Sterculia.] xxvu. STERCULIACE^E. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 355 



nearly glabrous. Seeds 10-15, the size of filberts, black, smooth; albumen 0; coty- 

 ledons thick, fleshy, 5-nerved, plumule developed. The seeds are roasted and eaten as 

 chestnuts. 



2. S. versicolor, Wall. PL As. Rar. i. 48, t. 59 ; leaves peltate digitate, 

 leaflets 5-7 oblong acumftiate pubescent beneath, calyx-lobes inflexed conni- 

 vent at the tips. Wall. Cat. 1129. Br. in Benn. PI. Jav. Rar. 227. 



BIRMA, on limestone rocks, by the banks of the Irrawaddy, near Segaen, Wattich. 



A tree 16 ft. Trunk thick, bark grey. Branches spreading. Leaflets 5-7 by 2-2 

 in., glabrous above, whitish-pubescent beneath; petiole 6-8 in., dilated at the apex. 

 Panicles at the ends of the branches, erect, shorter than the petioles. Flowers oo f 

 small, fragrant, orange-yellow, pedicelled. Calyx % in., campanulate, segments oblong. 

 Staminal column curved. 9 fl. : ovary pedicelled, 5-furrowed, villous ; style short, villous, 

 stigma subpeltate, 5-lobed, lobes obtuse. 



** Leaves palmately lobed. 



3. S. urens, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 50 ; Cor. PI. i. 25, t. 24 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 145 ; 



leaves 5-lobed velvety beneath, panicles erect, follicles armed with sharp 

 bristles. W. & A. Prodr. i. 63 ; Wall. Cat. 1120 in part ; Dah. & Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 23 ; Thwaites Enum. 29 ; Br. in Benn. PI. Jav. Rar. 227. Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 172. Cavallium urens, Schott & Endl. Melet. 33. 



NORTH-WEST INDIA, ASSAM, BEHAR, EASTERN and WESTERN PENINSULAS, CEYLON. 



A soft-wooded tree, with white papery outer bark, inner fibrous. Trunk erect. 

 Branches spreading, marked with large scars. Leaves about the ends of the branches, 

 9-12 in. long and broad, rounded, base cordate, lobes entire acuminate ; petiole 6-9 in. 

 Panicle dense, terminal, oo -flowered, glandular-pubescent. Flowers small, yellow, 9 

 mixed with many 6. Calyx \ in. diam., campanulate, 5-parted, lobes acute, spreading. 

 Filaments 10. Follicles 5, oblong, radiating, yellow pubescent, with stinging hairs 

 intermixed. Seeds 3-6, oblong, black. Yields a colloid gum, and the seeds are roasted 

 and eaten. In Wallich's herbarium, under number 1120 D, E, F (8. urens}, are 

 fragments of two or three species intermixed, with no indication of the proper letters 

 pertaining to each, the leaves are digitate, glabrous above, pubescent beneath, there are 

 flowers of two species, and fruits which may be those of /S. villosa. The name S. urens 

 cannot be properly applied to any of these fragments. 



4. S. villosa, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 50 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 153 ; leaves 5-7-lobed 

 velvety beneath and with spreading villi, panicles pendulous, follicles 

 downy. Wall. Cat. 1136, 2, 3, D. ; W. & A. Prodr. i. 63 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 

 FL 22 ; Br. in Benn. PI. Jav. Rar. 227. 



NORTH-WESTERN INDIA, BENGAL and MALABAR, and the tropical Himalaya from 

 Kumaon eastwards. 



A tree with white bark. Branches few, spreading, with large scars. Leaves 12-18 

 in. each way, glabrescent or thinly stellate-pilose above, base cordate, deeply palmately 

 5-7-lobed, lobes acuminate, sometimes 3-fid ; petiole as long as the leaf, expanded and 

 very downy at the top ; stipules lanceolate, acuminate. Panicle 12-14 in., deflexed, 

 much branched, rusty pubescent. Bracts filiform, caducous. Flower-buds globose. 

 Flowers oo, <J and ? mixed, the former most numerous. Calyx \ in. diam., broadly cam- 

 panulate, downy outside, pinkish within, 5-lobed, lobes spreading. Anthers iO. Ovary 

 globose, style recurved. Follicles 1^-2 in., oblong, spreading, rusty-villous. Seeds oblong, 

 black ; albumen bipartite ; cotyledons thin. 



*** Leaves simple, not lobed, 1-nerved. 

 t Calyx-lobes broad, spreading. 



5. S. g-uttata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 50 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 148 ; leaves glabrous 

 above pubescent beneath oblong-ovate acute or acuminate base rounded 

 or subcordate, panicles sparingly branched. Wall. Cat. 1127, in part; 



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