154 MONADELPHIA DODECANDRIA, Sterculia, 
A native of the mountainous countries to the eastward of 
Bengal. Flowermg time, the beginning of the hot season, 
Trunk straight. Bark smooth. Branches few, spreading. 
Leaves alternate, petioled, roundish, or cordate-lobate, five- 
nerved ; there are generally from five to seven acute, long- 
pointed, lobate lobes; when young very downy, particularly 
underneath, from twelve to eighteen inches each way. Pe- 
tioles round, as long as the leaves, or longer, downy. Sti- 
pules lanceolate-cordate, downy, caducous.  Panicles termi- 
nal, the longer pendulous, the shorter drooping, or diverg- 
ing; every part covered with rust-coloured down, Flowers 
numerous, male and hermaphrodite mixed; the former by 
far the most numerous; all are pretty large; border of a pale 
yellow, or straw-colour, and the bottom of the bell pink. 
Bractes filiform, codutons Calyx sar tnaet pete 
downy. 
-Hermapnropite Fiowers. " Miechere ten, Swittobied: in- 
serted on the toothed edge of a membranaceous ring, which 
surrounds the base of the germs. Germs globular, elevated 
above the base of the corol by a curved cylindric column, 
Style single, the length of the germs, and recurved so much 
as to bring the five lobed stigma into contact with the anthers. 
Capsules tive, or fewer, &c, as in the — and covered 
with soft, rust-coloured down. 
Mate Frowers. Calyx as im the emanate Sta- 
mens ; column, as long’ as the hermaphrodite,style and column 
taken together, hooked, apex a little enlarged for the recep- 
‘tion of ten small twin anthers round its margin, in their cen- 
tre, consisting of five glands, the representation of a pistil. 
12, S. feetida, Willd, ii, 874. 
Leaves digitate. 
‘Clompanus major. Rumph, Amb. iii. t. 107. but Karil, 
Rheed, Mal. iv. t. 36. is a Vitex, and I presume, leucoarylon. 
S. feetida, Sonnerat. Chin, ii. p. 234, t. 132. 
Tam. Kudra-plukku. - ee 
