148 MONADELPIIIA DODECANDRIA. Stercului. 



verging. Tube of the calyx gibbous, with the apices of its 

 segments united, and the sides gaping'. 



Hind. R-.ini-julparee. 



A luiddling-sized tree, a native of the hills eastof Tippera. 

 In flower in March. 



5. S. angnstij'olia. R. 



Leaves lanceolate. Ptlnicles lateral, pendulous. Floiv- 

 ers globular; segments of the calyx united at the top, gaping 

 at the side. 



A middling sized tree, a native of Nepal. It floAvers 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 Sierculias are deciduous in Bengal. 



6. S. popiilnijolia. R. 



Leaves long petioled, round, reniform, cordate, acuminate, 

 entire, smooth, from five to seven-nerved. 



A tree, a native of Coromandel. The bark is particularly 

 smooth in our young trees. 



7. S. guttata. R. 



Leaves oblong, entire, villous underneath. Racemes ter- 

 minal, and from the fork of the branches, simi)!e. 



Ramena pou-maram. Rlieed. Mai. iv. t. Gl. 



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. ^«rZ- considerably 

 cracked, and no doubt in old trees much so ; that of the young 

 parts smooth, ash-coloured ; younff shoots clothed with stellate 

 down, inwardly it abounds with very strong, m hite, flaxen 

 fibres, of which the inhabitants of Wynaad manufacture a 



