— Stereulia. | STERCULIACER. 135 
RemarKs.— Wood rather light, coarsely fibrous, yellowish-white, perishable: 
* * Seeds not winged, 2 or more along the suture of the carpels 
or solitary and laterally adnate to the base of the foltiele. 
O Follicles coriaceous, not leaf-like or boat-shaped. 
2. St. foetida, L.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 854; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 
31.—A large tree (80—90 +40--60+4+8—10), pe Rem, leaves in 
HS., glabrous, except the young shoots ; leaves crowded at the ends 
of the thick branchlets, long petioled, digitately 5- er tae 
leaflets oblong or elliptically oblong, or almost lanceolate, 6 
long, shortly petioluled, narrowed at base, usually a or 
cuspidate, entire, almost coriaceous or chartaceous, glabrous ; flowers 
. = sa large, dull-purple, forming lax, simple, or branched glabrous 
| racemes about as long as the petioles; calyx deeply 5-cleft, about 
an in, across, glabrous outside, densely woolly inside, lobes 
lanceolate, spreading ; gynophore slender and pia: 2 puberulous ; 
carpels 5, very villous ; 3 follicles about 3-4 in. long by 24 broad, 
glabrous, and while young somewhat pruinous pe isons 
inside ; seeds 10-15, oblong, large. 
Haz ee Tenasserim ; also Martaban.—Fl. Apr.-May; Febr.-March.— 
L—SS.—Meta 
REMARK 8 very light, coarsely fibrous and rather loose-grained, white, 
then then yellowish, takes an indifferent polish. Liber furnishes fibre. Exudes gum 
3. St. versicolor, Wall.; Hf. Ind. Fl. i. 355.—Shaw-hpyoo.— 
A tree (80—90 + 40—60 - 8—10), sage stunted in sterile 
ess during HS., the stem grey; leaves digitately 
5-foliolate, on a shortly greyish tomentose petiole 6-8 in. long ; 
leaflets oblong-lanceolate, on a 6 lin. long petiolule, acuminate, 
entire, rather acute at base, 5-7 in. long, glossy and dark-green 
above, glabrous and canescent or greyish as beneath ; flowers 
small, odorous, pale yellow, turning deeply orange, on very short 
mose, forming gre ubescent axillary ‘panicles some- 
what shorter than the petioles ; calyx oblong-bell-shaped, almost 
fleshy, villous, about 5 jin. long, 5-6- rarely 7-cleft, the lobes short, 
oblong, blun untish, conniving, but distinct at their tips ; gynophore 
glabrous ; ovary densely villous; follicles similar to those 
wrens, but larger, oblong, sessile, incurvedly and stontly acuminate, 
=a in. long by more than an in. thick, crimson o 
nA and covered with stiff, fragile bristles, siehea inside. 
< S ee —— in — a Fae mixed (es aie gehe~ the Saw _—— and in eg 
-—Fl, Qetob.; 
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aes 4. St. urens, Ro Ae, Ind. Fl. i. 355; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 
82; Brand. For. Fl. 33.— A tree (60—70+ 40——50-+8—10), leafless 
