154 MONADELPHIA DODECANDRJA. SterCuHa. 



A native of the mountainous countries to the eastward of 

 Bengal. FK)weving- time, the beginnino- 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 die bottom of the bell pink. 

 Bractes filiform, caducous. Calyx campanulate, outside 



downy. 



Hermaphrodite Flowers. Outliers ten, two lobed, 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 five, or fewer, &c. as in the germs, and covered 

 with soft, rust-coloured down. 



Male Flowers. Calyx as in the hermaphrodite. Sta- 

 mens; colun)n,aslongas the hermaphrodite,style and column 

 taken together, hooked, apex a litde enlarged for the recep- 

 tion often small twin anthers round its margin, in their cen- 

 tre consistin" of five glands, the representation of a pistil. 



12. S.fa^tidn. Willd. ii. 874. 

 heaves digitate. 



Clompanus major. Rumpli. Jmh. iii. t. 107. but Karil, 

 Rheed. Mai. iv. t. 36. is a Vitex, and I presume, leucoxylon. 

 ^.J'mlida. Soimerat. Chin. ii. /). 2'U. t. 132. 

 T.\wi. Kudra-plukku. 



