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' Shrubs with Alternate Stipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals Ununited. 



Eelicteres, Isora, large, thin spreading branches, bark grey, young 



Sast Indian Screw shoots covered with stellate hairs ; leaves alternate in 



Tree, 



Marorphali^ knpasi. 

 Sterculiace^. 

 F. B.I. i. 365. 

 The Plains. 



Helhania, 

 Eamiltoniana, 

 var. abutiloidcs, 

 Sterculiace^. 

 F. B. I. i. 373. 

 The Plains. 



Melhania futteypo- 

 rensis, 



SrEUCULIACBiE. 



F. B.I. i. 373. 



The Plains. 



T ret. Choa Saidan Shah 

 Douie). 



Helhania toxaentosa, 

 Sterculiace^. 

 F. B. I. i. 373. 

 The Plains. 



tv?o opposite rows on the branchlets, 3-6 by 2-4 ins., 

 round ovate, short pointed, rough above, velvety 

 beneath, stipules | in. long, linear ; flowers eolitary, or 

 two to four together in a cluster on a short stalk, 

 axillary, 1-2 ins. long, calyx tubular, almost two lip- 

 ped, crown woolly, petals 5, scarlet, 1 in. long, turned 

 back, two lower much the largest, staminal tube 5 

 toothed at the apex, styles 5 ; fruit 2 ins, long, con- 

 sisting of five spirally twisted woolly follicles on a 

 long stalk. From the twisted fruit it is considered 

 good for the twisting pain of colic, 



small, white felted, branches spreading, leaves 2-',> 

 ins. long, roundish ovate, deeply heart-shaped, apex 

 long, or short pointed unequally toothed, velvety on 

 both surfaces, leaf stalk 1 in., stipules bristly, equal in 

 length to the leaf stalk ; flowers yellow, 1-3 on axil- 

 lary and terminal stalks, twice the length of the leaf 

 stalks, bracteoles ovate-cordate, longer than the calyx, 

 edges turned over, sepals 5, lanceolate, tipped with a 

 sharp hard point, silky, petals 5, ovate with a broad 

 tip, much longer than the sepals, withering before 

 falling oiE, stamens 10, alternate ones fertile, united 

 below into a very short tube, styles 5, united below ; 

 capsule ovoid, shorter than the sepals, silky, 5-valved. 

 seeds many, oblong. 



velvety, leaves oblong, long pointed, a little larger, 

 bracteoles equal to the sepals, capsule a little shorter 

 than the sepals ; otherwise like the last species. 



wh te felted, leaves smaller, oblong lanceolate, thin- 

 ly hairy with stellate hairs above, flower stalks termi- 

 nal, about equal to the leaves, bracteoles shorter than 

 the sepals, edges not turned down, flowers much 

 smaller, seeds rough, angled ; otherwise like the last 

 species. 



