3. Pteeospebmum.] 21. STERCULIACEJS. [ 4. Ebiot^kjl. 



Fls. March-July. The capsules open at the time of flowering in the 

 following year. Evergreen. 



Rusty tomentose. L. 6-15", lobed entire or coarsely toothed. Fls., 

 regular or sub-regular. Sepals 4-5". Petals 3H4" linear-oblanceolate. 

 8t. 15, shorter ' than the staminodes, with filiform filaments and linear 

 anthers. 8taminodes 5, 3£-3£" long (including tube), pubescent, filiform 

 slightly clavate. Capsule rough. 



4. Eriolrcna, D,C. 



Trees or shrubs with paimately-nerved leaves and regu- 

 lar yellow flowers axillary or panicled, bracteolate. Calyx 

 spathaceous, 5-toothed or partite. St. tube short with many 

 anthers, cells parallel. Staminddes 0. Ovary sessile 5-10- 

 celled. Style with as many spreading stigmas. Ovules 

 many. Capsule woody looaiicidal. Seeds winged above. The 

 woody peduncles are often sharply flexed in fruit. 



Bracteoles pinnatisect large 1. HooJceriana. 



Bracteoles entire or lobed very small and caducous . 2. quinquelocularis* 



1. E. Hookeriana, W. 8f A. Bundun, Uidbulung, Hake- 

 homo, K. ; Guaguli, 8, ; Ponra, Oraon, 



A shrub or small tree with the new shoots densely, stel- 

 lately scaly, leaves white tomentose beneath 3-6''. Yellow 

 flowers l|-2* diam., 1-few on axillary or extra-axillary long 

 peduncles. Capsule tubercled, ovoid. 



Common on the hills in Singbhum, Manbhum, Hazaribagh and Pala- 

 mau. Also found in the Santal Parganahs ; Sirguja, Wood. 



Fls. April-June. Fr. Nov.'Jany. New leaves at time of flowering 



L, broadly cordate coarsely toothed shortly acuminate, base 7-9 

 nerved. Peduncles from the axils of deciduous bracts or of the young 

 leaves, rarely terminal, far exceeding the petioles at the time of floweinng, 

 2-4", either simple and 1-fid. or branched and few-fid. often with 1-2 or 

 a whorl of pectinate bracts about the middle. Bracteoles 3 laciniate J-| v . 

 Calyx ovoid crowned by the free tips of the valvate sepals in bud, tomen- 

 tose. 



The wood is strong and used for axe (hake) handles. The bark is 

 oaid to yield a good fibre. 



2. E. quinquelocularis, Wight. Bhawat, Yern. (Wood). 



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