Pterospermum.| _ STERCULIACER. 145 
nodes alternating with as many trios of filamented anthers ; anther- 
cells linear, parallel. Ovary sessile on the summit of the column, 
ed with several ovules in each cell; style simple. Capsule 
woody or coriaceous, opening loculicidally in 5 valves. Seeds pro- 
duced into a terminal wing. Albumen little or mone.—Trees and 
shrubs, with simple, entire or more or less lobed leaves. Flowers 
usually showy, axillary. Stipules entire or cut. 
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| * Capsules distinctly 5-cornered. Leaves large and broad. 
Bractlets and stipules pinnatifid . = ° : . r . Pt. acerifolium, 
Bractlets entire ‘ . Pt. aceroides. 
3k Capsules terete or nearly FP ee 
Leaves semisagittate at base; stipules pinnatifid . Pt. semisagitta- 
tum. 
©O Leaves not semisagittate at base. 
t+ Pedicels much longer than the petioles : ‘i 
+f Pedicels short, about the length of the petioles, 
or rarely a little longer. 
Leaves entire, acuminate, beneath rusty (rarely greyish) tomen- 
tose ; stipules and bractlets linear-subulate with a cucullate 
appendage . : ‘ é ‘ . : > . P. cinnamomeum, 
Leaves usually angular at summit; stipules and bractlets entire, 
lanceolate, without appendag ‘ : . : - + P. javanicum. 
1. Pt. acerifolium, Willd. ; H-f. Ind. Fl. i. 868; Bedd. Sylv. 
Madr. 35; Brand. For. Fl. 35, t. 11.—TZoung-hpet-woon.—An ever- 
A, . 
P. lanceefolium. 
apex, distantly repand, toothed or entire, coriaceous, glabrous above, 
beneat tawny or yellowish-grey tomentose with an intermixture of 
Sy coloured fugaceous wool ; flowers very large, white, on very 
s ort . : 
leaves 
calyx 
_, H4s.—Frequent in the tropical and moister upper mixed forests along 
Rewarxs.—Wood tie mae brown, coarsely fibrous, takes a fine polish. 
2. Pt. aceroides, Wall.—An evergreen tree, (40—50+20—25 
+3—4), all altar packs densely tomentose ; leaves oblong or broadly _ 
usually a little oblique, those of the younger trees palmat 
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