Sterculia.] xxu, stercultace.e. 229 



8. S. trichosiphon, JSenlh. A tree, quite glabrous, leafless when in 

 flower. Leaves 4 to 8 in. long and broad, more or less deeply cut into 5 or 

 rarely 7 palmate lobes, sometimes broad and shortly acuminate, sometimes 

 lanceolate ^vith long points, and glabrous on both sides. Eacemes short, 

 mostly simple. Calyx narrow, tubular-canipanulate, about f in. long, the 

 lobes lanceolate, spreading, much shorter than the tube. Staminal column 

 swollen and hairy in the middle. Stigma peltate. Follicles shortly stipitate, 

 glabrous, oblong-triangular, 2 to 3 in. long. — TrichoBiphon aiidrale, Schott, 

 Melet. 34; Brachi/cJuion platmiouhs, E. Br. in Benn. PL Jav. Ear. 234. 



N. Australia. Abel Tasmaii river, F. Mueller ; Nicol Bay, /'. Gregory. 



Queensland. Northumberland Island {R.Browri)y Bardekin and Suttor and Dawson 

 rivers, F, Mueller ; Wide Bay, BidwilL Tiie few flowers I have seen were much damaged 

 by insects. J have not seea 11. Brown's speeimens. 



, 9. S. acerifolia. A, Cunn, in Loud. IIorL Brit 393 {partly). A large 

 timber-tree, quite glabrous. Leaves on low^ petioles, deeply 5- or 7-lobed; 

 lobes oblong-lanceolate or almost rbomboid, occasionally deeply sinuate, the 

 ^^hole leaf often 8 or 10 in. diameter, thin but shining, and glabrous on both 

 sides. Flowers of a rich red, in loose axillary racemes or small panicles of 2 

 ^^ 3 in. Calyx broadly campanulate, f in. long, quite glabrous, with short 

 tiJ'oad lobes, vidvate in the bud. Ovary raised on a short column, quite gla- 

 y\ *^^^ carpels quite distinct, and the styles scarcely cohering at the broad 

 i'a(Uating stigmas. Follicles lar^-e, on long stalks, quite glabrous.-^-Brac/^3^- 

 C'nton acerifolinm, F. Muell. Fra^m. i, 1, and ii. 177. 



f a v^' ^'^^^^s. lUawarra, A. Cimningham, M' Arthur, where it is known by the name 

 ot Flame-t.-ee ;" Maclcuy aiul Clarence rivers, Beckler, 



10. S. diversifolia, G. Bon, Gciu Syd. i. 516. A tree of from 20 to 

 ^^*^*' qidte glabrous except the flowers. Leaves on long petioles, glabrous 

 '^uU shining, either entire and from ovate to ovate-lanceolate, or more or less 

 deeply 3- or rarely 5-lobed, the 2 lateral lobes sometimes very short, some- 

 <-imes all lanceolate, 2 or 3 in. lono- the simple leaves or their lobes aluays 



exceeding the 



endmg in long points. Flowers iu axillary panicles, rarely ex 

 leaves. Calyx very broadly campauulate, slightly tomcntosc when young, 

 attaniiug when fully out 7 'to 9 lines diameter, acutely lobed to the middle, 

 ot a yellowish-white and glabrous except the ciliate margins outside, reddish 

 ^t^d glabrous within. Staminal cohunn also glabrous. Ovary slightly to- 

 mentose. Follicles nearly ovoid, \\ to 2 oi even 3 in. long, thick and gla- 

 *^^'^us, on stalks of 1 to 2 in., the emlocarp and outer coating of the seeds 

 J^^O' sliortly hirsute and coherins:. — Tmcilodtiruil^ popitlnea, Schott, Melet. 

 pf ; BracJf^rh'tton popalmum, R. Br. in Benn. PI. Jav. Ear. 234 ; F. Mnell. 

 A^- \ict. i, 156, andSuppl. 5. 



Queensland. Dawson river, JP. Mueller; Rockhampton, Thozet ; in the interior, 



W a''' ^*^^^''*^''^S to whom the iintivcs oat the pods. 

 fold n '^*^^'*' ^^**^"* New England, C. Stuart, and Macleay river, Becker, to Two- 

 Ui^ny, F, Mueller ; in the interior, Fraser ; Lachlan river, A. Ounmngham, 

 Tir ,f' ^"*' Granite ran<;es oii Snowy River and its trihtifaries, and Hume river, F, 



^^ (^) occidenfalis. Leaves mostly ili^cply 3-lobed with iiarruw lobes, with the addition 

 "ictimes of short lateral lobes. Calvx rather smaller ami more toaicntosc than in the 



