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2. S. ORNATA, Wall, in Herb. Calcutta. A tree 20 to 80 feet l.igh : 

 young branches thick, glabrous, pale, the leaf-cicatrices very large, the 

 apices deciduously piluse, coccineous drying into brown. Leaves thickly 

 membranous, reniform, more or less deeply divided into 5 or 7 acumi- 

 nate lobes, the sinuses between the lobes wide, the base deeply cordate ; 

 upper sui'face minutely strigose, often stellate, minutely pitted ; lower 

 surface yellowish-brown, minutely and uniformly tawny-tomentose, 

 minutely gland nlai'-dotted under the hair; the 5 to 7 radiating main 

 nerves and the ascending secondary nerves bold and distinct; length 

 about 12 in., breadth about 15 in. ; petiole 15 to 18 in. lone, thickened 

 at the base, minutely tomentose. Panicles from the axils of the pre- 

 vious year's leaves, solitary, 8 to 15 in. long, shortly branched, many- 

 flowered, pulverulent reddish-tomentose. Calyx ochre-coloured with 

 red fundus, veined, widely campanulate, sub-rotate, with 5 ovate acute 

 spreading lobes longer than the tube, stellate-pubescent externally, puberu- 

 lous internally ; 'y-^^hhJn diam. Male flower ; gynophore about as long 

 as thetube, curved^parjely gland alar-hairy, bearing at its apex 10 small 

 anthers with thiclc connective. Female flower; gynophore thickened 

 above, densely tawny-tomentose as are the conjoined ovaries and curved 

 style ; the ovafies with a ring of about 10 sessile anthers at their base ; 

 Btigma discoid, rugulose, 5-lobed. Follicles about 5, sessile, coriaceous, 

 narrowly oblong, very shortly beaked, brilliant orange scarlet when ripe, 

 outside glabrescent, inside densely coccineous-pilose ; length 4 in., 

 breadth ]25 in. Seeds a,hont 6, oval, smooth. Wall, in Voigt Hort. 

 Gale. Suburb. 105 (name only) ; Knrz Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Vol. xlii. pt. 

 2, p. 258; Vol. xliii. pt. 2, p. 116; For. Fl. Burm. i, 136. Sterculia 

 armata. Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 357, in part. Pierre Fl. 

 Forest. Coch-Chine, t. 185, fig. C. 



Burmah ; Wallich, Brandis, Kurz. Andamanrs, Kurz. 



I include this species because, although the evidence of its havincr 

 been collected in the Andaman s is not very good, I think it extremely 

 likely that it does occur there, and that good unmistakeable specimens 

 will soon be forthcoming. The species in many respects resembles S. 

 villosa, with which it appears to have often been confused. The distinc- 

 tive marks to separate it from S. villosa are that the leaves are minutely 

 dotted and pitted ; that the apices of the young branches have red hairs 

 (becoming brown on drying) ; that after the hairs have fallen the youno- 

 branches have pale polished bark with very large leaf-cicatrices and 

 some warts, but no sub-persistent stipules ; that the flowers are larger 

 (75 in. in diara. as against '4 in) ; that the staminal column and gyno- 

 phore are hairy ; that the follicles are larger and paler ; and that the 

 whole of their inner surface is densely hispid-piloSe. 



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