Melochia.] xxiv. sterculiace.^. 285 



(2) M. velutina Bedd. Fl. Sylvat. t. 5 ; Masters, I.e. i. 374 ; 

 King, I.e. 88. 



A large shrub or almost a tree. Young parts pubescent. Leaves 

 ovate cordate or truncate acute serrate, sprinkled with tufted hairs 

 above, more densely pubescent hairy beneath 4-5 to 5 in. long, 3'5 in. 

 wide ; petioles 2*5 in. long, pubescent. Panicles axillary pubescent 

 about 4 in. long. Flowers small, pink with yellow centre, crowded 

 at branch tips, "25 in. across. Calyx pale woolly, campanulate, 

 5-lobed half-way, lobes broad acute. Petals twice as long, oblong. 

 Ovary 5-celled, 5-styled. Capsule oblong, 5-angled, bristly, '5 in. 

 long. Seeds solitary, winged. Hah. Open country, especially in 

 rocky sandy spots. Pahang. Temerloh (Foxworthy). Selangor, 

 Ginting Bidai; Negri Sembilan, Bukit Tangga Pass (Ridley). 

 Perak, Kwala Kangsa (Kunstler). Lankawi. Perhs, Kanga. 

 Distrib. India, Malay Archipelago. Native names : Tampu ; Singa. 



12. WALTHERIA, Linn. 



Shrubby plants. Leaves usually dentate. Stipules narrow. 

 Flowers small yellow, in axillary and terminal clusters. Sepals 5, 

 connate in an obconic tube with free points. Petals 5, oblong- 

 spathulate, clawed. Stamens 5, connate in a tube at base. Ovary 

 sessile, i-celled ; ovules 2 ; style excentric. Stigma clubbed, 

 penicillate. Capsule 2-valved. Seed i. Species about 20, mostly 

 American. 



Erect, twiggy; leaves oblong 2 by 75 in. long . . (i) W. indica 



Prostrate; leaves ovate-oblong -5 in. long . . • (2) W. arenaria 



(i) W. indica Linn. Sp. PI. 673 ; Hook. fil. F.B.I, i. 374. 



Shrub 3 ft. tah, softly tomentose. Leaves oblong blunt, 2 to 

 3 in. long, -5 in. wide, edge dentate; nerves prominent; petioles 

 •5 in. long. Heads of flowers -5 in. through ; peduncle -3 in. long. 

 Bracts lanceolate, densely hairy. Sepals lanceolate. Corolla 

 yellow, -25 in. long. Hah. Sea-shore ; rare. Malacca, Pulau Besar 

 (Griffith and Maingay). Distrih. Tropics generally. 



(2) W. arenaria Ridl. Journ. F.M.S. Mus. x. 130. 



Wiry prostrate creeping plant. Branches slender tomentose, 

 about 2 ft long. Leaves ovate-elliptic serrate ; nerves 3 or 4 pairs, 

 elevate, -5 to 75 in. long, -25 to -3 in. wide ; petioles -25 in. long. 

 Flower heads -3 in. wide, sessile axihary and terminal. Bracts 

 linear villous. Sepals in an obconic villous tube, lobes subulate. 

 Corolla -2 in. wide, yellow. Capsule -i in. long. Hah. Sandhills 

 by the sea, local. Kelantan, sandy coast at Kwala Kelantan, 

 abundant (Ridley). 



13. ABROMA, Jacq. 



Shrub. Leaves cordate ovate-oblong, serrate. Peduncles extra- 

 axillary, few-flowered. Sepals 5 lanceolate, connate near the base. 



