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STERCULIACEAE 



FIRMIANA Marsigli 



FIRMIANA COLORATA (Roxb.) R. Br. in Benn. PI. Jav. Rar. (1844) 

 235. 

 Sterculia colorata Roxb. PI. Coromandel 1 (1795) 26, t. 25. 



Karoland, Kampong Goenoeng Merlawan, Bartlett & La Rue 

 206, June 28, 1918, with the local name tjlpa tjipa. 

 India, Ceylon, and the Andaman Islands. 



FLACOURTIACEAE 



OSMELIA Thwaites 

 OSMELIA BARTLETTII sp. nov. 



Frutex vel arbor, ramulis inflorescentiisque pubescens; foliis 

 chartaceis oblongo-ellipticis, 7 ad 9 cm longis, glabris vel subtus 

 ad costa nervisque leviter pubescentibus, acuminatis, nervis 

 utrinque 4, curvatis, perspicuis; inflorescentiis paniculatis, 

 ramis paucis, spiciformibus, elongatis; floribus 4-meris. 



A shrub or tree, nearly glabrous except the pubescent younger 

 parts and inflorescences. Branches terete, glabrous, grayish, 

 the branchlets rather densely pubescent with subferrugineous 

 hairs. Leaves chartaceous, oblong-elliptic, 7 to 9 cm long, 3.5 

 to 4.5 cm wide, entire, brownish-olivaceous when dry, the lower 

 surface paler, base usually acute, sometimes obtuse, apex short- 

 ly acuminate, the upper surface entirely glabrous, the lower 

 surface glabrous or obscurely pubescent on the midrib and 

 nerves; lateral nerves usually 4 on each side of the midrib, 

 distinct, prominently curved, not anastomosing, the reticula- 

 tions slender, subparallel; petioles about 1 cm long, more or 

 less pubescent. Panicles axillary, and terminating lateral leafy 

 branchlets, the leaves on these branchlets much smaller than 

 the normal ones, 2 to 3 cm long, the branches of the 

 inflorescence few, simple, up to 10 cm in length, pubescent. 

 Flowers subsessile, usually scattered, never glomerate, about 

 5 mm in diameter, 4-merous, their pedicels 1 mm long or less. 

 Sepals 4, oblong-elliptic, obtuse, 3 mm long, slightly pubescent 

 outside. Stamens 8, their filaments slightly pilose, equal, about 

 2 mm long, the alternating lobes united for the lower 0.8 mm, 

 one lobe alternating with each filament, the free parts oblong- 

 obovate, densely pilose, about 1 mm long; ovary oblong-elliptic, 

 densely pubescent. 



Sumatra, East Coast, Asahan, in deep jungle at Bandar Poelo, 

 Bartlett & La Rue 37, May 16, 1918. 



