148 MONADELPHIA DODECANDRIA, Sterculia. 
verging. Tube of the calyx gibbous, with the apices of its 
segments united, and the sides gaping. 
Hind, Ram-julparee. 
A middling sized tree, a native of the hills east of Tippera. 
In flower in March. 
5. S. angustifolia. R. 
Leaves \anceolate. Panicles lateral, pendulous. Flow- 
ers globular; segments of the calyx united at the top, gaping 
at the side, 
_A middling sized tree, a native of Nepal. It flowers in 
the Botanic garden in March, when the new foliage begins 
to appear, the former year’s having fallen during the cool 
season, indeed all the Sterculias are deciduous in Bengal. 
6.S. populnifolia. R. ; 
Leaves long-petioled, round, reniform, cordate, ieaaaaT, 
entire, smooth, from five to seven-nerved, 
_ A tree, a native of Coromandel, The bark is particularly 
smooth in our young trees. ; 
9. S. guttata. R. 
Leaves oblong, entire, villous aaderiiaie Racemes ter- 
minal, and from the fork of the branches, simple. 
Ramena-pou-maram, Rheed. Mal. iv. t. 61. 
A native of Malabar, from Wynaad Captain Dickenson 
sent the seeds to the Botanic garden in 1802, and the young 
trees reared therefrom, blossomed for the first time in De- 
cember 1809. They were then about twenty feet high, and 
the trunk twenty-one inches in circumference, four feet above 
the ground, : 
Trunk straight to the top of the trees, Bark = dunia 
cracked, and no doubt in old trees much so; that of the young 
parts smooth, ash-coloured ; young shoots clothed with stellate. 
down, inwardly it abounds with very strong, white, flaxen 
fibres, of which the inhabitants of Wynaad manufacture a 
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