•34 FOEEST TREES. 



69 Sterculia alata, Roxb. 



Fig— Bot, Plates Lal-Bagh Collection. Bedd, FL 

 Sylv, t, 330, 

 , B.eiexen.ces.—Bedd. FL Sylv. ; Fl. of Brit. Ind, 



This fine tree is deciduous for a few days at 

 Bangalore, but in the sholas of the Western Ghats 

 it is probably evergreen. 



Leaves stout, alternate, long petiolate, cordate, 

 ovate, entire ; petiole 31 in., slightly thickened at the 

 point of junction wilih the blade, the latter 9x6 in. 

 on the average. 



The pedicels, flower buds and outer calyx, are 

 colored a beautiful golden-green, while the inner 

 face of the calyx is burnt carmine. The follicle 

 (fruit) is 4— -5. inches in diameter anji nearly round. 



The economic properties of this tree are unknown. 

 A solitary specimep in the Botanical Gardens has 

 attained, a height of 60;feet in 26 years. It flowered 

 for the fir,st time in April of the current year (1893) 

 and one ha]f-formed friiit is now visible near the 

 summit. 



70 Sterculia populifolia, Roxb. 



A small evergreen tree with smooth grgyish bark 

 and poplar leaves. Flowers like little cups, piarbled 

 cream and rose. Unless they appear un^er purely 

 vernacular names, the forest lists are strangely 

 deficient in Sterculias. 



71 sterculia acerifolia, Cunn. 



An Australian trpe cultivated in the Lal-Bagh. 

 Maple-leaved and evergreen. Flowers brigl^t 

 crimson, in drooping panicles- 



72 Heritiera littoralis, Dexakd. 



The looking-glass tree. So called on account of the 

 beautiful frosted appearance of the under side of the 

 leaf, on which, shadows are clearly reflected. A 



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