Sterculia ramosii Merr.

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12375. Sterculia blancpi Rolfe. 4uite large tree
in damp shale like soil of wooded ravines at 1750 feet on
the Bspana side of the mountain ridge; stem 2 feet thick,
nearly terete and straight} 36 feet high or higher, crooked-
ly branched at the top; buttressed at the bases wood soft,
dirty white» odorless and tasteless; bark thick, yellowish
gray, smoothish or lentioelled, reddish brown beneath the
epidermis; branches crooked, forming a flattish crown,
sparingly rebranched* the ultimate ones 1 inch thick and
upwardly curved* leaves aseending, folded upon the upper
much deeper green surface, veins yellowish white« coriaceous
or sub char tae eous; fruits at the end of the 1 Vs foot long
pendulous cinnamon tax brown pmdunele, 4 or &, divaricately
spreading, yellowish green or eomeshat tinged with red
(not unlike peach-rinds)5 Hagailanes, Aj
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