Buettneria. | - STERCULIACER. 151 
x ves cordate-oblong, entire 
cee about 14 in, thick, greyish ‘velvety, covered with — 
y prickles - B, aspera. 
Gupuiiien 4 in. in Sinenutee; quite glabrous, woody prickly . B. echinata. 
eaves more or less lobed or angular. Capsules the size 
More or less roughish rillate -tomentose; capsules densely covered 
@ flexible bristles . B, pilosa, 
Glabrous or ear 80; aaa dovered with tong, stiff, eniboth: 
. B. Andamanensis. 
. B. aspera, Colebr. ; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 377.—A large scandent 
shrub, the trunk often 2-3 ft. in girth, the younger rene minutely 
puberulous; 3; bark brown ; eres cordate-oblong, on a glabrous or 
eich neath, but soon quite glabrous; flowers small, yellowish 
and puberulous outside, pinkish inside, on long, slender, greyish, 
puberulous pedicels collected into little umbels aa forming greyish 
puberulous branched cymes in the axils of the leaves; sic fleshy, 
shorter than the _— cuneate, with a recurved t on the 
borders, narrowed into a purple incurved claw, the bite: conniving 
with their 2-cleft ni a little below of which arise the filiform 
pubescent processes ; capsules woody, 1-2 in. in diameter, almost 
globular, dirty grey and roughish velvety from a minute stellate 
“rg gee echinate from short, strong, rather distant sharp pric- 
kles, 5-celled ; seeds solitary in the cells, ovate-oblong. 
Hazp.—Not anfroqnet in the tropical forests from Peg = Beg down 
- nasserim and the Andamans—Fl. Apr. -May—s: SiS. Metam. 
2. B. echinata, Wall. (B. crenulata, Mast. in HE Ind. Fi. i. 
376 in part, not of Wall.).—Probably a climber; leaves elliptical 
to elliptically ovate, rounded at the base, shortly ‘acuminate, on a 
egrag about 1-14 in. long petiole thickened at both ends, 3-nerved 
t the base, chartaceous, obsoletely crenulate, glabrous, 14-3 in. 
long capsule globose, $ in. thick, glabrous, covered with rather 
distant subulate acuminate prickles of 2-34 lin. length. 
Has.—Pegn. 
3 , Roxt:; £. Ind. Fl. i. 377 Paes oy —s 
large scandent aheuB: the stems as thick as a man’s thigh, 
ee Sait 6 in Be is bi I = 
5 in. long, shortly 3-5-lobed with the lobes acuminate, serra 
_ toothed, ee ee on both sides — with short stellate 
roughish ‘hairs, beneath while young softly tomentose ; flowers 
_ Small, yellowish, on short but slender ine in little umbels 
forming short compound puberulous cymes in the axils of ‘ = 
te, 5 to . each way, on a stellate hirsute 
