StercuUa.] STERCULIACEAE. 105 



W. Ghats, in evergreen forests from Malabar to Tinnevelly up 

 to 3,000 ft. ; often planted elsewhere. 



3. Sterculia, Linn. 



Trees. Leaves undivided, lobed or digitate. Flowers in 

 usually axillary panicles or racemes, 1-sexual or polygamous. 

 Calyx 4-5-fid or -partite. Petals 0. Staminal column bearing 

 10-30 anthers at its apex. Ovary of 5 nearly distinct carpels ; 

 ovules 2-many in each carpel ; styles connate below ; stigmas 

 radiating. Ripe carpels distinct, follicular, sessile or stalked, 

 woody coriaceous or membranous. Seeds 1-many ; albumen 

 adhering to the cotyledons. 



Leaves digitate with 7-0 leaflets ; calyx dull orange-coloured, deeply 

 5-partite, glabrous outside, thickly villous within ; follicles large, woody, 



scarlet 1 . foetida . 



Leaves palmately lobed, velvety beneath ; calyx-tube campanulate, about 

 equal to the lobes ; follicles coriaceous, villous : 



Calyx yellow, pubescent within ; follicles red, covered with stinging 



bristles ; leaves with 5 short caudate lobes 2. urens. 



Calyx pink, glabrous within ; follicles bright red, rusty villous, covered 

 with stellate non-stinging hairs ; leaves with 5-7 long-acuminate 



lobes 3. rillosa. 



Leaves undivided : 



Leaves palmately 7-ribbed, cordate, acuminate, glabrous ; calyx- 

 segments linear spathulate, free nearly to the base ; follicles stalked, 



ventricose with a membranous wing 4. populnifolia. 



Leaves penninerved : 



Lower nerves rising acutely from the base of the leaf ; petioles and 

 reticulate nervules rusty-stellate-tomentose ; calyx densely tomen- 

 tose, segments erect, broadly ovate ; follicles obovoid, red with black 



seeds 5. guttata. 



Lower nerves divaricate ; petioles and blades glabrescent ; calyx 

 subglabrous, segments linear, connivent ; follicles oblong with 

 acuminate tip and rusty down, seeds black 6. Balanyhas. 



1. STERCULIA FOETIDA, Linn. ; F. B. I. i. 354 ; W. & A. 63 ; 

 Wt. Ic. t. 181. 



Forests of the W. Coast at low elevations, scarce ; elsewhere 



planted. 



A large deciduous tree with light wood of little or no value, 



