STERCULIACEAE. 



Determined by Alfred Rehder and E. H. Wilson. 



REEVESIA Lindl. 



Reevesia pubescens Masters in Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. I. 364 

 (1874). — Brandis, Ind. Trees, 92 (1906). 



Western Szech'uan: Monkong Ting, descent of Pan-lan-shan, 

 side of stream, alt. 2300 m., October 1910 (No. 4395; tree 20 m. tall, 

 girth 1.5 m., one only seen). Yunnan: Mengtsze, alt. 1800 m., A. 

 Henry (No. 11510; tree 10 m. tall). 



Only one tree is known to us, and this grows in a remote district where it is 

 known as the " Soh-lou " tree. The bark is gray, rough and firm, the branches 

 rather slender and spreading. Our specimens are in ripe fruit and the flowers are 

 unknown to us. The woody fruit is pubescent and verrucose in the upper part, 

 top-shaped or obconical, 4-5 cm. high and about 2.5 cm. wide at the summit, 

 which is flattened and depressed. The leaves are fairly coriaceous, and vary from 

 subcordate and truncate to rounded at the top; /the primary and secondary veins 

 are impressed above and prominent on the lower surface. In Henry's specimen, 

 which Dunn (in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXXIX. 484 [1911]) identifies with R. Wallichn 

 R. Brown, the leaves are very long, and the base in some of them is inclined to 

 be slightly narrowed. 



It is not without some hesitation that we identify our specimens with this 

 species of Masters, but allowing for difference in texture of leaves on flowering and 

 fruiting specimens they agree very well with Griffith No. 548 in Herb. Gray. 



The brief description of R. Cavaleriei L^veille & Vaniot (in Fedde, Rep. Spec. 

 Nov. IV. 330 [1907]) may apply to our plant, but it is too incomplete for definite 

 identification. 



STERCULIA L. 



Sterculia lanceaefolia Roxburgh, Hort. Bengal. 50 (nomen nudum) 

 (1814); Fl. Ind. ed. 2, III. 150 (1832). 



Sterculia ovalifolia WaUich, Cat. No. 1132 (nomen nudum) (1828). 



Sterculia Roxburghii WaUich, PI. As. Rar. III. t. 262 (1832). — Brown in 



Bennett, PI. Jav. Rar. 229 (1844). — Masters in Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 



I. 356 (1874). — Leveille, Fl. Kouy-Tcheou, 406 (1915). 



Western Szech'uan: Kiating Fu, cultivated in a garden, alt. 

 340 m., December 1908 (No. 2458; tree 15 m. tall, girth 2.5 m., seeds 

 shining black). 



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