124 XXVI. STERCULIACE.I, 



Staminal-coliuuu short ; filameuts 10. Hermapii. flowers : Carpels 

 usually 5, on a short stout gynophore ; style short, thick, hairy ; 

 stigmas 5. Stamens iu a ring round the carpels. Follicles 4-6, ovoid- 

 oblong, 1 ill. long, densely pubescent, the pubescence mixed with 

 stinging hairs. Seeds c5-(), oblong, black. Fl. B. I, v. 1, p. 355 ; lloxb. 

 Hort. Beug. (1S14) p. 50 : Grab. Cat. p. 18 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 23 ; Trim. 

 n. Ceyl. V. J, p. 164; Talb. Trees. Bomb. p. 22; Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb.'A^at. v. 11 (1897) p. 129 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 3, 

 p. 364. — Flowers: Dec. -Feb. Vern. Kdiidol ; Karai ; Pdndrulc. 



Common throughout the Konkaus. The bark of the tree is white 

 and when the leaves have fallen the tree has the appearance of being 

 dead and withered. 



Konkan: Stocks I, Law I, Dahclll: Bombay, Ciipf. Gchiirnc\\ Matheran Hill (not 

 reaching I he summit), Coo/iC ! Deccan : Khaiidesh Satpudas, 21f/^o^. Kanaka: Kala 

 iiaddi, Bltchic, Td ! S. M. Country : N. East of Belgaum, Jiifchie ! ; Castlerock, 

 Woodrow\ Gujarat: Panch Mahals, Braiidlsl; Dangs, Woodrow, 11!— Distrib. 

 Assam, Ceylon. 



A gum called Katila, which has been u.sed as an inferior substitute for tragacantb, 

 is obtained from the tree ; the seeds are roasted and eaten by the poorer natives and 

 in some parts of India are ground and used as a kind of coffee. See Watt, Diet. 

 Econ. Prod. 1. c. 



3. Sterculia villosa, Boxh. Hort.Benij. (1814) p. 50. A tree with 

 light-colored bark ; branches few, spreading. Leaves 10-18 in. in diam., 

 palmately 5-7-lobed, glabrescent or thinly stellately hairy above, velvety 

 and with spreading hairs intermixed with the pubescence beneath, lobes 

 loug-acumiuate, base cordate ; petioles 6-15 in. long, pubescent, enlarged 

 and very downy near the top ; stipules lanceolate, caducous. Flowers 

 pinkish, | iu. in diam., in much-branched rusty-pubescent terminal 

 ])anicles 12-14 in. long, males and females intermixed, the males much 

 the more numerous. Calyx campanulate, downy outside, divided to the 

 middle ; lobes oblong-lanceolate, acute, nerved. Male flowers : 

 .Staminal-column -f^^ in. long, recurved ; stamens 10. Female flowers : 

 Ovary strigose with stellate hairs ; gynophore jV in. long, stout, cylin- 

 dric ; style stout, hairy, detlexed. Staminodes on a ring beneath the 

 ovary. Follicles about 5, oblong, 1^-2 in. long, spreading, rusty- 

 villous. Seeds oblong, smooth, black. Fl. B. 1. v. 1, p. 355; Grab. 

 Cat. p. 18 ; Dalz. & Gibs. ]). 22 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 22 : Woodr. iu 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 129 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, 

 part 3, p. 3G5.— Flowers : Dec.-Feb. Vern. /Sdrdol. 



From Gujarat southwards to N. Kanara. Konkan : Stocks ! ; near Goa, Dahell ! ; 

 S. Konkan, fr/-«/trt«t ; Wwgovl-A, DahcU ^S' Gibson. Kanaka: Drd-ctUj Gibwii, Talbot; 

 Kala nadcli, liiiihii;,ob\ Gu.iakat : Gadhivi (Uangs), Woodrow. 



A valuable llbre is obtained from the lihcr which is made into ropes and bags 

 {W(Ul}. 



4. Sterculia guttata, Roxh. Ilort. Bemj. (1814) p. 50. A tall 

 tree ; trunk straight: ; bark much cracked ; young shoots clothed with 

 stellate down. Leaves 5-8 by 3-4^ in., ovate-oblong, acute or acuminate, 

 glabrous above, stellately pubescent, prominently nerved and reticulately 

 veined beneath, base rounded or subcordate ; petioles 1-2 in. long, 

 terete, stout, pubescent ; stipules ensiform, caducous. Flowers | in. 

 across, yellow spotted with purple, generally arranged in fascicles of 3, 

 along the branches of short rusty-pubescent racemes, the pedicel of the 



