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Rar. 231. Kurz For. Fl. Bnrm. i. 13S, in part. 8. mollis, Wall. Cat. 
1131; R. Brown in Beun. PI. Jav. Rar. 231. S. Baton g h as, L. var. 
wtoMts, Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 358. 
Burraah ; Griffith No. 578 (Kew Dist.) ; Hclfer Nob. 579, 580 ; 
Falconer. Porak, King's Collector, No. 8360. 
Roxburgb left in the Calcutta Hurbarim an excellent coloured 
drawing of his S. angustifolia. In his Flora Indica he gives a very brief 
account of the species, drawn up from specimens flowering in the Botanic 
Garden and which he states came from Nepal. His description is too brief 
to be of any use: but his tiguro is so good that I have no hesitation in 
saying that no species of Sterculia collected since Roxburgh's time in 
any part of the outer Himalaya, or from the plain at its base, is in the 
least like this plant. I have little donbt that Roxburgh was deceived 
as to its origin by some changing of labels of the native gardeners at 
Calcutta (a sublimely inaccurate race !) ; and that the plant was really 
received, like so niauy others during the early years of the garden, from 
the Straits. Walltch, no doubt deceived by the alleged Himalayan 
origin of the plant, distributed (as No. 1133 of his list) specimens from 
the trees of it which were still iu his time cultivated in the Calcutta 
Garden under Roxburgh's name, while specimens collected in Burmah ho 
issued as No. 1131, under the name S. mollis, Wall. Pierre's figure 
above quoted does not agree very well with Roxburgh's, the panicles 
being by far too short and not nearly hairy enough. 
12. S. rubiginosa, Vent. Hort. Malmaison, ii. 91. A tree 20 to 
50 feet high : young branches rather thick, their apices deciduously ruf- 
ous-tomentosc ; the bark pale or brown, striate, glabrous. Leaves mem- 
branous, obovate-oblong, sometimes ovato-oblong, shortly and abruptly 
acuminate, entire ; narrowed to the acute, rounded or minutely cordate, 
3-nerved base : upper surface glabrous, or sparsely stellate-pubescent ; the 
lower stellate-pubescent, most of the hairs pale and minute but these 
on the midrib aud 7 to 10 pail's of spreading stout nerves larger and 
darker coloured : length 45 to 7*5 or rarely 12 in., breadth 2 to 3 in., 
rarely 4 in. ; petiole varying with age from '3 to 1*8 in , rufous toinen- 
tose as are the linear caducous "5 in. long stipules. Panicles solitary 
in the axils of the crowded young leaves, many-flowered, shorter than, 
or as long as the leaves, rufous-tomentose like the outer surfaces of 
the flowers ; flower-pedicels spreading, capillary. Floiver buds broadly 
ovate. Cahjx less than *5 in. long, widely campanulate, divided for half 
its length or more into 5 lanceolate spreading incurved lobes cohering 
by their tips, the lobes densely covered inside with white hispid ulons 
hairs. Mate flmuer ; statninal column longer than the tube or about as 
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