Sterculia. | STERCULIACER. 137 
acuminate, beneath densely pubescent with stellate hairs, above 
sprinkled with minute fascicled hairs ; flowers rather large, on 3 to 
nearly an in. long pedicels, usually pale ochre-coloured with a reddish 
base, forming several softly tomentose panicles towards the ends of 
the thick branches; calyx minutely pubescent, half an in. long, 
the lobes lanceolate, spreading ; gynophore stellately tomentose, 
the anther-heads incurved, in the female flowers the ovaries densely 
hispid-tomentose ; follicles by 5-7, densely covered with pungent 
nearly a line long fragile hairs, glabrescent, about 24-3 in. long, 
rather cylindrical, recurved or incurved-acuminate ; seeds several, 
oblong, black and smooth. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of the Pegu Yomah and 
Martaban down to Tenasserim.—Fl. Febr.; Fr. March-Apr.—l.— SS. = SiS., 
CaS., Metam 
REMaRKs.—Wood soft, fibrous, white. The liber furnishes cordage equal to 
that of the preceding species. Exudes gum. 
7. St. longifolia, Vt. (St. striatiflora, Mast. in Hf. Ind. Fl. i. 
356).—An evergreen tree, all parts glabrous; leaves obovate- 
_ oblong, 8-9 in. long, on a 1-1} in. long petiole, narrowed towards 
the base, abruptly and shortly bluntish acuminate, entire, charta- 
ceous, strongly nerved and net-veined, glabrous; flowers about 
23-3 lin. long, on short puberulous pedicels, forming slender 
puberulous racemes much shorter than the leaves ; calyx bell-shaped, 
on the outside almost ribbed longitudinally and slightly stellate-pu- 
berulous, minutely velvety inside; the lobes lanceolate, tomentose 
along the borders, erect-spreading, nearly as long as the tube; 
Synophore in male flowers very short; stamens about 15, in a dense 
head ; follicles oblong, about 2-2} in. long, almost sessile, scarlet, 
velvety, glabrous inside ; seeds ovoid, blackish. 
-—Burma, probably Tenasserim. 
8. St. coccinea, Roxb.; Hf. Ind. Fl. i. 357.—A simple- 
stemmed evergreen shrub, 2-4 ft. high, not or slightly branched 
upwards, glabrous, or the young shoots slightly stellate-pubescent ; 
leaves oblong or elliptically lanceolate, 8 to 9 in. long, rounded or 
obtuse at base, on a glabrous petiole 1-2 in. long, acuminate, entire, 
chartaceous, glabrous, the nerves and veins very distinct ; flowers 
ofa delicate pinkish-rose colour, middling-sized, on slender rather 
long pedicels, forming slender slightly glandular-pubescent 
panicles usually shorter than the leaves ; calyx rotate, nearly 1} in. 
mm diameter, deeply 5-cleft, the lobes spreading, from a broad base 
_ Narrow- , woolly inside, sparingly stellate-puberulous outside ; 
ou Pegs glabrous ; follicles (in — plants) coriaceous, — 
vear-obiong, long rec’ -beaked, velv bright] i 
Bin, me ee 3g Eres ety, brightly crimson, 
