126 XXVI. STERCULIACE.li. 



late, coated without \\i\}\ dense ferruginous stellate down, striate 

 within with red and yellow veins. Male flowees : Staminal-column 

 slender, three-fourths the length of the lobes of the calyx, bearing 5 or 

 6 very small sterih' OAaries at its apex, round which are arranged 4—5 

 phalanges of subsessile stamens ; pollen smooth, yellow. Female or 

 HEBMAPURODiTE FLOWERS: O Varies 5, sessile ; ovules ruimerous ; styles 

 very short, pilose, recurved ; stigma 2-lobed. Staminodes or stamens 

 round the base of the ovary. Follicles 5, subglobosc, about 5 in. in 

 diam., on stalks 1^ in. long, hard and woody, clothed \^ith mealy pubes- 

 cence without, corky within. Seeds about 40, oblong, compressed, 

 furnished with a corky oblong-obovate wing, which, with the seed, is 

 about 3 by 1| in. ; cotyledons not separable from the mealy albumen ; 

 radicle small, close to the hilum. Fl. B. I. v, 1, p. 360; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Suppl. p. 10 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ]). 22 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. n (1897) p. 120; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 3, p. 360. 

 Sterculia Haynii, Bedd. Flor. SyJvat. t. 230. 



A very rare tree in the Bombay Presidencj-, the only locality from which it has 

 been reportefl being the foot of the Burboli Ghat in N. Kanara, where it has been 

 found by Talhot and Uoodroiv. It has been planted about Poena and Khandala.— 

 DiSTiiiB. Chittagong, Pegu and the Andanians. 



Sterculia pojndnifoliu , Eosb. Hort. Beng. (1814) p. 50 (erroneously 

 cited as ,S'. popvlifolia in Wight & Arn. Prodr. p. 62, in Fl. B. I. v. 1, 

 p. 361, and in Woodrow's list Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 129), 

 is not indigenous. It has been planted in the old botanic garden at 

 Hewra {fide Woodrow, 1. c). 



SiercuUa camjxinulata, Wall., a native of Pegu and Java, has also 

 been planted as an ornamental tree. A tree may be found in the 

 grounds of the hotel at Khandala (fide Woodrow, 1. c). 



2. HERITIERA, Ait. 

 Trees. Leaves simple, coriaceous, scaly beneath, penninerved. Flowers 

 small, unisexual, in axillary panicles. Calyx 5-toothed or 5-lid. Petals 0. 

 Staminal-column slender, bearing, in a ring beneath the apex 5 adnate 

 anthers with parallel cells. Carpels of the ovary 5. subdistinct; ovule 1 

 in each carpel ; style short ; stigmas 5, thick. Bipe carpels woody, iude- 

 hiscent, keeled or winged on the back. Seeds exalbnminous; cotyledons 

 thick ; radicle next the hilum. — DiSTUiis. Tropical Asia, Africa and 

 Australia, near the coast ; species 4-5. 



1. Heritiera litoralis, Dryand. in Ait. Ilort. Kew. ed. 1, v. 3 (1789) 

 p. 546. A tree, attaining a considerable size ; bark longitudinally 

 furrowed; young parts scaly. Leaves 5-8 by 2-4 in., elliptic-oblong, 

 acute or obtuse, glabrous above, entirely covered beneath w ith minute 

 silvery scales, base rounded or acute ; petioles /,^ in. long; stipules small, 

 setaceous, caducous. Flowers small, the females rather larger than the 

 males, in tomentose much-branched drooping axillary panicles in the 

 upper axils shorter than the leaves. Calyx campanulate, 4-6-toothed, 

 clothed on both surfaces \\ith orange-yellow, stellate pubescence ; teeth 

 short, ovate, acute. Staminal-column shorter than the calyx ; anthers 5, 

 sessile. Carpels of the ovary glabrous ; style tapering, much shorter 

 than the calyx. Jiipe carpels 1-15, spreading horizontally, L-3 in. long, 

 broadly ovoid, thick and woody, smooth or tuberch^d, the dorsal margin 



