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XX. STERCULIACE.E 



[Sterculia 



clothed with, pungent fragile hairs, glabrescent afterwards, brilliant orange- 

 scarlet when ripe. 



Lower Burma, probably also on the Andamans. The ropes made of the bast as good 

 as those of S. villosa. Fl. Febr. Closely allied : 6. S. liypoclira, Pierre, Fl. CocMnch. t. 

 185. Lower Burma, T. H. Aplin, April, 1888. £ fl. smaller, J in. across, calyx segments 

 half the length of tube or less, panicles 12 in. long, ample, drooping, ramifications 

 slender, pedicels filiform. 



(c) Leaves simple, entire. 



7. S. guttata, Roxb. ; Wight Ic. t. 487; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 105. Vern. 

 Kukciri, Thana ; Kukar, goldar, Mar. ; Happu-savaga, Kan. ; Kaicili, Thondi, 

 Tam. ; Kavcdam, Mai. 



A large or middle-sized tree. Leaves from a rounded or slightly cordate base 



Fig. 38. — Sterculia guttata, Roxb. i. 



ovate, shortly acuminate, entire, under side as well as petioles tomentose, blade 

 5-10, petiole 1-3 in. long, secondary nerves 8-12 pair, the lowest pair basal. 

 Fl. white or pale yellow, with an offensive smell, in racemiform, rusty or tawny 

 tomentose panicles at the ends of branches. Calyx divided to near the base into-- 



