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XX. STERCULIACE.E 



85 



in. long. Follicles !-">, on ^tout puliehCPut '>talk&, opening lone; bt^forp matui ity, ()-8 in. 

 long, membranous, cons])icn(»uslv veined, boat-sliaped. Seed 1 (laiely 2) attached to 

 the very base of the follicle. 28 S. campanulata, Wall ; Ivurz, F. Fl. i i:-^^>. Marta- 



FiG. 40. — Sterciilia colorata, Eoxb. Fl. fr. J* 



ban, eabtern blopes of the Pegu Yoma, Nicobars, Malay Peninsula, Cochincluna, Malay 

 Archipelago. A large deciduous tree. Leaves broadly ovate from a cordate base, 

 blade 4rS, petiole 2-5 in. Calyx campanulate, as a rule persistent in fruit. Follicles 

 3-6, 2-8 in. long, membranous, veined, saccate, ending in an oblong-lanceolate wing, 

 purple outside, yellowish-brown inside. Heed at the base of the follicle, generally one 

 only, 



2. HERITIERA, Alton; Fl. Brit Ind. i. S62. 



Evergreen trees. Leaves simple, coriaceous, quite entire, silver-scaly beneath. 

 El. small, unisexual, in axillary panicles. Calyx 4-5, sometimes 6-7 cleft. 

 Petals 0. ^ : Staminal column slender, bearing a ring of 4-5 2-celled antbers 

 at the top. . ? : Ovary of 5 nearly distinct carpels with 1 or 2 ovules, Eipe 

 carpels woody, indehiscent, keeled or winged. Cotyledons thick, albumen none. 

 Species 6 or 7, tropics of the old world and of Australia. 



A. Littoral species. 



1. H. littoralis, Dryander; Bedd, Manual t. 11, %. 6. Vern. Sunder, 

 Stcndrlj Beng. FinU kanaso, Burm. 



A middle-sized gregarious tree, heartwood dark red, very hard, medullary 

 rays i^eddish, intervening tissue dark red. Leaves elliptic-oblong from a 



