360 XXVII. STERCULiACE^. (Maxwell T. Masters.) [Stereulia. 



1119, F. ; Hook. Ic, PI. 143 ; Dah. & Qihs. Bomb. Fl. 23 ; W. & A. Prodr. i. 

 63. 8. rubicunda, Wall. Cat. 1119, D, F, G. Firmiana colorata, Br. in 

 Benn. PI. Jav. Ear. 235 ; Thwaites Enum. 29. Erythropsis Koxburghiana, 



Schott & Endl. Melel. Bot. 33. 



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Eastern Benqal ; Pegu, tlie Western Peninsula, and Ceylon. 



A large tree ; trunk erect, bark ashy, branches spreading. Xeoues'&-9 by 5-12 in., 

 about the ends of the branches, base cordate, 3-lobed, lobes triangular acuminate ; 

 petiole 4-9 in.; stipules erect, lanceolate. Parjic^e terminal, coral-like, many-flowered ; 

 pedicels covered with orange-red tomentum. Calyx § in., tube 4 times longer than the 

 rounded rather obtuse lobes, orange-downy outside, pilose within ; anthers 30, reniform. 

 Styles recurved. Follicles 2-3 in., stipitate, glabrous, membranous. Seeds ovoid, smooth 

 or wrinkled, of the size of a field bean. — Brown, I.e., admits 8 varieties: Var. 1, with 

 fiirfuraceons calyx, tube nearly 4 times longer than the lobes. Var. 2 is S. fvlgens, 

 Wall. Var. 3 has calyx-lobes covered with loose spreading stellate hairs, tube scarcely 

 three times longer than the lobes. 



23. S. fulg'ens, Wall. Cat. IISS ; leaves cordate angular obscurely lobed 

 scabrid above pubescent beneath, calyx downy cylindric tubular curved. 

 Wall. Cat. 11192. Firmiana colorata var. ft Br. in Benn. PI. Jav. Rar. 

 235 ; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat., i. pt. 2, 178. 



Teopical Western Himalaya ; Kumaon, alt. 2500 ft., Strach. & Wint. ; Garwhal, 

 Falconer; Bibma and the Eastern Peninsula. — Distrib. Java. 



A small tree. Leaves ample, 10 by 6 in., coriaceous; petiole pubescent, 12-18 in. 

 Panicle erect, branches covered with rusty-stellate down, many-flowered. Fl&mers 

 ^-f in. , produced before the leaves, covered with yellowish down. Calyx-lobes ovate, 

 acute, 3-4 times shorter than the tube. Follicles stipitate. 



.24. S. llnearicarpa, Mast. ; leaves glabrescent cordate suborbicular, 

 panicle erect, peduncles thick compressed pilose, flowers dense, calyx 

 tubular-campanulate pilose lobes ovate acute, follicles linear-lanceolate 

 yellow downy. 



Malacca, Maingay. 



A tree. Leaves 6-12 in. each way, ample, coriaceous, entire, 7-nerved, nerves pro- 

 minent beneath ; petiole 3-8 in., apex thickened. Panicle terminal, erect, many- 

 flowered, rusty-pubescent, as long as the leaves ; pedicels spreading, jointed. Flower, 

 huds globose. Calyx J- j in., tube cylindric, limb rotate-campanulate ; lobes as long as 

 the tube. Staminal column slender. Follicles 3-4 in. 



Sect. III. Ftery^ota, Endl. (gen.). Follicles woody.- Seeds many, 

 winged at the apex, albuminous, radicle next the hilum. 



25. S. alata, Roxb. Eort. Beng. 50 ; PI. Cor. iii. 84, t. 287 ; Fl. Ind. 

 iii. 152 ; leaves cordate ovate acute glabrous, flowers nearly i in. flocco.se 

 tomentose, wing of seed large spongy. Wall Gat. 1125. Pterygota Rox- 

 burghii, Schatt <fc EndZ. Melet. P. alata, Br. in Benn. PL Jav. Rar. 234. 

 S. coccinea, Wall. Cat. 1122 partly. S. Heynii, Beddome Flor. Sylvat. t. 230. 



SiLHET and Chittagong, Roxburgh; Western Peninsula ; Tinnevelly, Heyne. 



A large tree ; herbaceous portions covered with dense golden pubescence. Bark ash- 

 coloured. Leaves 4-10 by 8-7 in., clustered about the ends of the branches, submem- 

 branous, 7-nerved ; petiole 1-4 in. ; stipules subulate. Panicles from the leafless 

 axils, few-flowered, shorter than the leaves. Bracteoles caducous. Calyx campanu- 

 late, densely tomentose, deeply 5-parted, segments linear-lanceolate. Staminal column 

 f tfie length of the calyx. 9 flowers : ovaries 5, sessile ; style recurved ; ovules nume- 

 rous. Follicles 5, 5 in. diam , globose, depressed, woody, clothed with mealy pubescence 

 outside, <iorky within. Seeds many, oblong, compressed, wing 2 in. and upwards by 

 1 J in. ; cotyledons not separable from the mealy albumen, radicle next the hilum.— 



