THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 49 



The series of hitherto well known genera of the tribe SterculiecB 

 vrould consequently be : Stercidia, Octolobus, Brachychiton, Ptert/gota, 

 Firmiana, Tarrietia, Cola, Heritiera. 



Sterculia oncinocarpa. 



F. T. M. and Forbes. 



Branchlets thick alid rough ; leafstalks elongated, slightly brownish- 

 tomentose; leaves crowded on the summit of the branchlets, large, 

 ovate-or roundish-cordate thick-chartaceous, glabrous above, some- 

 what paler and not shining beneath, but there conspersed with 

 subtle star-hair; primary nerves 5-8 from each side of the midrib, 

 prominent on the lower page of the leaf, spreading at a very acute 

 angle, not much curved, the two lowest on each half arising from 

 the base of the leaf and emitting outward strong patent rather 

 distant secondary nerves; primary veins almost transverse; veinlets 

 prominulous, reticulating; the enclosed small areoles subtle punctular- 

 rough; fruitlets woody, on elongated stalklets but without stipes, 

 about four times longer than broad, cylindrically convex, obliquely 

 crescent-ghaped curved, outside invested with a very short brownish 

 tomentum, inside along the placental suture densely bearded by pale 

 fascicular hair; seeds several, obovatc-ellipsoid, glabrous. 



Near the base of the Owen Stanley's Ranges; H. 0. Forbes (680.) 



Leaves 4-9 inches long, 3-6 inches broad, somewhat acute, dark- 

 green above, the leafstalkes varying in length from 1^ to 4 inches. 

 Flowers not yet available. Semi-mature fruitlets very hard, uncinate- 

 ascending, gradually attenuated to the base and to the pointed apex, 

 probably not very dehiscent; the pericarp about ^ inch thick. Seeds 

 about \ inch long; testa black. 



The form of the leaves is that of Pterygota Roxburglm, but the 

 nervature rnd venation is much stronger; — the particular curvature 

 of the fruitlets seem to be quite specific. 



Sterculia oliganthera. 



Leaves on long stalks, rigidly chartaceous, orbicular-cordate, 

 entire, paler green and not shining beneath, as well as the branchlets 

 glabrous, the basal sinus closed by the overlapping roundish lobes, 

 the five primary nerves radiating from the base of the leaves, the 

 secondary nerves spreading, the veins closely reticulated; panicles 

 quite short, almost racemous, terminal; stalklets short, as well as 

 the stalks velvet-downy; flowers small; calyces bellshaped, cleft to 

 the middle or somewhat deeper, inside scantily soft-hairy or 

 glabrescent, outside thinly velvet-downy, lobes semilanceolar, spread- 

 ing; column of stamens not quite so long as the tube of the calyx, 

 slender, glabrous; aattiers G-7, erect, forming a single circular 

 almost regular row; pistils of the fertile flowers 3-5, velvet-downy; 

 stigmas clavate-ppatular, eomewhat recurved, glabrous; OTules severaL 



