28o XXIV. STERCULIACE^. [Heritiera. 



wood is veiy hard and compact, but rarely tall enough for beams. 

 Used for firewood. 



(2) H. elata Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 50, p. 112. 



Gigantic tree 100 ft. tall, 2 ft. through, with large buttresses 

 and grey flaky bark. Leaves elliptic obtuse, base rounded or 

 truncate, 4 in. long, 275 in. wide, coppery scaly beneath; nerves 5 

 pairs, elevate above, inconspicuous beneath; petioles '25 to '5 in. 

 long. Panicles in axils of fallen leaves, 4 to 5 in. long, densely 

 stellate-hairy. Flowers pink. Calyx campanulate, shortly 5-lobed, 

 •5 in. long, stellate, hairy. Staminal column slender, much shorter; 

 anthers 5. Fruit on short woody peduncles, obovate, brown with 

 a sub-triangular blunt wing i'5 in. long; wing '5 in. long. Seed 

 oblong. Hah. Forests. Singapore, Botanic Gardens Jungle. 



7. KLEINHOVIA, Linn. 



A medium to small tree. Leaves ovate, often cordate. Panicle 

 lax, terminal. Bracts small. Sepals 5, much longer than the 

 petals, linear-lanceolate, deciduous. Petals 5, unequal, upper 

 ovate saccate, middle pair concave obliquely oblanceolate, lower 

 flat with convolute edges. Stamens 20, in 5 fascicles of 3 each, 



5 solitary free, often reduced to filaments between the fascicles; 

 filaments all joined below into a hairy cylindric tube; anthers 

 4-celled. Ovary on a long gynophore, 5-lobed, 5-celled. Capsule 

 turbinate-pyriform, membranous, inflated. Seeds i or 2 in each 

 cell, tubercled. Species i. Old World tropics. 



(i) K. Hospita Linn. Sp. PI. 1365 ; Masters, in Hook. fil. F.B.I. 

 i. 364; Pierre, Fl. For. Cochinchine, t. 177; King, I.e. 80. 



A shrub or small tree 20 or more ft. tall. Leaves ovate-round 

 acuminate 2*5 to 5 in. long; petioles 1*5 to 2'5 in. long. Panicle 



6 to 12 in. long. Flowers "4 in. long, pink. Hab. Banks of streams 

 and open country, local, not common. Singapore (Wallich, 

 Kunstler). Johor, Pulau Aor (Feilding). Malacca (Griffith). 

 Perak, Kwala Dipang (Curtis) ; Kwala Kangsa ; Chenderiang 

 (Kunstler) . 



8. HELICTERES, Linn. 



Shrubs, rarely trees, more or less stellate-pubescent. Leaves 

 simple. Flowers pink or white, solitary or fascicled, axillar}^ 

 Calyx tubular, 5-fid often irregular. Petals 5, clawed, unequal or 

 equal, claws often auriculate. Staminal-column 5-lobed or toothed 

 anthers 2-celled ; staminodes below the top of the column 5. Ovary 

 on the gynophore at the top of the column, 5-lobed, 5-celled 

 styles subulate, thickened at tips; ovules many. Follicles woody 

 spirally twisted or straight. Seeds tubercled. Species about 30 

 tropics of both worlds. 



