140 STERCULIACES. [ Heritiera. 
5. St. scaphigera, Wall.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 361.—A tree (90— 
120-480-700 Oo 13 ; shedding leaves in HS., all parts glabrous ; 
bark greyish-brown, 4 in. thick, peeling off in irregular concave 
pieces ; cut reddish, very fibrous ; leaves oblong to ovate-oblong, 
obtuse or rounded and strongly 3-nerved at base, bluntish acumi- 
nate, on a 14-3 (in young trees up to 5) in . long petiole, 5-8 in. 
ong, entire, coriaceous, glabrous; flowers 34- 4 in. in diameter, on 
very short and thick puberulous jointed pedicels, forming rather 
short, robust, much-branched puberulous panicles at the end of the 
thick branchlets ; calyx almost rotate, usually deeply 5-cleft, pale 
orange or yellowish with a reddish base, in bud greyish- puberulous, 
finally sparingly stellate-puberulous, glabrous inside, the lobes ob- 
long-lanceolate, acute; gynophore slender, curved, glabrous ; an- 
thers about 10-15 ; follicles 6-8 in. long, boat-shaped, open already 
in flower, herbaceous, ‘turning chartaceous, much nerved and 
veined, more or less puberulous outside and shortly eyish tomen- 
tose on the nerves and short stalk; a Bite the size of a 
cherry, obovoid or almost globose, exalbum 
Haxs.—Frequent in the tropical forests along mS ae ~ central slopes of 
the Pegu Yomah and Mart. —— also Chittagong and Tenasserim.—Fl. Febr.- 
March ; Fr. March-Apr.— :L—SS.— = Metam. SiS. Lat. 
EMARKS.— Wood sie light, coarsely fibrous, i. grained, white, very 
perishable. "dake yields a fibre. . 
HERITIERA, Ait. 
Flowers unisexual. Calyx 4-7- (usually 5-) cleft. Petals none. 
Staminal column slender, bearing a ring of 5 anthers; anther-cells 
parallel. Ovary-carpels ‘usually 5, nearly distinct, with a single 
ovule in each; style short, with 5 rather thick sti aged 
woody, indehiscent, ‘keeled, or almost winged on the back. 
Albumen none.-—Trees, with sim simple leaves ca a sige: 
Flowers small, in ary panicles. 
‘Tasman usuall cordate or rounded a: 
s leaves a pees. 
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usual fibrous-woody under the 
thin epicarp, obliquely and feondly depressed, the keel at the 
summit broad and almost wing-like 
* * Carpels glaucous green or grey, roughish and cory: 
ercled ; leaves long-petioled acrophylla. 
- iH littoralis, Dry. ; H. f. ad FLi i. 363 ; Bela. a Sy, Mad. 
oat Al, £. 6. —Psnglasbdad-eo. —An evergreen tree 20—30 
4-64 4—5), all the softer parts silvery-scaly ; bark grey ; leaves 
rand or o| oblong-lanceolate, on a thick, silvery scaly petiole 3-1 in. 
. rounded or oy cordate at base, 4-6 (of the shoots 
: 8-12) i in. long, almost blunt or acute, entire, es h 
. A. minor. 
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