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XX. STEECULIACE^ 



[Buettneria 



Sikkim, ascending to 4,000 ft., Khasi hills, Andamans, Burma. PI. Ma3 r , June. 

 Cochinchina, China. 3. B. crenulata, Wall. Pegu, Tenasserim. Leaves ovate-acunii- 

 nate, blade 3-4, petiole 1-3 in. long, capsule f-1 in. diam., prickles J in. long. 

 4. B. andamanensis, Kurz. Andamans, Tenasserim (Thaungyeen, March, 1859 D.B.). 

 Leaves 3-5 lobed, capsules §— 1 in. diam., prickles on a conical bass, unequal in length. 



6. PTEROSPERMUM, Schreber ; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 366. 



Trees, rarely shrubs, hairs stellate. Fl. bisexual, bracteolate, calyx deeply 5- 

 cleft, deciduous. Staminal column short, adnate to the gynophore, divided into 

 20 filaments, 15 with linear anthers, 5 without anthers (staminodia). Ovary 

 5-celled, stigma club-shaped and furrowed. Capsule woody or coriaceous, 

 opening loculicidally in 5 valves. Seeds winged at the end, albumen none or 

 scanty, cotyledons wrinkled or folded. Species 18, tropical Asia. 



A. Western species. 



1. P. suberifolium, Lam. : Trimen Handb. Ceylon i. 160. Vern. Bayalo, 

 Uriya ; Tada, Narudu, Tel. 



A middle-sized tree, branchlets and inflorescence densely clothed with fine 



ferruginous or tawny 

 stellate hairs. Leaves 

 distichous, 2-4 in., from 

 a rounded base obovate- 

 oblong, acuminate, often 

 irregularly lobed in the 

 upper part, upper side 

 glabrous, under side 

 white or yellowish, 

 felted with fine stellate 

 bail's. Fl. yellowish- 

 white, sweet scented, 

 peduncles short, axil- 

 lary, sometimes bearing 

 2-3 flowers, bracteoles 

 deciduous, linear. Calyx 

 1 in., capsule 2-3 in. 

 in. diam., at- 

 into a stalk 

 i-f in. long, tapering 

 at the apex to a point, 

 white-velvety. 



"Western Peninsula on 

 the east side, along the 

 coast and inland on the 



hills, ascending to 3,000 ft . 



long, 



3 



tenuate 



Fig. 43, 



-Pterospermum suberifolium, Lam. 

 PI. fr. i. 



2. P. Heyneanum, Wall. ; Wight Ic. 489. Yern. Tada, Tel. 



A middle-sized tree, branchlets, petioles and inflorescence rusty-tornentose. 

 Leaves greyish-brown, tomentose beneath, variable in shape, ordinarily oblong, 

 coarsely toothed or lobed, blade 4-6, petiole ^ in. long, those on coppice shoots 

 palmately lobed, on petioles 2-3 in. long. Peduncles axillaiy, a little longer 

 than petiole, 1-3 fid., bracteoles palmatifid, calyx 2 in. long, petals obliquely 

 spathulate. Capsule brown- velvet} 7 , 2-2 h in. long. 



"Western Peninsula on the east side, along the coast and inland on the hills. Fl. C. S. 



Nearly allied : 3. P. reticulatum, "Wight et Am. (Polavu, Tarn.) "West side of the Penin- 

 sula, from North Kanara southwards. Fl. 2-3 together, nearly sessile, supported by 

 numerous imbricate deeply laciniate bracts almost mossy, segments filiform. Calyx 1-1J 

 in. 4. P. obtusifolium, "Wight. Tinnevelli Ghats. Leaves cuneate or obovate, obtuse, 



