40 

 STERCULIACE^. 



Sterculia brevipetiolata, sp. nov. 



A shrub or small tree 5 to 10 m. high, with membranous, short 

 petioled, glabrous, narrowly to broadly lanceolate or oblanceolate leaves, 

 slender, few flowered, drooping panicles 10 to 20 cm. long, the tips of the 

 calyx lobes slightly coherent. Branches slender, brownish gray, glabrous, 

 the tips usually densely ferruginous stellate pubescent. Leaves 10 to 22 

 cm. long, 2 to 5 cm. wide somewhat crowded at the apices of the branehlets, 

 tapering below to the narrow, abruptly obtuse or slightly cordate base, the 

 apex slender acuminate; nerves, 10 to 12 pairs; petioles 4 to 7 cm. long, 

 thickened, densely ferruginous stellate pubescent, the stipules persistent, 

 1 cm. long or less, subulate. Panicles slender, axillary, more or less ferru- 

 ginous stellate pubescent, the branches filiform, 1 to 4 flowered, the pedicels 

 1 to 2 cm. long. Flowers dull yellow, 7 to 10 mm. long, sparingly stellate 

 pubescent outside, the tube urceolate, about as long as the lobes, the 

 lobes 5, lanceolate, subulate, villous within. Male flowers : staminal column 

 slender, shorter than the calyx tube, slightly curved, bearing at its apex 

 about 8 broad, sessile anthers. Hermaphrodite flowers: ovary villous, the 

 anthers at the base, sessile or nearly so; style short, stout, pubescent. 

 Follicles coriaceous, 2 to 4, sessile, oblong, slightly curved, the apex 

 slightly acuminate, densely rusty pubescent outside, glabrous within, 5 to 

 7 cm. long, 2 cm. wide or less, the seeds 3 or 4, about 1.3 cm. long. 



Specimens examined Luzon, Province of Bataan, Lamao River (1907 

 Borden), September, 1904; (200 Barnes), January, 1904 (fruit); (6829 

 Elmer), November 1904. Pasacao, Province of Camarines Sur (60 Ahern), 

 February, 1902. Growing in hill forests at from 300 to 500 m. above the 

 sea. 



Sterculia montana, sp. nov. 



A tree about 10 m. high, with elliptical to obovate-elliptical, cordate, 

 very abruptly short acuminate leaves, glabrous above, densely pale, vel- 

 vety stellate pubescent beneath, and short, erect, few flowered panicles. 

 Branches striate, dark grayish brown pubescent, the tips densely rusty 

 pubescent. Leaves 9 to 13 cm. long, 6 to 8 cm. wide, subcoriaceous, shin- 

 ing above; nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, prominent beneath, 

 sparingly stellate pubescent, brown, in strong contrast to the pale surface 

 of the lamina; petioles about 3 cm. long, sparingly ferruginous stellate- 

 pubescent. Panicles 4 to 6 cm. long, slender, strict, narrow, erect, axil- 

 lary, the axis, short branches, and pedicels more or less stellate pubescent, 

 the branches 1 cm. long, few flowered, erect or ascending, mostly in the 

 upper part of the panicle. Flowers about 1 cm. long, densely ferruginous 

 pubescent, the tube urceolate, nearly as long as the lobes, the lobes 5, 

 hirsute within, not coherent at their tips. Male flowers: staminal column 

 very short, bearing numerous sessile anthers in a sessile mass. Her- 

 maphrodite flowers: gj^nophore short; ovaries o, pubescent; stigmas re- 

 curved; stamens numerous, sessile, surrounding the base of the ovaries. 

 Follicle unknown. 



