Sloanea
(named in honour of Sir Hans Sloane, born in Ireland in 1660, President of the Royal Society, founder of the British Museum and the Chelsea Botanic Garden; he died in 1753). ORD. Tiliaceae. A genus comprising about thirty species of stove, tropical American trees. Flowers racemose, panicled, or fascicled, axillary or terminal, rarely solitary; sepals or calyx lobes four or five, valvate, rarely coalescing; petals absent, or very rarely one to four, sepaloid; stamens numerous. Leaves alternate or sub-opposite, entire or toothed, penninerved. The two species introduced are fine trees, with large leaves. A compost of loam and peat is most suitable. Propagated by cuttings of ripened wood, inserted in sand, under a glass, in heat. S. dentata (toothed). fl. white, large. August to November. l. ovate, acute, bluntly toothed; stipules cordate-triangular, serrated. h. 50ft. 1752. S. sinemariensis (Sinemaria). fl. white, small; racemes axillary. July and August. l. roundish-ovate, entire, 1ft. long; stipules long, acuminated, deciduous. h. 50ft. 1820.