STERCULIACEiE. 



Nat. syst. ed. 2. p. 92. 



CAVALLIUM. 



Calyx 5-lobed, campanulate, erect. Stamens united into a short 

 cup, which is contracted in the middle and at the end decan- 

 drous, half the stamens being longer than the others. Styles short 

 consolidated. Stigma 5-lobed. Follicles 5, coriaceous, few- 

 seeded. Seeds large. — Indian trees with cordate lobed leaves, 

 and panicles of numerous small flowers. 



269. C. urens Schott. meletem. 33. — Sterculia urens Roxb. 

 Corom. pi. i. t. 24. DC. prodr. i. 483. W. and A. i. 63.— 

 Mountainous parts of the coast of Coromandel, Hindostan, &c. 

 (Bulee, Hind.) 



Trunk erect, very straight, top large and shady. Bark light ash- 

 coloured, very smooth ; its outer coat thin, transparent, covered with 

 a farinaceous substance, and peeling off like the exterior pellicle of the 

 birch bark; inwardly fibrous, and netted. Leaves about the extre- 

 mities of the branches, alternate, petioled, 5-lobed, 5-nerved; lobes 

 acute, very downy, from 9 to 12 inches each way. Petioles nearly as 

 long as the leaves, round, downy. Panicles terminal, pretty large, 

 covered with a glutinous, farinaceous, yellow down. Bracts lanceolate. 

 Flowers small, numerous, yellow, male and hermaphrodite mixed. 

 Hermaphrodite; calyx campanulate, 5-toothed, leathery; divisions 

 acute ; with an obcordate hairy gland on the inside of each division 

 near the base. Corolla none. Filaments 10, alternately longer, 

 united below into a thin sheath. Anthers 2-lobed, alternately larger. 

 Ovary 5-lobed. Style single, short, thick. Stigma 5-lobed. Follicles 

 covered with yellow down, and many stiff stinging hairs. Seeds 3-6. 

 — Yields a gum extremely like Tragacanth, as which it has actually 

 been imported. Royle. 



STERCULIA. 



Calyx deeply 5- parted, spreading. Tube of stamens long, 

 cylindrical, expanded at the apex into a 5-lobed cup, each lobe 

 having 3 teeth and 3 anthers. Styles united, abruptly recurved. 

 Follicles subsessile, many-seeded. — An Indian tree with pal- 

 mate leaves, and red stinking racemose flowers. 



270. S. fcetida Linn, sp.pl. 1431. DC. prodr. i. 483. W. and 

 A 63. Schott. meletem. 32.— {Bumf, iii.t. 107.)— Continent and 

 islands of India. 



Leaves compound, peltate ; leaflets 7-9, oblong, lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, when young slightly pubescent, when old smooth. Flowers 

 135 K 4 



