

 jiear the base. Petals 5, purplish, concave below, prolonged above into a 

 iarge spoon-shaped lamina. 8taminal-cup of 5 fertile and as many sterile 

 9 7lf^!l^^' fertile filaments opposite the petals, 3-antheriferous ; anthers 

 globed, lobes divergent. Stamimdes longer than the fertile filaments, 

 ODtuse. Ooary sessile, pyramidal, 5-lobed ; cells many-ovuled ; styles 5. 

 #iT^i ^^nibranous, 5-augled, 5-winged, truncate at the apex, septi- 

 «iaally 5-valved, valves villous at the edges. Seeds numerous, albuminous; 

 embryo straight, cotyledons flat cordate, radicle next the hilum. 

 ^iSMiB. 2 or 3 species, natives of Tropical Asia. 



r V ^' a^STUSta, Linn. ; DC, Prodr. I 485; Roxh. Hort Beng. 50 ; FL 

 /'^'^h 156; Miq. FLlnd. Bat. i. pt. 2, \%Z\ BeddoimFlor.SylvaL Anal 



V^a '^ L^' ^' ^- Prodr. i. Go ; Wall. Cut. 1142. A. angulata, Lam. Ill, 

 n . -^- Wheeleri, Eetz. Obs, v, 27 : Willd, Sp. PI iii. 1425. A. fastuosum 

 k<^rtn, FrmL i. 307, t. 64. 



1^^-^*^^^^ spread, native or cultivated, throughout the hotter parts of India from the 

 - t>ETH West PKovixcEs to SiKKiM.alt. 3000 ft. ; Khasia Mrs. alt. 4000 ft., and Assam. 



All^^'^^•^*''''^' ^^ilwines, Chin^^ 

 vAsarub, branches downy. Leaves 4-6 by 4-5 in. repand-deuticulate, base 3-7-ncrved, 



SA^^i ^^.^''^^^ narrower, entire, glabrescent above, tomentose below ; petiole 4-1 in. 

 ■ y>M^€^ linear, deciduous as long as the petiole. Fedunde\\ in., axiliary. Fkwers 



1". diam. ^ Sepals 1 in., lanceolate, free nearly to the base. Fttals scarcely exceeding 

 « sepals imbricate in the bud, deciduous. <?a/?.?iiZe 1 4 in., obpyramidal ultimately 

 eworoud, thrice as long as the persistent calyx.— The bark yields good fibre. 





■^tree. Lea 



GUAZUMA 





S . ^^« middle, at first spatliaceous. Petals 5, concave at the base, 

 conr.^° • ^* ^^^ apex into 2 narrow strap-shaped processes. Stamens 1% 

 Wk •I'^^ a column which is tubular below, and consists above of 5 fertile, 

 onw^^'S^^^s filaments opposite the petals, and 5 lanceolate starainodes 

 S^S^J^ tJie sepals ; anthers 2-lobed, lobes divergent. (9iw/:y se.ssile, 5-Iobed, 



Carnal ' kf y^«« moi'e or less connate ; ovules numerous in each cell. 

 riP^^ie oblonsr. wnnr1,r t»K-.r..iorl T.oi:omhlin(y a mulbcrrv. Seed alba- 



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W^'a *on»entosa, Kimth ; LG. Prodr. I 485; ^Hl^ p; *' -J^l' 

 Bubl^'/^^^n I 64; Thwailes Enum.. 29; Beddom Fl bdvat i Uh. 

 SurrSf *«"i«'itosa, sWeng. Syst. iii 385. G. ulmifolia, Wdl. Cat. 1141 



warmer 



India an 



^^"giossum rufescens, Tarcz. in Flora 1853, 735. 



CETLr.!f 1 ^.*^****"''^*^'l **n(i frequently cultivated in th< . 



A trj; ^ ?''^^P« "nly introduced. -DiSTKiB. Java, Tropical Amenca. ^^ 

 Ute OKI-: H'-'^a^eous portions stellate-tomentose- Xeo«e« 3-4* by 2 in oblong- lanceo - 



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