St, rrtil/a] 



XX. STERCULIACE.E 



85 



in. long. Follicles 1-5, on stout pubescent stalks, opening long before maturity, 6-8 in. 

 long, membranous, conspicuously veined, boat-shaped. Seed 1 (rarely 2) attached to 



Mi.' very lias.- df tin- follicle. 23. S. campanulata, Wall.; Kurz, F. Fl. i. 189. Marta- 



Fig. 10. -Sterculia colorata, Etoxb. Fl. fr. J. 



ban.eastern slopes of the Pegu Soma, Nicobars, Malay Peninsula, Cochinchina, Malay 



Archipelago. A large deciduous ti Leaves broadly ovate from a cordate liase, 



blade I ir. |i.'i i.il.' •_■ .", in. Calyx rninpanulati', ns n rule persistent in fruit. Follicles 

 : ' 6,2 8 in. long, membranous, veined, saccate, ending in an oblong-lanceolate wing, 



purple outside, yellow ish-brow n inside. S I al the base of the follicle. ^•■lH-rally im« 



only, 



_>. HERITIERA, Aiton; PI. Brit. Ind. i. 362. 



Evergreen trees. Leaves simple, coriaceous, quite entire, silver-scaly beneath. 

 PI. small, unisexual, in axillary panicles. Calyx !-.">, sometimes 6-7 cleft. 

 Petals 0. { : Staminal column slender, bearing a ring of t-5 2-celled anthers 

 at the top. ? : Ovary "f 5 nearly distinct carpels with 1 or 2 ovules. Ripe 

 carpels wonily, iii'leliiseent, keeled or winged. Cotyledons thick, allmmeu none. 

 Spe.-ies 6 or 7, tropics of the old world and of Australia. 



A. Littoral species. 



1. H. littorahs, Dryander; Bedd. Manual t. II. fig. 6. Vern. Sunder, 

 Sundri, Beng. Pinli kanazo, Burm. 



A middle-sized gregarious tree, heart\\ 1 dark red, very hard, medullary 



rays reddish, intervening tissue dark red. Leaves elliptic-oblong from a 



