356 xxTii. STERCULiACE^. . (Maxwell T. Masters.) {Sterculia. 



W. & A. Prodn: L 62 ; Wight. Ic. t. 487 ; Thwaites Enum. 29 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 23 ; Beddome Fl. Sylvat. t, 105 ; Br. in Benn. PI. Jav. Ear. 229. 

 S. cuneata, Beyne ms. in Wall. Cat. 1127^ S. alata, Wall. Oat. 1127 D, 

 not of others.— Eheede Sort. Mai. iv. t. 61. 



Western Peninsula, Concan, Nilgliiri Mts.; Malabar ;_ Eastern Peninsdla, at 

 Malacca and the Andaman Isles ; Ceylon, Ambagamowa district. , 



A tree. Trunk straight. £ark cracked, asb-coloured, inner fibrous. Young shoots 

 pubescent. Leaves 7-8 by 4 in., scabrid above, nerves stellate-pilose beneath ; petiole 

 2 in., thinly stellate pilose ; stipules ensiform, caducous. Panicle equalling the leave.s, 

 branches horizontal, rusty-tomentose ; nltimate pedicels shorter than the flowers. Bracts^ 

 lanceolate. JFlower-buds globose. Flowers chiefly <J. Calyx J in., densely rusty- 

 downy outside, glandular within, campanulate, 5fid ;. segments broadly ovate-acute, 

 ultimately reflexed, covered with lon^ hairs. Anthers 12. Ovary stalked, globose, 

 3-5-lobed. Style curved, stigma 3-5-lobed. Follicles 1-5, size of a small apple, each 

 about 3 in., obovoid, covered with reddish down, smooth, pink within. Placentas villous. 

 Seeds oblong ; testa black, brittle ; between it and the second coat, which is brown and 

 tough, is a soft white sebaceous substance, innermost coat thin, membranous ; albumen 

 amygdaloid ; cotyledons elliptic. 



Brown, I.e., makes two vars., a with oblong ovate acute leaves ; and /3 with obovate 

 acuminate leaves and racemes much shorter than the leaves. — Cloth is made from the 

 bark in Malabar. 



6. S. Roxburg'lili, Wall. Cat. 1124 ; leaves glabrous oval or oblong- 

 lanceolate suddenly acuminate base rounded, racemes erect shorter than the 

 leaves. Wall. PI. As. Par. 262 ; Br. in Benn. PL Jav. Par. 229. S. lan- 

 ceaefolia, Poa^. Sort. Beng. 50 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 150, not of Cav. S. ovalifolia, 

 Wall. Cat. 1132. S. alata. Wall. Cat. 1125. in part. 



Temperate Himalaya, ascending in Sikkim 6000 ft., J. D. H. ; Silhet and 

 Assam. 



A tree. Sarh 3,shj. Zea«e« 4^-8 by 1-3 in., lanceolate ; petiole J-1 in., thickened at 

 both ends; stipules subulate. Bacemes 2 in., axillary, few-flowered, pedicels erecto- 

 patent sparingly stellate-pilose. 6 fl. most numerous. Calyx 4 in. diam., scarlet, cam* 

 panulate, 5-parted, segments oblong-lanceolate, spreading, longer than the tube. Fol- 

 licles 1-5, 3 in., lanceolate, beaked, downy-scaberulous, pink. Seeds 4^, black, ovoid, 

 coats as in S. guttata (Roxb.), albumen scanty ; cotyledons thick. — Wallich's S. ovali- 

 folia only difiers in its oval leaves. 



7. S. parvifolia, Wall. Cat. 1123; leaves glabrous lanceolate base 

 tapering, racemes simple shorter than the leaves. Br. in Benn. PI. Jav, 

 Par. 229. 



Malacca and Penano, Porter, &o. 



A small tree. Branches glabrous, purplish, bark cracking, leaving whitish strise. 

 Leaves 4-6 by IJ in. ; petiole 2 in., thickened at the apex. Macemes axillary, shorlcr 

 than the leaf. Flowers red. Follicles 2 in., downy, oblong. Seeds black. — Specimens 

 imperfect. 



8. S. striatlflora, Mast. ; leaves glabrous oblong-acute base tapering, 

 panicle branched shorter than the leaves, calyx funnel-shaped striated. 



BiKMA, Griffith. 



A shrub. Leaves 8-18 by 4-6 in., leathery, arch-veined, midrib prominent ; petiole 

 1 in. ; stipules subulate. Branches of panicles erecto-patent, ultimate pedicels shorter 

 than the flowers. Bracteoles minute. Coiya; 4 iH' i glabrous, pink externally, longitu- 

 dinally striated ; lobes linear, erecto-patent. — Imperfect specimens only seen. 



9. S. macrophylla, Vent. Hort. Malm. ii. n. 91, in note; leaves glabrous 

 above tomentose beneath suborbicular quite entire base deeply cordate, 

 calyx-lobes triangular. Br. in Benn. PI. Jav. Ear. 230. 



