276 XXIV. STERCULIACE^. [Scaphiunt. 



The seed, immersed in water for a night, exudes a gum, cont^iining 

 Bassorin, to such an extent as to fill a small cup. This, mixed with 

 sugar-candy, is eaten as a stomachic, and is very pleasant and 

 wholesome. 



(3) S. longiflorum Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. y^, p. 143. 



Tree. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-rounded, shortly acuminate 

 blunt, beneath sometimes glaucous ; nerves strongly elevate, 

 7 pairs, reticulations large, distinct beneath, 4*5 to 6 in. long, 

 2"8 to 3 in. wide; petioles 2 to 2"i in. long. Panicles 6 in. long, 

 sparingly red-tomentose compact, much-branched. Flowers numer- 

 ous, glabrous ; pedicels "i in. long. Calyx -3 in. long, tube cylindric 

 *2 in. long, lobes ovate. Stamen-column longer densely woolly, 

 stamens 8, t)acks woolly. Fruit unknown. Hab. Forests. Perak 

 (Scortechini) ; Waterfall Hill (Wray) ; Gunong Bubu (Kunstler). 



Differs from S. affiiie Masters in the less woolly panicle, much longer flowers 

 and long woolly stalk to the head of stamens ; the leaves are smaller and 

 more coriaceous. 



3. PTEROCYMBIUM, Benn. 



Trees. Leaves entire or lobed. Flowers unisexual. Calyx 

 campanulate. Male, staminal column tall with 8 or 10 sessile 

 anthers in a ring. Female, with abortive anthers, otherwise as in 

 male, and 5, rarely 6 pistils on the tip of a column, sessile, distinct. 

 Styles as many, slightly cohering. Stigmas recurved. Carpels 

 4 to 6 foliaceous, boat-shaped, unequally bilobed, opening before 

 they are ripe, on short pedicels on a gynophore as long as the 

 enlarged persistent calyx. Seed at base i. Species 2, Burma, 

 Nicobars, Malaya. 



Leaves ovate acuminate sometimes lobed, cordate. 



Calyx campanulate . . . . . . (i) P. javanicum 



Leaves oblong-elliptic, base round not cordate. 



Calyx tubular (2) P. tubulatuin 



(i) P. javanicum R. Br. Benn. PI. Jav. Rar. 219, t. 45. 

 Sterculia campanulata Wall., MSS. ; King, I.e. 76. 



Tree 50 to 70 ft. tall, 15 to 20 in. through, leafless in flower. 

 Leaves ovate or oblong-ovate acute or acuminate, glabrous above 

 pubescent or hairy on the nerves beneath or quite glabrous, base 

 cordate or rounded, 4 to 7 in. long, 4 in. wide ; petioles 1*5 to 4-2 in. 

 long. Panicles i to 3 in. long in flower, enlarging very much in 

 fruit. Calyx -5 in. long, glabrous, campanulate, lobes broad lanceo- 

 late, '2 in. long, I in. wide, tube as long, coriaceous green, edges 

 velvety. Stamen-column as long as the sepals ; anthers linear 

 curved. Follicles membranous 3 to 6 on a gynophore as long as 

 the enlarged sepals, with pedicels pubescent, "5 in. long, boat-shaped, 

 2 to 3 in. long, with 2 lobes, the lower broad, rounded, the upper 



