high ; young branches thick, rough, rather pate, gtabrons. Leaves 
thinly coriaceons, roundish or reniform, usuall) 7- palmately 3 to 5-lobed, 
the lobes triangular, acuminate ; base deeply cordate, 5 to 7 -nerved ; 
both surfaces pulverulent-pubescent when young, glabrous when adult 5 
length 4"5 to 9 in., breadth 5 to 12 in. ; petiole 3*5 to 8 in., puberulous; 
stipules lanceolate, caducoas. Flowers in axillary panicles or racemes 
from the axils of last year's fallen leaves, 25 to 4 in. long, densely 
covered, as is the exterior of the flowers, witb coral-red, scaly tomcntum. 
Calyx '75 in. long, funnel-shaped, curved, the mouth with 5 acute short 
triangular teeth, puberulous internally, villous at the base. Staminal 
column as long as, or longer than the calyx, slightly flattened, minutely 
fuifuraceous-pubescent : anthers 20 to 25, sessile at the apex of the 
column, oblong, closely surrounding the 5 flask- shaped ovaries ; styles 5, 
short, recurved : stigmas acute. Follicles 2 to 3 in. long, membranous, 
glabrous, veined, stipitate, open from an early age and hearing on their 
edges usually 2 smooth oval seeds, Roxb. Cor. PI. i. 26, t. 25 ; Fl. Ind. 
iii. 14(5 ; Mast, in Hook. fil. FL Br. Ind. i. 359 ; Pierre Fl. Forest. 
Coch-Chine, t. 199; Knrz For. Fl. Burm. i. 138 ; Brand. For. Flora 
N. W. Ind. 34; Wall. Cat. 1119; Hook. Io. PL 143 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 
Bomb. Fl. 23; W. & A- Prodr i. 63. Firmiana colorata. Br. in Benn. 
PL Jav. Rar. 235; Thwaites Enum. 29. Erythropsis Boxburgkiana, 
Scott. & EndL Melet. Bot. 33. 
Andamans ; Kurz, Prain. Distrib. India, Ceylon. 
16. S. fulgens, Wall. Cat. 1135. A tree 30 to 70 feet high ; 
young branches rather thick, with smooth dark bark, at first pubescent, 
ultimately quite glabrous. Leaves large and with long petiole9, thinly 
coriaceous, rotund with 5 shallow acuminate lobes, the base cordate : 
upper surface glabrous, harsh to the touch : lower densely and minutely 
stellate-pubescent, palmately 7-nerved, the nerves prominent beneath ; 
length and breadth 15 to 18 in. ; petiole 15 to 20 in., sulcate, minutely 
puberulous. Racemes or panicles 3 to 4 in. long, from the axils of last 
year's leaves, densely covered with orange or golden-yellowish scurfy 
tornentum as are the outer surfaces of the flowers. Oahjx 125 in. long, 
funnel-shaped, slightly curved, the mouth with 5 short triangular teeth; 
internally minutely velvetty-puberulous with a ring of long matted 
hair near the base. Staminal tube "5 in., longer than the calyx, 5-angled, 
sulcate, minutely tomentose ; anthers 20, sessile, oblong, 1-celled, em- 
bracing the 5 flask-shaped ovaries ; styles short, reflexed : stigmas acute. 
Follicles unknown. Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 360; Kurz For. 
FL linrm. i. 139: Journ. As. Soc. Beng. pt. 2, 1874, p. U7; Wall. Cat, 
1135 ; Firmiana colorata var. 0, Br. in Benn. PL Jav. Rar. 235 ; Miq. 
FL Ind. Bat., i. pt. 2, 178. 
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