146 STERCULIACER. [ Plerospermuth, 
5-7-lobed, on a rather short greyish tomentose petiole, 5-7-nerved, 
deeply and usually unequally cordate at base, shortly acuminate or 
apiculate, glabro ous above, beneath greyish or tawny tomentose ; 
ipules ... ; flowers large, white, on short thick pedicels, arising by 
3 or 2 from a short axillary tomentose peduncle ; bractlets oblong- 
lanceolate, tomentose, entire; sepals 2-3 in. long, very thick coria- 
us, from the middle recurved, linear, rusty tomentose and striate 
outside, tawny stellate-pubescent and. yellow on the inner side; 
s white, almost tubular-connivent and erect, unequally obovate ; 
stamens in bundles of 5, each bundle alternating with a long linear 
staminode, all united at the very base ; style glabrous; ovary tawny 
tomentose ; capsules oblong, 5-angled. 
Has.—Tenasserim and per eee in tropical forests. —Fl. H. S—s._8S.= 
SiS. Metam 
owiit:. —Wood exactly like that of the former species. 
3. Pt. itta Roxb.; Hf. Ind. Fl. i. 368,—WNa- 
kyay-pen or naj yay pen .—A tree (50—60 +25—30 +3—6), shed- 
ding leaves in HS., all the younger parts more or less tawny to- 
meres Pek ery, 1-2 lin. thick, peeling off in rounded, concave, 
cular and rathe r large flake s, longitudinally channelled ; leaves 
eicas or oblong-lanceolate, on a very short petiole, unequally 
cordate or rounded at base with the one lobe much larger and usually 
more or less sagittately produced, 7-8 in. long, acuminate, entire, 
chartaceous, glabrous above, greyish (along the strong nerves tawny) 
tomentose ; stipules finely pinnatifid ; flowers large, white, on ghork 
rusty tomentose pedicels, aneres solitary, terminal and a 
bracts usually 3, very e, and forming a woolly involucre, 38 
cleft, the segments ‘adioialy lobed and pinnatifid-fringed ; calyx 
about 4 in. long, ee sepals reflexed, linear-lanceolate, thin coria- 
, stellate-tomentose and 8-nerved outside, velvety inside; ovary 
of s sant stellate-tomentose; capsules almost terete, 
ovate-sblong, ‘Sant, narrowed in a thick short stalk, woody, covered 
with copious brown fugaceous “stellate and somewhat furfuraceous 
sar eerise 5-celled, 2-3 in. long. 
4B.—Frequent in the mixed and ee Sr ciel all over Burma from Chitta- 
Gide ant Shs Sows G Tees Fr. C.S.—s X L—SS. = wSiS. 
Remazrxs.—Wood heavy, ae ee 
4. Pt. lanceefolium, Roxb. ; H-f. Ind. FL. i. 368; Brand. For. 
_ FL. 35.—An evergreen tree, all ‘younger parts ereyish or whitish 
: tomentose ; leaves lanceolate, somewhat a tog / unequally 
tomento 
amen, eee on a 1-2 i 
