radicle inferior. DUtrib. A genua of about 18 species, confined to 
tropical Asia. 
Flowers G in. long ... ... ... 1. P, diversifolium. 
„ 2 in. long. 
Sepals shortly pubescent inside, 
capsule 3 to '1 in. long. 2. P. Blumeanuni. 
Sepals with silky hairs inside ; 
capsule 15 in. long, with scaly 
hairs ... ... ... 3. P. JacManum. 
,, less than 2 in. long ; capsule 2 to 
2 5 in., glabrous ... ... 4, P. aceroides. 
1. P. diversifolium, Blume, Bijdr. 88. A tree 60 to 100 feet 
high : young branches, petioles, under surfaces of leaves and outer 
surface of sepals and fruit covered with a layer of minute, tawny tomen- 
tum with many, more or less deciduous, rufous, stellate hairs on its sur- 
face. Leaves coriaceous, varying from obovate-oblong to elliptic-rotund ; 
the apex broad, blunt, or sub-truncate, suddenly contracted into a tri- 
angular point ; the edges entire or sinuous, rarely lobed ; the base always 
cordate or emargioate, 3 to 7-uerved and often oblique : upper surfaco 
shining, glabrous, except the tomentose midrib : main nerves 8 to 10 
pairs, straight, sub-erect, prominent on both, surfaces ; length 6 to 9 in., 
breadth 3*5 to 6 in., petiole 1 to 125 or even 2 in., stipules small linear, 
caducous. Flowers 6 to 7 in. long, buds narrowly cylindric, solitary, or 
in 3 to 4-flowered sub-sessile axillary cymes ; pedicels *2 in. long, each 
with a minute recurved lanceolate bracteole. Sepals coriaceous, slightly 
shorter than the petals, linear, blunt, adpressed-sericeous internally. 
Petals membranous, liuear, glabrescent. Staminal tube and gy nophore 
2 in. long \ the free part of the filaments sliglitly longer ; fertile anthers 
about JO, linear ; staminodos 5, pubescent. Ovary fusiform, tomentose, 
5-celied. Style less than 2 in. long, angled, pubescent ; stigma fusiform. 
Capsule woody, oblong, pointed, acutely 5-angled, suddenly constricted 
at the base, about 4 to 5 in. long and 1*5 to 2 in. in diam. Seeds flat- 
tened, 1*5 to 2 in. long. Mast, in Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. i. 367 ; Pierre 
Fl. For. Coch-Chine, t. 179; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, p. 192 ; Hassk. 
PI. Jav. Rar. 316 ; Korth, Nod. Kruik. Arch. L 312. P. aeerifolium, 
Zoll. et Mor. Syst. Verz. p. 27 (excl. syu. Willd.) 
Pernk, Malacca; common; at low elevations. Distrib. Java, 
Philippines, Cochin-China. 
The leaves on young shoots of this are often peltate and deeply 
lobed. 
2. P, Blum K A k cm, Korth. Ned. Kruik. Arch. ii. p. 311. A tree 
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