1891.] G. King — Ma terials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 69 
Rar. 231. Kurz For. FI. Burm. i. 138, in part. S. mollis, Wall. Cat. 
1131; R. Brown in Benn. PI. Jav. Rar. 231. 8. Balanghas, L. var. 
mollis, Mast, in Hook. fit. FI. Br. Ind. i. 358. 
Burraah ; Griffith No. 578 (Kew Dist.) ; Heifer Nos. 579, 580 ; 
Falconer. Perak, King’s Collector, No. 8360. 
Roxburgh left in the Calcutta Herbarim 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 figure 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 doubt 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 many others during the early years of the garden, from 
the Straits. Wallich, 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 in his time cultivated in the Calcutta 
Garden under Roxburgh’s name, while specimens collected in Burmahhe 
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. kubigtnosa, Vent. Hort. Malmaison, ii. 91. A tree 20 to 
50 feet high : young branches rather thick, their apices deciduously ruf- 
ous-tomentose ; the bark pale or brown, striate, glabrous. Leaves mem- 
branous, obovate-oblong, sometimes ovate-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 and 7 to 10 pairs of spreading stout nerves larger and 
darker coloured: length 4'5 to 7 5 or rarely 12 in., breadth 2 to 3 in., 
rarely 4 in. ; petiole varying with age from ’3 to 1'5 in., rufous tomen- 
tose as are the linear caducous ’5 in. long stipules. Panicles solitary 
in the axils of the crowded young leaves, f many-flowered, shorter than, 
or as long as the leaves, rnfous-tomentose like the outer sui-faces of 
the flowers ; flower-pedicels spreading, capillary. Flower buds broadly 
ovate. Calyx less than '5 in. long, widely campanulate, divided for half 
its length or more into 5 lanceolate spreading incurved lobes cohering 
ky their tips, the lobes densely covered inside with white hispidulous 
Fairs. Male flower ; staminal column longer than the tube or about as 
