Sterculia ceramica R.Br.

10097» Sterculia luzonioa Warb* Medlum sized tree
la more ©r less moist sandy earth near a mangrove-swamp not
distant from the beach; stem X foot thick, not straight«
mainly branched above the middle, 30 feet high; wood light,
White, moderately soft, odorless and tasteless; branched
erookedly rebranched, forming a flattish crown, the ultimate
ones embereot and relatively short; leaves horizontally
spreading, coriaceous, folded upon the upper slightly darker
green surface, Its midvein greenish white; twigs in subwfeorles,
as Is also the foliage| infloresoenee between the young
terminal leaves and the old whorl, ascendingly spreading*
yellowish green, quite rigid; perianths reddish on the Inner
side; ant hire yellow; fruits greenish yellow, pendulous,
the 4 parts radially spreading and the seed portion
each section contains 0 seeds;
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d the seed portion reflexed;
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