Waltkeria.] xxtii. sterculiace^. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 375 



' Common in all the hotter parts of India, from Kdmaon alt. 4000 ft. to Malacca and 

 Ceflon. — DisTiuB. A widely difiiised Tropical weed. 



Perennial, villous. Leaves 1-3 in., shortly petioled, cordate-ovate, oblong, obtuae, 

 toothed, plaited. Mowers yellow, J in. Bracts narrow, villous. Sepals lanceolate, 

 acuminate. Petals longer than the sepals, stalked. 



13. ABROItCA, Jacq. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves cordate, ovate-oblong, serrulate, sometimes 

 angled. Peduncles opposite the leaves, few-flowered. Sepals 5, connate 

 near the base. FetaU 5, purplish, concave below, prolonged above into a 

 large spoon-shaped lamina. Staminal-cup of 5 fertile and as many sterile 

 divisions, fertile filaments opposite the petals, 3-antherif erous ; anthers 

 2-lobed, lobes divergent. Staminodes longer than the fertile filaments, 

 obtuse. Ovary sessile, pyramidal, 5-lobed ; cells many-ovuled ; styles 5. 

 Capsule membranous, 5-angled, 5-winged, truncate at the apex, septi- 

 cidaJly 5-valved, valves villous at the edges. Seeds numerous, albuminous ; 

 embryo straight, cotyledons flat cordate, radicle next the hUum. — 

 DiSTEiB. 2 or 3 species, natives of Tropical Asia. 



1. A. augrusta, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. i. 485 ; Roxb. Sort. Beng. 50 ; Fl. 

 Iitd. iii. 156; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 183 ; BeddameFlor. Sylvat. Anal. 

 Gen. t. 5 ; W. & A. Prodr. i. 65 ; Wall. Cat. 1142. A. angulata. Lam. Ill, 

 636. A. Wheeleri, Retz. Obs. v. 27 ; Willd. Sp. PL iii. 1425. A. fastuosum 

 Gvertn. Fruct. i. 307, t. 64. 



Widely spread, native or cultivated, throughout the hotter parts of India from the 

 NoKTH West Pkovinoes to Sikkim, alt. 3000 ft. ; Khasia Mts. alt. 4000 ft., and Assam. 

 — ^DisTRiB. Java, Philippines, China. 



A shrub, branches downy. Leaves 4^6 by 4^5 in. repand-denticulate, base 3-7-nerved, 

 upper smaller, narrower, entire, glabrescent above, tomentose below ; petiole ^-1 in. 

 Stipules linear, deciduous as long as the petiole. Peduncle I4 in., axillary. Flowers 

 2 in. diam. Sepals 1 in., lanceolate, free nearly to the base. Petals scarcely exceeding 

 the sepals, imbricate in the bud, deciduous. Oc^sule 14 in., obpyramidal ultimately 

 glabrous, thrice as long as the persistent calyx. — The bark yields good fibre. 



14. GVAZirnXA, Plum. 



A tree. Leaves simple, tomentose. Flowers in axillary cymes. Sepals 5, con- 

 nate below the middle, at first spathaceous. Petals 5, concave at the base, 

 prolonged at the apex into 2 narrow strap-shaped processes. Stamens 10, 

 connate into a column which is tubular below, and consists above of 5 fertile, 

 3-antheriferous filaments opposite the petals, and 5 lanceolate staminodes 

 , opposite the sepals ; anthers 2-lobed, lobes divergent. Ovari/ sessile, 5-lobed, 

 6-celled ; styles more or less connate ; ovules numerous in each cell. 

 .Capmk oblong, woody, tubercled, resembling a mulberry. Seed, alba- 

 minous ; embryo curved, cotyledons leafy folded, radicle next the hilUm. — 

 DiSTEiB. A genus of 5 species, chiefly natives of Tropical America. 



1. G. tomentosa, Kunth ; DC. Prodr. i. 485 j Wight lU. t. 31; 

 .W. & A. Prod/r. i. 64 ; Thwaites Enum. 29 ; Beddome Fl. Sylvat. t. 107. 

 Buboma tomentosa, Spreng. Syst. iiL 385. G. ulmifolia, Wall. Cat. 1141 

 Diuroglossum rufescens, Turai. in Flora 1853, 735. 



'Generally distributed and frequently cultivated in the warmer parts of India at 

 .Cetlon, but perhaps only introduced. — Distkib. Java, Tropical America. 

 , A tree, herbaceous portions stellate-tomentose. Leaves 3-44 by 2 in., oblong-lanceo- 

 late, obliqaely cordate, acuminate, serrate, scabrid, or glabrescent above, pubescent 



