358 xxvii. STERCULIACE^:. (Maxwell T. Masters.) [Sterculia. 



TROPICAL EASTERN HIMALAYA; Sikkim, 3-6000 ft., /. D. H.; BHOTAX, Griffith: 

 ASSAM, and the KHASIA Mrs. 



A small tree. Leaves 4-8 by 1-3 in., quite entire, sometimes with scanty stellate 

 hairs beneath ; petiole 1 in., hairy, apex thickened ; stipules subulate. 7' 

 equalling the leaves, ultimate pedicels capillary, as Ions: as the flowers. Bracteoles 

 subulate. Flower-buds lanceolate from ;i broad luisc : <$ flowers H in. diam., green ex- 

 ternally, pink within. Sepah incurved, woolly tips coherent or free, sometimes B] 

 ing. ^Follicles 4-5 in., lanceolate, beaked, downy externally, crimson on both surfaces. 

 Seeds 4-8, ovoid, smooth, albumen scanty, bipartite. On some specimens dimorphic 

 male fl. maybe seen, the majority similar to those above described, others in which the 

 sepals are united for the greater part of their length, forming a distended, somewhat 

 fleshy, pink, accrescent bell shaped calyx, ultimately attaining a length of 2 in. This 

 hypertrophy may be the result of insect or fungus growth. 



l. r >. S. nobilis, R, Br. in Benn. PL Jar. Har. 231; leaves glabrous 

 oblong acuminate, panicles pendulous, calrx-segmenta as long as tlie bell- 

 shaped tube linear incurved. Mi'/. /'/.///,/. /inf. i. part -2. 17.".. S. Hula 1 

 li.,,.,-1,. /-'/. I,,,1. iii. 1 44, nnt of Will,!. ; Wfi/l. Cat, 1118, B, C, E. Southwellia 

 nobilis, Solid*. Par. Lond. t. 69. 



M. U.AIIAR, at Qnilon, Wight; doubtful if wild. DISTIUR. China and Sumatra. 



A tree ; bark brown. Leaves 2-12 by 2-6 in. ; petiole 1 in. ix, axillary, 



many-Howi red ; ultimate pedicels filiform, glabroiu, spreading horizontally. / 

 Ittiilt fu.-iform. <J flowers | in. diam., fragrant, eanipani'l | 

 iel within. iluntii si. -nd< r, curved. ^ fl / very hairy 



lobed, style curved. /><///./ x \vn.,,!y, ovoid, be.-iked. Seeds few, tMa dark 

 cln stnut, ( laininy, inner coat coriaceous, dull black; albumen 0; cotyledons thick. 

 Seeds eaten as chestnuts. 



1C. S. Balanglias, /,. ; 7>V. hi Ilr-nn. PI. Jar. Rnr. 231, nof of !;.,.!>. , 

 leaves puboecnt hc'iicatli oblong-ovate obtuse acuminate or lanceolate base 

 rounded not cordate, panicle erect or nodding as long as the leaves, flowers 

 ylolmlar, sejials as loni; as the hispid l>ell-shape<l tube, stigmas loii'j". \Vnll. 

 Cl. Ills, 1) ; H'/vA/, ///. t. 30 ; IK. <(' A. J'rn.{,; i. M ; Tliwaitvs Enum. -2(1 

 J!lir (t l,> //o/7. Mai. i. t. 49. 



Throughout the H<>TTKK PAKIS nj.- IM.IA and in CEYI.OX. 



A tree ; herbaceous portions rusty -tomentose. l.irfx 5-6 by Sin. ; petiole 1^-2 in.; 

 stipules subulate. Panirli- stell;ite-hairy ; jtedieels lunger than the ilo\\v 

 l>u<l.-< ovate, obtnsr. Culi/.r globose ', in. diam., downy out^iile, hispid within, :> 

 the middle, segments connivent. Xfirjinrut recurved, as Imig as the style, /''ol/icli-s 3 in., 

 woody, oblong acuminate, covered with rusty down. <SV/y/x oblong, black. 



VAR. 1. motlis ; leaves elliptic-oblong, panicles nodding, pedicels capillary pilose, 

 spreading. S. mollis, Wall. ('at. 1131, 1426, 1427; Br. in Benn. PI. Jav. liar. 

 231. Bhotan and the Eastern Peninsula. More densely pubescent than the type, but 

 otherwise hardly distinguishable. 



VAR. 2. angitstifolia; leaves narrow lanceolate, panicle spreading or ascending, 

 pilose. S. angustilblia, Koxb. Hort. Seng. 50; FL Ind. iii. 148; Wall. ('at. li;;:i; 

 Br. in Benn. PL Jav. Ear. 231. North-Western provinces, Nipal and Mergui. Rox- 

 burgh describes the panicle as pendulous : I always find it ascending in herbarium 

 specimens. 



VAR. 3. glubrescens; leaves glabrescent beneath.' Mergui, Griffith. 



17. S. rubiginosa, Vent. Hort. Malm. ii. 91, in note; leaves oblong 

 acute or abruptly acuminate glabrous above downy beneath base rounded 

 stiptdes very long, panicle erect, calyx-lobes as long as the tube, stigmas 

 short. Br. in Benn. PL Jav. Ear. 232 ; Miq. FL hid. Bat, i. pt. 2, 175. 

 S. angustifolia, Jack Hal. Misc. i. ; Hook. Bot. Misc. i 287. S. Jackiana, 

 Wall. Cat. 1134. 



