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Hdicteres.] xxvii. sterculiace^. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 365 



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6. KEZiXCTERES, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs, more or less stellate-pubescent. Leaves simple. Flowers 

 ^illary, solitary or fascicled. Cali/x tubular, 5-fid, often irregular. Petals 

 ^ clawed, equal or unequal, the claws often with ear-shaped appendages. 

 ^^mnal column ^dnsite to the gynophore, 5-toothed orlobed at the apex; 

 anthers in groups at the top of the column between its teeth, 2-celled, cells 

 aivergent, sometimes continent. Ovary at the top of the column, 5-lobed, 

 5-celled; styles awl-shaped, more or less unitedj slightly thickened and 

 stigmatose at the tips ; ovules many in each cell. Follicles spirally twisted 

 or straio;ht, JSeeds tubercled ; albumen scanty ; cotyledons leafy, folded 

 round the radicle which is next the hilum.— Distrib. About 30 species, 

 liatives of the tropics of both hemispheres, most abundant in America. 



bECT. I. Spirocarpaea. Ripe^carpels spirally twisted. 



-1. H. Zsora, Z. ; DC. Prodr. i. 475 ; Roxh Fl. hid, iii. 143 : W, & A. 

 ^odr. 1. 60 ■ Wall Gat. 1 1 79 ; Dalz. d: Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 22 ; Thwaites En urn. 

 ^ iJieddome Flor. Sylvat Anal. Gen. t. 5; Wight Ic. t, 180: Miq. Fl. hid. 

 f<ii.i, pt. 2, 169. H. chrvsocalyx, Miq. in PI. Hohen. H. Roxburghii, 

 \r^^ ^^^' ^^^^' ^- ^^'^—liheede H(yrU Mai. vl t. 30. 



1^ forests throughout Central and Western India, from Behar, as far West as 

 amu the Western Peninsula, and Ceylon.— Distrib. Java, North Australia, 

 i^^'^scent or shrubby. Leaver 3 by 2^ in., bifarious, obliquely corJate, roundish 

 Dpt'^r^i ^^"^^ lohed, shortly acuminate, serrate, scabrous above, pubescent beneath ; 

 P«"ole \ in., as long as the linear subulate stipnles. Peduncles 2-3 together, in a short 

 ftnm '^ ^7,"^e. BracteoUs small, subulate. Flowers 1^ in. Calyx gibbous, laterally 

 wnpressed, somewhat 2-lipped. Petab reflexed. red at first, fading to lead colour, very 

 Zc&] cS ^'^^' ^ ^^^^^ "^"^^ *^® largest, claw winged. Staminodes 5 emarginate 



J?8. Stamens 10; anthers ovate. Fruit cylindric, beaked, pubescent. 

 IIT^TT ^ ' r^^^^^^^^^ p under side of leaves tomentose, W. & A. Z.c; Wall Cat. 



V ^'■~"Th® Western and Central forms are mostly of this varietv. 

 117(^P S^'^^e-^cens ; under side of leaves nearly glabrous, IT. £ A. I.e.; Wall Cat. 

 y'./" partly, E partly.— Miquel's H. chrysocalyx is a large-flowered form of this 



"ety, to which moat of the Southern forms belong. 



Sect. IL Opthocarpaea. Pipe carpels straight, not spirally twisted. 



2. R. 



angrustifolia 



leaves glabrous above 

 ose sometimes mossy. 



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C«r,f5- 1180. H. lanceolata, i>C. Pro(fr. i. 476. H. virgata TTa//. 

 J i 1181. Oudemansia integerrima, Miq. Fl. Jungh. i. 296 ; Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 ^ 2, 170. 0. integerrima yar. /3 angustifolia, Hassk. Hort. Bog. i. 98 ; 



fcv'' ^'■J^^ '• Malacca.— Distrib. Java, Siam, China. 

 DetinlliV- ^^ves 3 by i in.; base tapering, 3-nerveJ, entire or minutely serrnlate ; 

 kneer .r"- , ^■^"'«« racemose-fasciculate ; peduncles 1 in. Calyx \ in. P«<afo linear, 

 oblono. , *^^ sta-nens, with U-o teeth at the base of the limb. Carpels \ to | m., 

 «5. Obtuse, apiculate.— Varies in breadth of leaf and amount of pubescence. 



8eL?Vu?**?*&**a» ^f^ll' Cat. 1845 ; leaves obliquely oblong-lanceolate 

 rin/„ "^J'^^y stellate ht iry above pubescent and stellate-hairy beneath, 

 "Pe carpels stellate-hairy ,t m .ssy. 



1000 J J n*""^ ^o»S ; B.R.MA, Orijlth, WaUich ; Eastern Bengal, Sikkim, alt. 



A aim, ■ ■^""l^i'^TRiB. Yunan. . V • r ov ,i- 



petioiri ?'-'^'*SRHng shrub ; branches very slender, stellate hairy. Leaves 3 by 1 J ,n ; 

 "'e i-4 in, ^y^^^^ elongate, terminal, nearly as long as the leaves, many-flowered. 



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