276 xxiv. STERCULiACE/ii. [Scaphiunt. 
The seed, immersed in water for a night, exudes a gum, containing 
Bassorin, to such an extent as to fill a small cup. This, mixed with 
sugar-candy, is eaten as a stomachic, and is very pleasant and 
wholesome. 
(3) S. longiflorum Ridl. Journ. Roy. .is. Soc. S. Br. 73, p. 143. 
Tree. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-rounded, shortly acuminate 
blunt, beneath sometimes glaucous; nerves strongly elevate, 
7 pairs, reticulations large, distinct beneath, 4^5 to 6 in. long, 
2 - 8 to 3 in. wide; petioles 2 to 2’i in. long. Panicles 6 in. long, 
sparingly red-tomentose compact, much-branched. Flowers numer¬ 
ous, glabrous; pedicels -i in. long. Calyx -3 in. long, tube cylindric 
*2 in. long, lobes ovate. Stamen-column longer densely woolly, 
stamens 8, backs woolly. Fruit unknown. Hab. Forests. Perak 
(Scortechini); Waterfall Hill (Wray); Gunong Bubu (Kunstler). 
Differs from S. affine Masters in the less woolly panicle, much longer flowers 
and long woolly stalk to the head of stamens; the leaves are smaller and 
more coriaceous. 
3. PTEROCYMBIUM, Benn. 
Trees. Leaves entire or lobed. Flowers unisexual. Calyx 
campanulate. Male, staminal column tall with 8 or 10 sessile 
anthers in a ring. Female, with abortive anthers, otherwise as in 
male, and 5, rarely 6 pistils on the tip of a column, sessile, distinct. 
Styles as many, slightly cohering. Stigmas recurved. Carpels 
4 to 6 foliaceous, boat-shaped, unequally bilobed, opening before 
they are ripe, on short pedicels on a gynophore as long as the 
enlarged persistent calyx. Seed at base 1. Species 2, Burma, 
Nicobars, Malaya. 
Leaves ovate acuminate sometimes lobed, cordate. 
Calyx campanulate . . . . . . (i) P. javanicum 
Leaves oblong-elliptic, base round not cordate. 
Calyx tubular . . . . . . (2) P. tubulatum 
(1) P. javanicum R. Br. Benn. PL Jav. Rar. 219, t. 45. 
Sterculia campanulata Wall., MSS. ; King, l.c. 76. 
Tree 50 to 70 ft. tall, 15 to 20 in. through, leafless in flower. 
Leaves ovate or oblong-ovate acute or acuminate, glabrous above 
pubescent or hairy on the nerves beneath or quite glabrous, base 
cordate or rounded, 4 to 7 in. long, 4 in. wide; petioles i'5 to 4‘2 in. 
long. Panicles 1 to 3 in. long in flower, enlarging very much in 
fruit. Calyx ‘5 in. long, glabrous, campanulate, lobes broad lanceo¬ 
late, '2 in. long, 1 in. wide, tube as long, coriaceous green, edges 
velvety. Stamen-column as long as the sepals; anthers linear 
curved. Follicles membranous 3 to 6 on a gynophore as long as 
the enlarged sepals, with pedicels pubescent, '5 in. long, boat-shaped, 
2 to 3 in. long, with 2 lobes, the lower broad, rounded, the upper 
