STERCULIACE^. 



Nat. syst. ed. 2. p. 92. 



CAVALLIUM. 



Calyx 5-lobed, campanulate, erect. Stamens united into a short 

 cup, which is contracted in the middle and at the end decan- 

 drous, half the stamens being longer than the others. Styles short 

 consolidated. Stigma 5-lobed. Follicles 5, coriaceous, few- 

 seeded. Seeds large. Indian trees with cordate lobed leaves, 

 and panicles of numerous small flowers. 



269. C. urens Schott. mektem. 33. Sterculia urens Roxb. 

 Corom. pi. i. t. 24. DC. prodr. \. 483. W. and A. i. 63. 

 Mountainous parts of the coast of Coromandel, Hindostan, &c. 

 (Bulee, Hind.) 



Trunk erect, very straight, top large and shady. Bark light ash- 

 coloured, very smooth ; its outer coat thin, transparent, covered with 

 a farinaceous substance, and peeling off like the exterior pellicle of the 

 birch bark; inwardly fibrous, and netted. Leaves about the extre- 

 mities of the branches, alternate, petioled, 5-lobed, 5-nerved; lobes 

 acute, very downy, from 9 to 12 inches each way. Petioles nearly as 

 long as the leaves, round, downy. Panicles terminal, pretty large, 

 covered with a glutinous, farinaceous, yellow down. Bracts lanceolate. 

 Flowers small, numerous, yellow, male and hermaphrodite mixed. 

 Hermaphrodite; calyx campanulate, 5-toothed, leathery; divisions 

 acute ; with an obcordate hairy gland on the inside of each division 

 near the base. Corolla none. Filaments 10, alternately longer, 

 united below into a thin sheath. Anthers 2-lobed, alternately larger. 

 Ovary 5-lobed. Style single, short, thick. Stigma 5-lobed. Follicles 

 covered with yellow down, and many stiff stinging hairs. Seeds 3-6. 

 Yields a gum extremely like Tragacanth, as which it has actually 

 been imported. Boyle. 



STERCULIA. 



Calyx deeply 5- parted, spreading. Tube of stamens long, 

 cylindrical, expanded at the apex into a 5-lobed cup, each lobe 

 having 3 teeth and 3 anthers. Styles united, abruptly recurved. 

 Follicles subsessile, many-seeded. An Indian tree with pal- 

 mate leaves, and red stinking racemose flowers. 



270. S. fcetida ZzVm. sp.pl 1431. DC. prodr. i. 483. W.and 

 A. 63. Sclwtt. mektem. 32. (Rumf. iii. 1. 107.) Continent and 

 islands of India. 



Leaves compound, peltate ; leaflets 7-9, oblong, lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, when young slightly pubescent, when old smooth. Flowers 

 135 K 4 



