128 MALVACER. [ Thespesia. 
nal tube 5-toothed at apex. _— 5- 4-celled, with os ovules 
in each cell, the style furrowed, club-shaped, entire or 5-toothed. — 
Capsule opening more or less io & loculicidally, almost woody. — 
Trees or shrubs, with entire or shortly lobed leaves. Flowers 
large, yellow. 
All younger parts and unripe — covered with rusty- -coloured 
scales ; seeds shortly tomentos . T. populnea. 
All younger eae and usually hs: leaves beneath shortly stellate- 
unripe capsules densely hirsute ; seeds glossy . T. Lampas. 
1. Th. populnea, Corr. ; H.f. Ind. Fl.i. 845 ; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 
t. 63.—An evergreen tree (80—35 + 3—6 +.3—4), often remaining 
shrubby, the younger parts all minutely rusty-lepidote, glabrescent ; 
leaves cordate, on rather long petioles, acuminate or almost cus- 
pidate, entire or waved, 4-6 in. long, glabrous, beneath sprinkled 
with minute rusty-coloured scales. ; flowers large, pale sulfur, 
turning reddish, on slender 1-3 in. long pedicels, — somewhat 
shorter sao te petioles ; involucre consisting of 1-3 deciduous 
te leaflets or sometimes quite Wanting? calyx bell- 
shaped, “nore with 5 minute teeth; capsule depressedly globose, 
rinkled with hers scales, but soon glabrous; seeds large, 
hooked, shortly tomentose. 
—Common in the beach and ee — all naa the shores from Chitta- 
gong aus to Tenasserim and the Andam Fl ; Fr. March-May.—l.— 
SS. = Sal. Aren. 
Remarxs.— Wood pale reddish-brown to brown, strong, even- acing: faa = 
iber 
hard. Ms for furniture, carpentry, &c. ; used for cart-wheels, spokes, & 
yields fibr 
2. Th. oom Dalz. ; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 345.—A sparingly 
branched meagre shrub up to 8 ft. high, the seunis parts more or less 
stellate-tomentose ; leaves variable in shape and size, cordate or ob- 
Jong-cordate, entire or shortly lobed, with the lobes acute or blunt, 
3-5 in. long, on rather short stellately puberulous petioles, more or 
less chartaceous, entire, while young usually on both sides stellate- 
tomentose, glabrescent above; flowers large, yellow with a purple 
eye, on short thick pedicels of the length of the petioles or a little 
longer, axillary and solitary, or more usually few together on long 
axillary peduncles and forming a poor leafy or bracted raceme : ; 
ieeclase consisting of 5 to 7 minute distant leaflets arising from 
__ the thickened end of the pedicels; calyx nearly truncate, with 5 
_ distant subulate lobes ; capsules ovoid, obtuse, or nearly so, slightly 
_5-angular, densely tawny hispid, more or less glabrescent when 
i ripe; seeds sonal, aaldat aed black and glossy. 
Has.—F all leaf-shedding forests, especiall ——— all 
over Davies a ype ey Fr, egy. eo oe 
