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3—4) , leafless in HS., the younger parts more or less pubescent ; bark 
grey ; leaves broadly ovate or cordate, 3-5-lobed with the lobes short 
and cuspidate, occasionally undivided, entire, 4-6 in. long, on long 
slender glabrous petioles, chartaceous , glabrous or puberulous 
eath ; flowers scarlet, in simple, lax, scurfy-tomentose panicles ; 
calyx clavate-tubular, about 8 or 9 lin. long, 5-toothed, stellate- 
tomentose outside, velvety inside; gynophore slender, glabrous, 
— curved, as long as the calyx or somewhat longer; anthers 
umerous ; carpels glabrous; follicles dehiscing very early and leaf- 
like expa anded, chartaceous, oblong, on long slender stalks, glabrous, 
laxly net-veined, with usually 2 or rarely a solitary oblong seed 
along the su 
Has. Pregn in all leaf-shedding forests, all over Burma from Chittagong 
and Ava down to Tenasserim and the An damans, up to 3,000 ft. elevation.—Fl. 
os SEY; aul Hein, of R.S.—1—8S.—= ow SiS. 
Sia —The liber furnishes inferior cordage. 
13. St. falgens, Wall.—A leaf-shedding tree, the younger parts 
pubescent ; leaves nearly 14 ft. long and broad, cordate-rotundate, 
5-lobed, with the lobes acuminate, on long puberulous petioles, 
above stellately puberulous, beneath similarly tomentose or pubes- 
cent; flowers scarlet, 1-1} in. long, very much like those of the 
former, but more tabular, on short scurfy tomentose pedicels, 
forming scurfy tomentose panicles ; calyx clavate-tubular, scurfy 
stellate-tomentose outside, velvety inside, with a villous ring at 
7, shortly 5-cleft ; gynophore puberulous, half the eS *» the 
calyx or somewhat longer ; stamens numerous ; follicles unkn 
Has.—aAva ; Tenasserim. 
anulata, Wall.; H.f. Ind. nied i. 362. —A tree (100 
less acute, on a 14-2 in. long puberulous petiole, 3- to 5-nerved at 
base, 3-5 in. long, membranous, glabrescent above, shortly puberu- 
lous’ beneath; flowers green, on short jointed pedicels, formimg 
smooth, pruinous, short, and stiff panicles at the ends of the thick 
branchlets ; ; calyx bell-shaped, pruinous, 5-lobed, the lobes plone, 
at about the middle, chartaceous, nerved, and minutely puberulous; 
seed solitary at the base of the follicle, puberulous. | 
Has.—Frequent in the tro ical forests along the eastern slo of the Pegu 
Yomah sod Mastaban.—P March: Fr. Apr.—s:1.—SS. = Hehe 
= Remarxs. —Wood soft, white, coarsely fibrous, and rather loose, but ats 
“ Soe = and emails, takes polish. Exudes a gum resembling 
