132 STERCULIACER. [ Durio. 
almost indehiscent. Seeds arillate.—Trees with simple leaves, all 
parts usually more or less silvery or coppery scaly. Flowers in 
lateral cymes. 
heads ; fruits as large as a child’s head and larger, usually more or 
less globular to ovoid-oblong, the woody valves firmly adhering to 
one another and covered by sharp conical prickles; seeds large, 
oblong, covered by a thick, cream-coloured, sappy, deliciously-tasting 
arillus. 
tiv? 
Has.—Cultivated in Upper Tenasserim ; wild and forming forests in Lower 
Tenasserim from Lat. 14° southwards (Helf.).—Fr. May-June. 
Remarxks.—A favourite fruit with the Burmese and Malays in spite of its 
disagreeable smell. 
STERCULIACEZ. 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite, or unisexual. Sepals 5, more or 
less, rarely wholly, connate. Petals 5 or none. Stamens usuall 
united into a ring cup or tube, many or rarely few and free; anthers 
2-celled, in heads, orin a single ring at the apex or dispersed on the 
outside of the staminal column, with or without intervening stami- 
odes. , 2-5-celled, rarely of a single carpel, sessile or 
stalked, with many or few anatropous ovules attached to the inner 
angle of the carpels ; styles as many as ovary-cells, united or free. 
Fruit dry or fleshy, dehiscent or tndehiscent. Seeds rarely aril- 
late, with or without albumen. Cotyledons leafy, flat, folded or 
convolute.— Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with alternate, simple, or pal- 
mately or digitate leaves. Stipules present. Flowers in 
axillary or terminal, usually cymose inflorescences. 
