﻿187-1.] of the Burmese Flora. 115 



* Leaves di^i^itate. 



Leaves glabrous; calyx rather large, the lobes spreading, ... ...SLfcutlda. 



Leaves canescent tomeutose beneath ; calyx simill, the lobes conniving, shoi-t, 



...St. versicolor. 



* * Leaves palmately lobed or cut. Leaf-shedding trees. 



Carpels densely covered with stiff fragile hairs ; flowers small, ... ...St.urens. 



Carpels shortly tomentose from stellate hairs, ., ^ ... ...St. Villosa. 



Carpels densely covered with stiff short hairs, glabrescent ; flowers nearly fin. in 

 diametei', ... ... ... .. ... ...St. ornata. 



* * * Leaves all entire. Small evergreen trees or meagre shrubs. 



O Leaves quite glabrous. 



Y> Calyx-lobes not spreading, almost erect or more usually conni- 

 ving with their tips. 

 Calyx shortly tubular, striate, the lobes of the length of the tube, ...'S'^. longifolia. 



Y. X Calyx almost rotate. 

 Calyx lobes from a broader base linear, very long and somewhat twisted, ..St. coccinea. 

 O O Leaves more or less tomentose or puberulous, at least beneath. 

 X Flowers more than ^ in. long, in simple brown tomentose 

 racemes. 

 Leaves beneath and petioles softly rusty pubescent, ,,. ,..St. ruhiginosob. 



X X Flowers in panicles. 

 Leaves tomentose ; calyx-lobes free and spreading ; flowers long-pedicelled, 



...St. angnstifoUa, 



Leaves beneath minutely stellate-puberulous ; calyx-lobes short and connivent ; flowers 



shortly pedicelled, ... ... ... ... ...St. parvifiora. 



Suhg. 2. Firmiana. Calyx tubular. Seeds without wings. Carpels chartaeeous and 



expanded leaflike, bearing 1 or 2 seeds along the marginal sutures at about ^ of 



their length. 



Leaves more or less lobed, occasionally almost entire, glabrous or puberulous beneath ; 



, calyx about 8-9 lin. long, ... ... ... ...St. colorata. 



Leaves very large, much lobed, pubescent beneath ; calyx about 1 to 1 J in. long, 



...St.fulgens. 

 Suhg. 3. ScapJiium. (incl. Pterocgmhium and CarpopTiyllium). Calyx more or less 

 campauulate. Seeds without wings, solitary, laterally adnate to the base of the boat- 

 shaped chartaeeous or membranous follicles. 



* Follicles produced below at about the middle into an additional bluntish 



sac-like lobe. 

 Leaves more or less tomentose or pubei'ulous beneath; calyx campauulate, green, 



...St. camjjjanulata. 



* * Follicles not produced into an additional lobe. 



Leaves coriaceous, glabrous, glos.sy ; calyx almost rotate, yellowish, ,..St. scaphigera. 



Buhg. 4. Pterygota. Seeds numerous, winged along their upper end, enclosed in a woody 



large follicle. 

 Leaves entire, glabrous, 5-nerved at base; follicles as large as the fist, ... St. alata. 



1. St. r(ETii>A, L sp. pi. U31; Roxb. Fl. Incl. III. 151 j Wight Ic. 

 t. 181 and 364 ; Hf. Ind. Fl. I. 354. 



Hab. Not unfrequent in the upper mixed forests of the Pegu Yomah. 

 Fl. Apr. May j Fr. Febr. March. 



