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Rar. 231. Kurz For. Fl. Burm. i. 138, in part. S. mollis, Wall. Cat. 

 1131; R. Brown in Beun. PI. Jav. Rar. 231. 8. Balanghas, h. v&t, 

 mollis, Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 358. 



Burraah ; Griffith No. 578 (Kew Dist.) ; Heifer Nos. 579, 580 ; 

 Falconer. Perak, King's Collector, No. 8360. 



Roxburgh left in the Calcutta Herbarim an excellent coloured 

 drawing of his S. angustifolia. In his Flora Indica he gives a very brief 

 account of the species, drawn up from specimens flowering in the Botanic 

 Garden and which he states came from Nepal. His description is too brief 

 to be of any use : but his figure is so good that I have no hesitation in 

 saying that no species of Sterculia collected since Roxburgh's time in 

 any part of the outer Himalaya, or from the plain at its base, is in the 

 least like this plant. I have little doubt that Roxburgh was deceived 

 as to its origin by some changing of labels of the native gardeners at 

 Calcutta (a sublimely inaccurate race ! ) ; and that the plant was really 

 received, like so many others during the early years of the garden, from 

 the Straits. Wallich, no doubt deceived by the alleged Himalayan 

 origin of the plant, distributed (as No. 1133 of his list) specimens from 

 the trees of it which were still in his time cultivated in the Calcutta 

 Garden under Roxburgh's name, while specimens collected in Burmahhe 

 issued as No. 1131, under the name S. mollis, Wall. Pierre's figure 

 above quoted does not agree very well with Roxburgh's, the panicles 

 being by far too short and not nearly hairy enough. 



12. S. RUBiGiNOSA, Vent. Hort. Malmaison, ii. 91. A tree 20 to 

 60 feet high : young branches rather thick, their apices deciduously ruf- 

 ous-tomentose ; the bark pale or brown, striate, glabrous. Leaves mem- 

 branous, obovate-oblong, sometimes ovate-oblong, shortly and abruptly 

 acuminate, entire ; narrowed to the acute, rounded or minutely cordate, 

 8-nerved base : upper surface glabrous, or sparsely stellate-pubescent ; the 

 lower stellate-pubescent, most of the hairs pale and minute but these 

 on the midrib and 7 to 10 pairs of spreading stout nerves larger and 

 darker coloured: length 4*5 to 75 or rarely 12 in., breadth 2 to 3 in., 

 rarely 4 in. ; petiole varying with age from "3 to 1*5 in , rufous tomen- 

 tose as are the linear caducous '5 in. long stipules. Panicles solitary 

 in the axils of the crowded young leaves, many -flowered, shorter than, 

 or as long as the leaves, rufous-tomentose like the outer surfaces of 

 the flowers; flower-pedicels spreading, capillary. Floiver buds broadly 

 ovate. Calyx less than '5 in. long, widely campanulate, divided for half 

 its length or more into 5 lanceolate spreading incurved lobes cohering 

 by their tips, the lobes densely covered inside with white hispidulous 

 hairs. Male flower ; staminal column longer than the tube or about as 



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