Tanietia.] XXIII. STERCULIAOE^. 141 



2. T. actinophylla (leaves radiating), Bail. Syn. Ql. Flora, p. 37. A large 

 tree, the young growth and inflorescence more or less covered with scurfy 

 tomentum, otherwise glabrous. Petioles 3 to 9in. long, often curved ilpward at 

 the end and bearing from 3 to 9 radiating oblong-lanceolate leaflets 3 to 9in. long, 

 including the often rather elongated petiolule. Flowers in loose, broad panicles, 

 6 to 15in. long. Calyx densely tomentose ; deeply lobed, campanulate, expanding 

 to about 3 lines. Carpels 1 to 2in. long, including the wing, which is from ^ to 

 lin. broad. 



Hab.; Southern, and particularly mountain, scrubs. 



Wood very toup;h, thought to resemble the English ash and to bend even better than that 

 wood, therefore should be useful for chair-making and similar work. — Bailey's Oat. Ql. Woods 

 No. 30 



3. HERITIERA, Ait. 



(After C. L. L. Heritier.) 



Flowers unisexual. Calyx 5-toothed or 5-cleft. Petals none. Staminal 

 column slender, bearing on the outside below the summit a ring of 5 anthers 

 with parallel cells. Carpels of the ovary 5, nearly distinct, 1-ovulate ; style 

 short, with 5, rather thick stigmas. Fruit-carpels woody, indehiscent, keeled or 

 almost winged on the back. Seeds without albumen, cotyledons very thick, the 

 radicle next the hilum. — Trees. Leaves undivided, coriaceous, scurfy under- 

 neath, penninerved. Flowers small, in axillary panicles. 



The genus consists of two tropical Asiatic seacoast trees, of which the one extending to 

 Australia has the widest range.— Benth. 



1. El. littoralis (found on the coast), Ait.; DC. Pivd. i. 484 ; Benth. Fl. 

 Austr. i. 231. A tree, attaining a considerable size. Leaves very shortly 

 petiolate, oval or oblong, the larger ones fully 8 by 4in., but often much smaller, 

 quite entire, coriaceous, glabrous above, silvery underneath with a close scaly 

 tomentum. Flowers small, numerous, in loose tomentose panicles in the upper 

 axils, much shorter than the leaves. Calyx about 2 lines long. Staminal column 

 .in the males, pistil in the females, much shorter than the calyx. Fruit-carpels 

 sessile, ovoid, 2 to Sin. long, thick and almost woody, with a slightly projecting 

 inner edge, and a strong, projecting, almost winged keel along the outer edge. 



Hab.: In Queensland, as in India, this tree is found on the coast and in tidal forests. In 

 Bengal it is known by the name of " Sundri," is considered durable, tough, and heavy, and 

 used extensively in boat-building, buggy-shafts, and furniture. 



The wood of the Queensland tree is firm, close-grained, and dark-coloured. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. 

 Woods No. 31. 



4. KLEINHOVIA, Linn. 

 (After M. Kleinhoff.) 

 Braeteoles small, ensiform. Sepals 5, deciduous. Petals 5, unequal, upper 

 with longer claws, margins involute. Staminal column dilated above into a bell- 

 shaped 5-fid cup, divisions each with 8 extroirse 2-eelled anthers, cells divergent. 

 Ovary inserted in the staminal cup, 5-lobed, 5-celled ; style slender, stigma 5-fid. 

 Capsule membranous, inflated, pyriform, loculicidally 5-valved. Seeds 1 or 2 in 

 each cell, tubercled ; albumen scanty or none ; cotyledons convolute ; radicle 

 next the hilum. — A tree with palminerved, ovate, acuminate, quite entire leaves, 

 and loose cymose inflorescence. 



1. K. hospita (stranger), Lhin. A tree with straight trunk, smooth bark, 

 and spreading head. Leaves on petioles of about lin. long, cordate, ovate, sub- 

 acuminate, entire, palmately 3 to 5-ribbed, smooth on both surfaces, 6 to 12in, 



