Descriptions of Malayan Plants. 22S 



ceolate, obtusely acuminate, abrupt at the base, entire, sniooth 

 on both sides. Petioles thickened at the ends. Racemes 

 lateral from among the leaves at the end of the branch, 

 drooping ; flowers alternate, pedicellate ; pedicels arti- 

 culate. Tube of the calyx somewhat ventricose, limb five- 

 parted, laciniae linear with revolute margins, twice as long 

 as the tube, spreading. Corolla none. Stamina 10, sessile 

 on the stipes of the germen. Ovarium stipitate on a column 

 of the length of the tube, subrotund, five-lobed, crowned 

 with a declinate style. Stigmata five, linear, revolute. Fruit 

 composed of five nearly equal crimson follicles, each of 

 which contains two or three seeds, which are enveloped in a 

 black pulpy arillus. 



Dr. Roxburgh's S. coccinea is a native of Sylhet, and 

 is said to have panicled flowers and 4-8 seeded follicles. 

 My plant agrees however so well in every other respect 

 that I cannot consider it to be really distinct, as those dif- 

 ferences may be merely the effect of a less favorable situation. 



STERCULIA ANGUSTIFOLIA. Roa:b. 



Foliis lanceolatis superne latioribus acuminatis subtus 

 villosis, racemis extra axillaribus nutantibus, laciniis caly- 

 cinis linearibus apice connexis. 



Unting Unting Besar. Malay, 



Native of Pulo Pinang. 



A tree. Branches covered with ferruginous wool. Leaves 

 at the summits of the branches, alternate, petiolate, lanceo- 

 late, broader above, acuminate, narrowing to the base and 

 there rounded, entire, smooth (in adult leaves) above, covered 

 beneath with stellate hairs. Petioles thickened at both ends, 

 ferruginously villous as well as the nerve of the leaf. Stipules 

 linear, acute, shorter than the petiole, deciduous. Racemes 

 {panicles ?) near the extremity of the branches lateral or 

 extra axillary, branched, lax, ferruginous. Bracts linear lan- 

 ceolate, acute. Calyx deeply 5-parted, tomentose, laciniae 



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