134 STERCULIACER. [ Stereulia. 
+ Leaves quite glabrous. 
Calyx shortly tubular, striate, the lobes erect St. longifolia, 
Calyx almost rotate, the lobes linear, very tong, and somewhat : 
twisted . coccinea. 
tt Leaves more or less tomentose or pubescent, at 
least beneath. 
A Flowers more than } in. bane in — 
brown-tomentose Sigg . St. rubiginosa. 
AA Flowers in panic 
Leaves tomentose ; calyx-lobes free and spreading flowers long- 
led . St. angustifolia, . 
Leaves minutely stellate-puberulons beneath calyx-lobes short and 
‘Ving 5 
flowers shortly pedicel St. parviflora. 
OO Follicles chartaceous = membranaceous, leaf -like 
exp 7 boat-sh 
X Follicles leaf-like expanded, beari aur lor 
—_s the marginal sutures at abo . 4. a their 
Fine scurfy tomentose, cri 
aie ee or Tess lobed, oc sap send aatat entir < waseen or 
“ste peers cays about 8-9 lin. long . St. colorata. 
Loaves ery nse, much lobed, dle beneath ; calyx ‘about 
-1} in - St. fulgens. 
as solitary and laterally adnate to the base of 
t-shaped fo 
Follicles produced below a about t — ils an as, as 
ao Be = lobe; leaves tomentose or Scan beneath, ra 
st. So ils 
Follicles simply boat-shaped ; leaves glabrous, glossy, coriaceous . St. scaphiger 
* Seeds numerous, winged along their upper end, esi ma 
woody large follicle. 
1, St. alata, Roxb.; Hf. Ind. Fl. i. 860 (8¢. Heynei, Bedd. 
Sylv. Madr. t. ” 930) — bet-kop e.—-A leaf-shedding tree (80—100 
+ 60—70 + 8—10), the leaf buds tawny puberulous; bark you 
thick, corky, ash-grey ; leaves cordate-oblong, 4-7 in. long (in oung 
trees up to a ft. long), on long glabrous petioles, shortly scomiti 
or acute, 5- or almost 7-nerved at base, chartaceous, entire, glabrous ; 
flowers about 13 in. in diameter, greenish, on the outside covered 
with a rusty-brown scurvy tomentum, purplish inside, on very short 
thick rusty-tomentose pedicels, forming rusty-scurvy-tomentose 
axillary racemes usually forming a spurious terminal panicle ; calyx 
almost to the base 5-cleft, bell-shaped, the lobes oblong-lanceolate, 
stamens about 25; ovaries 5, in the Seanaile herma od os flowers 
sessile and surrounded by 5 sessile bundles of salieaaiect stamens ; 
follicle as large as or fibro woody, nearly 
rge ’s fist or larger, usly 
oa Bars long-stalked, clothed with an as e-brown velvety 
___ tomentum ; seeds large, numerous, attached to the borders of the 
valves, a es compressed, terminated by a long, broad, spongy 
es 
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