Stereulia, MONADELPHIA DODECANDRIA, 147 
shaped, mouth five-toothed. Foilicles smooth, inoeeeiiats 
opening long before the seeds are ripe. 
Teling. Karaka. 
A large tree, a native of the mountainous parts of Raja- 
mundree Cirear, 
Leaves deciduous during the cold season. It flowers in 
April, soon after the leaves make their appearance, and the 
seed ripens about the beginning of the rains, Trunk erect, 
growing to a very great size. Bark ash-coloured, and a 
little scabrous, Branches numerous, spreading, their bark 
smoother than on the trunk. Leaves alternate, about the ex- 
tremities of the branchlets, petioled, considerably broader 
than long, villous, five-lobed, five-nerved; Jobes acute, soft ; 
the leaves are generally, when full-grown, from nine to twelve 
inches broad and from six to nine long. Petioles round, a 
little downy, about nine incheslong, Séipzies erect, lanceo- 
late, inserted into the petiole near its base. Panicles terminal, 
small, numerous, red like corol, being covered with much red, 
stellate pubescence, when in flower the whole tree appears as 
if covered with numerous ramifications of red corol. Flowers 
numerous, about an inch long. Cadlya one-leaved. Tube 
clavate, leathery; mouth five-toothed, outside covered with 
red stellate hairs, withering. Corol none, Filaments scarcely 
any. Anthers about thirty, kidney-formed, sessile round the 
border of the extremity of the receptacle, cylindric, a little 
curved, of the length of the calyx, round and smooth, bearing 
five oval germs on the top, surrounded by the stamina, 
Styles five, short, recurved. Stigmas acute, Capsules, 
from one to five come to maturity, pedicelled, pendulous, 
leathery, smooth, opening on the inside, long before the seeds 
are ripe. Seeds, generally two, adhering one to each margin 
of the gaping follicle, alternate, about the size and — of 
a = field bean. 
4. Ss a R. 7 ; 
noes: cordate-oblong, acuminate. Pantin aia di. 
$2 
