Waltheria.] xxvn. STERCULIACE^E. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 375 



Common in all the hotter parts of INDIA, from KUMAON alt. 4000 ft. to MALACCA and 

 CEYLON. DISTKIB. A widely diffused Tropical weed. 



Perennial, villous. Leaves 1-3 in., shortly petioled, cordate-ovate, oblong, obtuse, 

 toothed, plaited. Flowers yellow, in. Bracts narrow, villous. Sepals lanceolate, 

 acuminate. Petals longer than the sepals, stalked. 



13. ABROIVXA, Jacq. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves cordate, ovate-oblong, serrulate, sometimes 

 angled. Peduncles opposite the leaves, few-flowered. Sepals 5, connate 

 near the base. Petals 5, purplish, concave below, prolonged above into a 

 large spoon-shaped lamina. Staminal-cup of 5 fertile and as many sterile 

 divisions, fertile filaments opposite the petals, 3-antheriferous ; anthers 

 2-lobed, lobes divergent. Staminodes longer than the fertile filaments, 

 obtuse. Ovary sessile, pyramidal, 5-lobed ; cells many-ovuled ; styles 5. 

 Capsule membranous, 5-angled, 5-winged, truncate at the apex, septi- 

 cidally 5-valved, valves vijlous at the edges. Seeds numerous, albuminous ; 

 embryo straight, cotyledons flat cordate, radicle next the hilum. 

 DISTRIB. 2 or 3 species, natives of Tropical Asia. 



1. A. aug-usta, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. i. 485; Roxb. Hort. Beng. 50 ; FL 

 Ind. iii. 15(j ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 183 ; Beddome Flor. Sylvat. Anal. 

 Gen. t. 5 ; W. & A. Prodr. i. 85 ; Wall. Cat. 1142. A. angulata, Lam. Ill, 

 636. A. Wheeled, Retz. Obs. v. 27 ; Willd. Sp. PL iii. 1425. A. fastuosum 

 Goertn. Fruct. i. 307, t. 64. 



Widely spread, native or cultivated, throughout the hotter parts of India from the 

 NORTH WEST PROVINCES to SIKKIM, alt. 3000 ft. ; KHASIA MTS. alt. 4000 ft., and Assam. 

 DISTRIB. Java, Philippines, China. 



A shrub, branches downy. Leaves 4-6 by 4-5 in. repand-denticulate, base 3-7-nerved, 

 upper smaller, narrower, entire, glabrescent above, tomentose below ; petiole \-l in. 

 Stipules linear, deciduous as long us the petiole. Peduncle 1^ in., axiliary. Flowers 

 2 in. diarn. Sepals 1 in., lanceolate, free nearly to the base. Petals scarcely exceeding 

 the sepals, imbricate in the bud, deciduous. Capsule 1^ in., obpyramidal ultimately 

 glabrous, thrice as long as the persistent calyx. The bark yields good fibre. 



14. GUAZUMA, Plum. 



A tree. Leaves simple, tomentose. Flowers in axillary cymes. Sepals 5, con- 

 nate below the middle, at first spathaceous. Petals 5, concave at the base, 

 prolonged at the apex into 2 narrow strap-shaped processes. /Stamens 10, 

 connate into a column which is tubular below, and consists above of 5 fertile, 

 3-antheriferous filaments opposite the petals, and 5 lanceolate staniiuodes 

 opposite the sepals ; anthers 2-lobed, lobes divergent. Ovary sessile, 5-lobed, 

 5-celled ; styles more or less connate ; ovules numerous in each cell. 

 Capsule oblong, woody, tubercled, resembling a mulberry. Seed albu- 

 minous ; embryo curved, cotyledons leafy folded, radicle next the hilum. 

 DISTRIB, A genus of 5 species, chiefly natives of Tropical America. 



1. G-. tomentosa, Kimth ; DC. Prodr. i. 485; Wight III. t. 31 ; 

 W. & A. Prodr. i. 64 ; Tliwaites Enum. 29; Beddome Fl. Sylvat. t. 107. 

 Buboma tomentosa, Spreng. Syst. iii. 385. G. ulmifolia, Wall. Cat. 1141 

 Diuroglossum rufescens, Turcz. in Flora 1853, 735. 



Generally distributed and frequently cultivated in the warmer parts of India ai. 

 CEYLON, but perhaps only introduced. DISTKIB. Java, Tropical America. 



A tree, herbaceous portions stellate-tomentose. Leaves 3-44 by 2 in., oblong-lanceo- 

 late, obliquely cordate, acuminate, serrate, scabrid, or glabresceut above, pubescent 



