136 STERCULIACER. [ Stereuha. 
in HS., the softer parts stellately tomentose; bark pale ash- 
coloured, jimedeiy Re eling off in papery flakes ; leaves ecdal at the 
ends o thick pees about 1-14 ft. broad and long, usually 
5- lobed, wa the lobes acuminate (the basal ones often overlapping 
each other), herbaceous, or somewhat chartaceous, densely tomentose, 
the tomentum of the upper side bart short ; flowers rather small, 
greenish, ee in much-branched tomentose panicles, the 
cels furnished at their bases with long brown linear bractlets ; 
calyx Bal ikabed, 5-toathed, 24-3 lines long ; gynophore thick and 
half as long as the calyx ; carpels 5, tomentose ; follicles coriaceous, 
ovate-oblong to “ablong. acute at the recurved apex, orange to 
bright red, covered by a dense short tomentum intermixed with 
numerous stiff, fragile, pungent hairs; seeds 3-6, oblong, black. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the drier upper mixed oat 9 of the Pegu Yomah 
and Martaban, up to 3,000 ft. elevation ; also in the mixed dry forests of Prome ; 
Tenasserim.—Fr. March-Apr.— 
RemarKs.—Wood soft, spongy, and loose-grained, ee 0 ‘=33pd. 
Yields a gum resembling tragacanth. Liber furnishes fibre 
5. St. villosa, Roxb.; H.f. Ind. Fl. 355; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 
32 5 Brand. For. Fl. 32, t. 10.—Shaw-nee.—A tree (60—70+ 
40—45 +4—6), leafless during HS., the younger parts tomentose ; 
bark smooth, almost glossy, grey, covered. with corky warts; cut 
red ; leaves large, rotundate or cordate, palmately 5-7 lobed, 1-14 
ft. each way, on long densely puberu lous petioles, 5-7 -nerved at 
base, while young pubescent on both sides, glabrescent above, the 
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lobes acute or acuminate and usually again lobed; flowers nume- 
rous, pale yellow, with pink or orange eye, on slender puberu- 
ous icels, forming larger or smaller more or less pendulous 
tawny tomentose panicles towards the extremities of the branches ; 
haped, deeply 5-cleft, puberulous outside ; gynophore 
short, slender and curved, glabrous ; stamens 10 ; ovary “puberulous ; 
follicles coriaceous, oblong, bright red, densely and shortly tomen- 
tose outside and shortly hispid tomentose inside, about 14-2 in 
long by 1 im. or more thick, almost sessile. 
Hazs.—Frequent in the upper mixed — of the ise and hie Yomah 
and Martaban ; also Ava, Tenasserim, and the Andamans.—Fl. H.S. ; Fr. Begin. 
of RS.—1—ss. oie Manes: SiS. 
EMARKS.—Wood soft, reddish, fibrous. The liber is very _— and lasting, 
and is made most readily into ropes, and extensively used as such by the Burmese 
mahouts, ete., to such a degree that the tree has become se. poste in the outer hills 
_in the more accessible forests. Exudes a gum. 
_ §. St. ornata, Wall.—Sza-wa.—aA tree (50—60 + 25—40 + 3— 
5), resembling the former species, shedding leaves in HS., the shoots 
tomentose from nm (in a dried state brown ), soft, often 
glandular opie cut white ; ead ‘eid. 5-7-lobed, with the lobes 
