144 STERCULIACER. [ Pterospermum. 
woolly tomentose, 5-toothed; petals glabrous, not much longer 
than the calyx; staminal tube pilose at the middle; ovary pilose, 
the style glabrous. 
Has.—Adjoining provinces of Siam. 
5. H. obtusa, Wall.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 366.—A small shrub, all 
iced parts shortly tawny tomentose ; leaves oblong to oblong- 
lanceolate, on short tawny tomentose petioles, obtuse or rounded be 
the Sonarved base, blunt or acute and usually mucronate, 2-2 
long, chartaceous, entire, above sprinkled with short stellate haley 
bunioath shortly tawny stellate-tomentose ; flowers small, short ey 
column glabrous; capsules oblong, short, about 7-8 lin. ees 
densely covered with long villous filiform soft prickles, the carpels 
closely cohering, blunt or “nearly so so 
Has.—Tenasserim.—Fl. June; Fr. ec -Apr. 
6. H. plebeja, Kz.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 866.—A small shrub, all 
softer parts scabrous from short stellate hairs ; leaves ovate-lanceo- 
late to ovate-oblong, on a short but slender petiole, rounded at 
base, about 3-5 in. long, more or less irregularly toothed, acumi- 
nate, membranous, above almost glabrous or sparingly | and shortly 
hairy, beneath scabrous from minute stellate hairs, while young 
densely greyish-stellate-pubescent, rarely the tomentum persistent ; 
flowers small, pale-lilac, shortly pediceled, forming poor slender 
stellate-puberulous fascicles in the axils of the leaves; calyx about 
re lin. long, sparingly stellate-hairy ; petals somewhat longer than 
the calyx; capsules 8-10 lin. long, stellate-tomentose and softly 
prickly, the carpels soon oa and terminating in more or less 
Bohn gee poin 
—Frequen eee fe gemags the upper mixed forests of J 
—Fl. Oct.-Sep Jan.- — 
het and Marta, up to real - elevation. 
+1.—SS.— SiS., Metam. 
7. H. elongata, Wall.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 365.—Much like = 
former, the leaves more or less stellate-pubescent beneath and 1 
so above; flowers springing from slender, elongate, often 3-4 in. in. 
oraie leafless, axillary branchlets, rarely in ‘short fascicles, as in H. 
ce: A 
PTEROSPERMUM, Schreb. 
aus 8, entire or cut, sometimes very deciduous. Calyx 
os tabulads 5-cleft, ‘deciduous. Petals 5 5, deciduous. Staminal column 
