Eriolana.] xxvn. STERCULIACE^E. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 371 



dentate; petiole l|-3 in. Flowers crowded, yellow, 1^ in. Peduncles shorter than 

 the leaves. Sepals lanceolate, glandular within at the base, slightly exceeding the 

 bracteoles. Petals oblong, apex notched, claw thick, villous. Ovary ovoid ; style 

 glabrous, stigmas 8-10, revolute. Capsule 2 by 1 in., woody, ovoid, acute, beaked, 

 10-lobed, 10-valved; valves oblong, acute, keeled or rounded at the back, villous or 

 rarely glabrous at the inner margin. Seeds co imbricate ; embryo erect, cotyledons flat. 

 The Bhotan plant may, when fuller material is accessible, prove to be distinct. 



** Bracteoles entire, or nearly so (Jackia, Sprang. ; Schillera, Reich.}. 



5. E. spectabilis, Planch, in Herb. Hook. ; leaves ovate acuminate 

 base cordate, cymes many-flowered panicled, bracteoles a little below the 

 flower linear entire rarely lobed, style pilose at the base. Wallichia specta- 

 bilis, DC. Mem. Mus. x. 104, t. 6. Microlaena spectabilis, Wall. Cat. 1173. 

 Gumsia tiliacea, Wall. Cat. 1173 D. G. chloroxylon, Ham. in Watt. Cat. 

 p. 157, 1173, E. 



CENTRAL HIMALAYA ; Nipal, Wallich ; Simla, Webb. 



A shrub or small tree, young shoots stellate-hairy. Leaves 3-4 by 1^ in., unequally 

 serrate, 7-9-nerved, scabrid above, ashy-pubescent beneath ; petiole 2 in. Stipules 

 capillary. Peduncles longer than the leaves ; ultimate pedicels stellate-hairy, nearly as 

 long as the flower. Mowers 2 in. diam., sulphur-coloured. Buds oblong. Calyx at 

 first spathaceous, ultimately 5-parted ; sepals linear-lanceolate. Petals obovate-spathu- 

 late, claw thick, villous. Ovary ovoid, villous, oo -celled; stigmas oo. Capsule 14 in., 

 woody, oblong ; valves obtuse, tubercled, villous at the inner angle. Yields a fibre fit 

 for rope-making. 



6. E. quinquelocularis, Wight under Ic. t. 882 ; Ic. Index 36 ; leaves 

 roundish toothed apex acute shortly acuminate base cordate, bracteoles a little 

 distance from the flower minute caducous entire or lobed, style hairy stigma 

 5-10-lobed, Bedd. Fl. Si/hat. Anal. Gen. t. 5. Microchlsena quinquelucularis, 

 W. & A. Prodr. i. 71. M. flavescens, Garcke in PI. Hohenack No. 1533. 



BEHAR, alt. 1-4000 ft., /. D. H. ; WESTERN PENINSULA, Nilghiri mts., Gardner; 

 Coimbator, Wight; Concan, Dalzell; Belgaum Ghats, Ritchie. 



A tree, herbaceous portions stellate-hairy. Leaves 2^-3 in. each way, palmately 

 7-nerved, thinly stellate-hairy or glabrescent above, whitish and softly pubescent be- 

 neath ; petioles 2 in. Cymes at the end of the branches ; peduncles longer than tbe 

 leaves, stellate-hairy ; pedicels shorter than the flower, jointed above the middle. 

 Flower-buds ovate-oblong. Sepals f in., lanceolate, stellate-hairy, glandular at the 

 base within. Petals equalling the sepals ; claw broad, pubescent. Column as long as 

 the petals. Stigmas revolute. Capsule \\ in., oblong, pointed, 5-10-valved ; valves 

 not tubercled, usually villous at the- inner angle. Seeds numerous. 



9. FENTAPETES, Linn. 



Herbs. Leaves hastate-lanceolate. Flowers axillary. Bracteoles 3, ca- 

 ducous, subulate. Sepals 5, lanceolate, connate at the base. Petals 5. 

 Stamens 20, connate at the base, 15 fertile in 5 groups (of 3 each) alternating 

 with 5 staminodes, which are nearly as long as the petals ; anthers 2-celled, 

 extrorse. Ovary sessile, 5-celled, cells many ovuled ; style entire, twisted 

 and thickened upwards, stigmas 5 minute. Capsule loculicidally 5-valved. 

 Seeds 8-12, 2-seriate in each cell, not winged; cotyledons plaited, 2 partite, 

 radicle inferior. A single species, widely distributed in tropical Asia. 



1. P. phcenicea, Linn.; Eoxb. Fl hid. iii. 157 ; W. & A. Prodr. i. 67 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 1157, 2, 3, 4 ; Mia. Fl. Ind, Bat. i. pt. 2, 190. Dombeya phrenicea, 

 Cav. Diss. iii. t. 43, f. \.-Rlieede, Hort. Mai. x. t. 56. 



Throughout the hotter parts of India, from the PANJAB to BJBMA and the WESTERN 

 PENINSULA. 



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