Guazuma. | STERCULIACEZ. 149 
membranous, shortly puberulous above, softly velvety tomentose 
beneath ; stipules broadly cordate, large, more or less pubescent ; 
_ flowers small, pale-rose coloured or sometimes white, on very short 
tomentose pedicels, forming large tomentose corymb-like long- 
uncled panicles at the end of the branchlets or in the axils of 
the leaves; calyx greyish tomentose or pubescent ; capsules oblong, 
about 3 lin. long or somewhat longer, hirsute, deeply 5-lobed, the 
mature carpels separating and terminating in a subulate hirsute 
point ; seeds solitary in the cells, brown, smooth, winged at the 
extremity. 
1 _Has.—Rather rare in the tropical forests of Pegu, Martaban, and Tenas- 
| Plies Ww 1 ed, soft, silvery-gl 
MARKS.—Wood whitish, ve ight, even-grained, soft, silvery-glossy. 
| Good for nothing but children’s boys: : = pasion! 
GUAZUMA, Plum. 
Sepals 5, united almost to the middle, at first spathaceous. 
Petals 5, concave at base, at the apex produced into 2 narrow strap- 
: shaped appendages. Stamens 10, connate in a column, tubular at 
base and terminated by 5 fertile 3-antheriferous filaments alternat- 
ing with as many lanceolate staminodes ; anthers 2-celled, the cells 
diverging. Ovary sessile, 5-lobed and -celled, with numerous ovules 
m each cell; styles more or less connate. Capsule oblong, woody, 
tubercled. Seeds albuminous.—Trees, with simple leaves and small 
Owers in axillary cymes. 
1. G. tomentosa, H. B. K.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. t. 107; Hf. 
Ind. Fl. i. 375.—An evergreen tree (30—60 + 10—30+2—5), the 
softer parts shortly stellate-tomentose; leaves unequally ovate or 
ovate-oblong, about 4-5 in. long, rather short petioled, unequally 
: cordate at base, acuminate, irregularly toothed, above scabrous from 
4 minute stellate hairs, beneath shortly tomentose ; flowers small, 
= yellow or dark-purple, forming peduncled short usually dichotom- 
ously branched cymes in the axils of the leaves; capsules woody, 
indehiscent, oblong or almost globular, echinate-tubercled, black, 
many-seeded. 
. oS pote American tree sometimes seen planted as an avenue tree.—Fl. R. 
7 ea Pe C8. 
_ ___ RemarxKs.—Wood light, loose-grained, light-brown or 
fibrous ee furniture, king re 
a , takes good polish, and is good for furniture, packing cases, Wc. 
Bie young tend alte car sings anol a aio for clarifying sugar. 
LEPTONYCHIA, Turcz. 
Sepals 5, valvate. Petals 5, shorter than the sepals, concave, val- : 
= vate. Staminal column tubular below, above divided into 3 series of oe 
