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prodeuntes, simplices, pedunculatæ, globulares, multifloræ. Bractea parva, ovata, concava infra pedunculum communem pedicellosque. 
Frores e viridi lutescentes, hermaphroditi. Catyx parvus 5- (4—6-) partitus; lacinie rotundatæ, ciliate, persistentes. PETALA 5 (4—6) 
ovata, patentia. FILAMENTA subulata, incurva, laciniis calycinis petalisque numero æqualia. Ovanruw rotundatum, sulcatum. SryLus 
nullus. STIGMA peltatum, 5—8-lobum. Bacca globularis, carnosa, subpellucida, glabra, nitida, rufescens, magnitudine seminis Piperis 
nigri, suffulta, calyce persistente, vestigio stigmatis coronata. PLACENTA centralis, columnaris. SEMINA 5—8, dorso convexa, 3-sulcata, 
latere interiore acutê angulato, coloris melini, subdiaphana, 
INTEGUMENTUM interius membranaceum. PERISPE 
Colebr. MSS. 
obtecta arillo membranaceo. PUTAMEN osseum, fragile, hinc trisulcatum. 
RMUM cavitati seminis confornie, carnoso-oleosum, album. EMBRYO minutus, erectus.— 
Mr. H. Colebrooke has had the goodness to favour me with the preceding account, as well as with the drawing from 
which the engraving was taken. “The late Dr. Hamilton called this plant Mea rotunda in his herbarium, and quotes 
both that species and Z. asiatica with a doubt in his unpublished Catalogue; but it is probably different from both. 
Plate CCLXI. Fig. 1—3. Flower. 4. Umbel of berries. 5. A detached berry. 6. The same, divided transversely. 
STERCULIA ROXBURGHIANA. Tab. 262. 
Foris oblongo-lanceolatis, acuminatis, integerrimis, glabris; floribus longé pedicellatis, racemosis, laciniis lanceo- 
latis, patentibus, acutis, distinctis ; folliculis oblongis, villosis, 4—8-spermis. 
Sterculia lanceofolia, Roxb. Hort. Beng. et MSS. (haud S. lanceolata Cavan.) 
Habitat in Sillet et in montosis contiguis. In Hortum Calcuttensem introduxit M. R. Smith; specimina sicca 
miserunt De Silva et Gomez. Floret Martio et Aprili; fructificat Majo et Junio. | 
Anson mediocris trunco ramisque cinereis; ramuli teretes, uti folia primiim breviter pubescentes, demüm glabri. Form patentia, 
approximata, sparsa, oblongo-lanceolata, attenuato-acuminata, integerrima, basi obtusa nunc obsoleté retusa, membranacea, 4—8-polli- 
caria, lævia, suprà nitida, subtüs costa nervisque valde obliquis anastomosantibus, gracilibus, pallidis. ‘Perroty graciles, pollicem vel 2 
longi, utráque extremitate cylindraceo-tumidi, demòm glaberrimi. StiruLæ parvæ, subulatæ, crassæ, gibbosæ, valde deciduæ. RACEMI 
simplices, subsessiles, solitarii, axillares, vel infra folia sparsi, iisdem breviores, tenuiflori, patenti-nutantes, 4-pollicares. PEDUNCULUS 
filiformis, teres, pedicelligue capillacei, longi, bipollicares, alterni, pubescentiâ stellata, tenui conspersi. BRACTEOLA minute, lineares 
per pedicellos sparse. Fores coccinei, extüs levitèr pubescentes, plurimi masculi. PERIANTHH subcampanulati Zaciniæ lanceolate, 
acute, patentes, planæ, distinctæ, unguiculares. ÅNTHERÆ paucæ congestæ in capitulum parvulum, suffultum stipite declinato, gracili, 
perianthio tertid breviore. Fouuicuur 1—5 oblongi, obtusi, 3-pollicares, pubescentiâ brevi asperuli. SEMINA 4—8 ovalia. INTEGUMENTA 3 ; 
erterius fragile, nigrum, nitidum ; medium tenue, fuscum; interius membranaceum, pallidè ferrugineum; inter exterius et medium 
invenitur lamina mollis, fuscescens, sebacea. PERISPERMUM parcum. Empryo rectus, pallide flavus; cofyledones crasse, carnosæ, mag- 
nitudine fer? perispermi ; radicula in apice seminis, extremitati umbilicali opposito locata, ovata. 
The foregoing account of this elegant and very distinct species has been chiefly derived from the manuscript of 
Dr. Roxburgh, after whom I have called the tree, in order to prevent the name Sterculia lanceofolia which he had 
given to it being confounded with Cavanilles's S. lanceolata. 
VALERIANA HARDWICKII. Tab. 263. 
Valeriana Hardwickii Wall. in Roxb. Flor. Ind. vol. 1. p. 166. Decand. Prodr. Syst. Nat. Regn. Veget. vol. 4. 
p. 640. 
V. Hardwickiana Roem. et Schult. Syst. Veg. Mant. 1. p. 259. 
Valeriana, Hardwicke in Act. Soc. Asiat. Calc. vol. 6. p. 350, | 
Habitat in montibus Napaliæ, Kamaon et Sirmore. In montibus Sillet (DeSilva et Gomez). Florens et fructifera 
ferê toto anno. 
Since publishing my account of this species in Roxburgh's work I have met with it in the forests of Nipal, where 
it grows ie abundance, and is in flower and fruit almost the whole year round. While I resided in that country it 
wa also brought to me by my collecting parties from the road leading to Gossain Than. Its usual height is two or 
three feet. 
