72 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 
high ; young branches thick, rough, rather pale, glabrous. Leaves 
thinly coriaceous, roundish or reniform, usually 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 ; 
length 4 5 to 9 in., breadth 5 to 12 in. ; petiole 3'5 to 8 in., pubernlous; 
stipules lanceolate, caducous. Flowers in axillary panicles or racemes 
from the axils of last year’s fallen leaves, 2 5 to 4 in. long, densely 
covered, as is the exterior of the flowers, with coral-red, scaly tomentum. 
Calyx - 75 in. long, funnel-shaped, curved, the mouth with 5 acute short 
triangular teeth, pubernlous internally, villous at the base. Staminal 
column as long as, or longer than the calyx, slightly flattened, minutely 
furfuraceous-pubesceut : 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 bearing on their 
edges usually 2 smooth oval seeds. Roxb. Cor. PI. i. 26, t. 25 ; FI. Ind. 
iii. 146 ; Mast, in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. i. 359 ; Pierre FI. Forest. 
Coch-Chine, t. 199; Kurz For. FI. Burin, i. 138; Brand. For. Flora 
N. w. Ind. 34; Wall. Cat. 11)9; Hook. Ic. PI. 143; Dalz. & Gibs. 
Bomb. FI. 23 ; W. & A Prodr. i. 63. Firm.iana colorata. Br. in Benn. 
PI. Jav. Rar. 235; Th waites Enum. 29. Frythropsis Boxburghiana, 
Scott. & Endl. Melet. Bot. 33. 
Andamans ; Kurz, Plain. 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 petioles, 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., silicate, minutely 
pubernlous. Racemes or panicles 3 to 4 in. long, from the axils of last 
year’s leaves, densely covered with orange or golden-yellowish scurfy 
tomentum as are the outer surfaces of the flowers. Calyx P25 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-augled, 
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. FI. Br. Ind. i. 360; Kurz For. 
FI. Burm. i. 139: Journ. As. Soc. Beng. pt. 2, 1874, p. 117; Wall. Cat, 
1135; Firmiana colorata var. ft, Br. in Bonn. PI. Jav. Rar. 235; Miq. 
FI. Ind. Bat., i. pt. 2, 178. 
