232 XXII. STERCULrAC£.4i;. [Hdlcteres. 



■with stellate or branched tomentum. Leaves entire, serrate or obscurely 

 lobed. rjowcrs axillary, solitary or clustered. Bracteoles none or distant 

 from the calyx. Capsules usually tomentose, the clusters of tomentum often 

 forming long woolly processes. The appendages on the claws of the petals 

 appear to vary in different flowers of the same species. 



A considerable genus, dispersed over the tropical regions both of the New and the Old 

 Workb but chieOy Americati. Of the Australian species one is a common Asiatic one, the 

 two others endemic. The fi-equently uailociilar anthers closely connect the genus with Mai- 

 vacece. The other characters arc however more of Sterctdlaceie, and in some species the 

 anthers arc distinctly hiloeular. 



Calyx J in. long. Carpels spirally twisted 1, 77. hora. 



Calyx not above 2 lines long. Carpels straight. 



Leaves obtuse, entire • 2. 77. cana. 



Leaves toothed, mostly acute 3. 77. deniata. 



1. H. Isora, Linn.; DC. Prod. i. 475. A shrub or small tree, with a 

 rather rough stellate pubescence. Leaves on short petioles, broadly obovate 

 or orbicular, often oblique, irregularly toothed or the lower ones obscurely 

 3-lobed, mostly about 4 in. long, scabrous above, more or less tomentose 

 underneath or sprinkled with short stellate hairs. Pedicels short, usually 3 

 or 3 together. Calyx | in. long or ratlier longer, obliquely and unequally 

 5-toothed. Petals red, twice as long as the calyx, 2 of them much broader 

 than the 3 others. Anthers 10, on short filaments, alternating in pairs 

 T\ith the linear staminodia rotmd the ovary. Pruit about 1 in. long, on a 

 stalli of \\ to 2 in., slightly tomentose, the carpels spirally twisted. —Wight, 

 Ic. t. 180; Bot. Mag.t. 20G1. ^ 



N. Australia. Roper river, F. Mueller. Common in East India and tlie Archipelago. 



2.^ H. cana, Benlh. A shrub, densely clothed with a short, soft or velvety 

 whitish ^tomentum. Leaves on short petioles, oval or ovahoblong, obtuse, 

 I3 to 21 m. long, entire or very obscurely toothed towards the top. Flowers 

 small, in very short axillary sessile cymes or clusters. Calyx about 2 lines 

 long, with short acute teeth. Petals not twice as long, nearly equal or the 

 upper ones rather broader. Anthers 10, small, the filaments rather lon^, al- 



Luni- 

 ^ ^^^^ ^. .,._.,. _ . , ^- cly 



wo lly, the carpels straight.~^.V/>///o;v:7/i>/ c.7/^//;;;7schottrMeletem. 29, t. 5 ; 

 M. tntegnfohnyn, P. Muell. Trans. Phil. Soc. Yict. iii. 40. 



teniating in pairs with the shorter ovate, verv thin and transparent sU; 

 nodia. Pruit ovoid, under \ in. lono^, on a stalk of about 2 lines, loo 



river,* RMnHkr' ^'■""'"''''' ^"^ ""'^ "^""'^ Sound, A. Cunningham ; Upper Victoria 



3 H. dentata, K MutU. JInh. Apparently a small slu-ub or under- 

 shnih t!ie slent Cr brunches, infloiTscence, and' under bide of the leaves 

 whitish with a close stellate tomentnni. Loaves shortly petiolate, from orbi- 

 cular to ovate or oblong-elliptical, rather acute, rarely exceeding 1 in., more 

 or less toothed, greener and less tomentose above than nnderneath. Flowers 

 pmk or pui-ple, rather smalhr, more numerous, and in looser cymes than in 

 II cam Calyx rarely attaining 2 lines. Petals and stamens as in //. cana, 

 but the staminodia u: ueh shorter and broa<ler, and exceedingl y delicate. Fmit 

 small, witn straight carpels. ' 



H. Australia. Upper Victoiia river, F. Mueller. 



