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2. S. ORNATA, Wall, in Herb. Calcutta. A tree 20 to 30 feet high : 
young branches thick, glabrous, pale, the leaf -cicatrices very large, the 
apices deciduously pilose, coccinoous drying into brown. Leaves thickly 
membranous, reniform, more or less deeply divided into 5 or 7 acumi- 
nate lobes, the sinuses between the lobes wide, the base deeply cordate ; 
upper surface minutely strigose, often stellate, minutely pitted ; lower 
surface yellowish-brown, minutely and uniformly tawny- torn en fcoso, 
minutely glandnlar-dotted under the hair; the 5 to 7 radiating main 
nerves and the ascending secondary nerves bold and distinct; length 
about 12 in,, breadth about 15 in. ; petiole 15 to 18 in. long, thickened 
at the base, minutely tonientose. Panicles from the axils of the pre- 
vious year's leaves, solitary, 8 to 15 in. long, shortly branched, many- 
flowered, pulverulent reddish -tonientose. Calyx ochre-coloured with 
red fundus, veined, widely campaziulate, sub-rotate, with 5 ovate acnto 
spreading lobes longer than the tube,stellatc-pubescent externally, pubern- 
lous internally; "75, in. in diam. Male Jloicer ; gynophore about as long 
as thctubo, curved, sparsely glandular-hairy, bearing at its apex 10 small 
anthers with thick connective. Female Jlotver ; gynophore thickened 
above, densely tawny-tomentose as are the conjoined ovaries and curved 
style ; the ovaries with a ring of about 10 sessile anthers at tlieir base ; 
stigma discoid, rugulose, o-lobed. Follicles about 5, sessile, coriaceous, 
narrowly oblong, very shortly beaked, brilliant orange scarlet when ripe, 
outside glabrescent, inside densely coccineous-pilose ; length 4 in,, 
breadth T25 in. Seeds about 6, oval, smooth. Wall, in Voigt Hort. 
Gale. Suburb. 105 {name only) ; Kurz Journ. As. Soc. Bong. Vol. xlii. pt. 
2, p. 258; Vol. xliii. pt. 2, p. 116; For. PI. Burm. i, 136. Stercidia 
armata. Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 357, in part. Pierre Fl. 
Forest. Coch-Chine, t. 185, fig. C. 
Burmah ; Wallich, Brandis, Kurz. Andaman^, Kurz. 
I include this species because, although the evidence of its having 
been collected in the Andamans is not very good, I think it extremely 
likely that it doeB occur there, and that good nnmistakeable specimens 
will soon be forthcoming. The species in many respects resembles 8. 
villosa, with which it appears to have often been confused. The distinc- 
tive marks to separate it from S. villosa are that the leaves are minutely 
dotted and pitted ; that the apices of the yonng branches have red hairs 
(becoming brown on drying) ; that after the hairs have fallen the young 
branches have pale polished bark with very large leaf-cicatrices and 
some warts, but no sub-persistent stipules ; that the flowers are larger 
( 75 in. in diam. as against "4 in) ; that, the staminal column and gyno- 
phore are hairy ; that the follicles are larger and paler ; and that the 
whole of their inner surface is densely hispid-pilose. 
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