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large ; bracts multisect, laciniate or small and caducous. Calyx 5-fid, 

 or at length 5-partite. Petals 5, deciduous, with dilated tomentose 

 claws ; blade flat, glabrous. Staminal-coluran bearing outside many- 

 seriate, 1-antheriferous filaments up to the apex ; anthers erect, oblong- 

 linear, cells parallel : pollen globose, muricate. Staminodes 0. Ovary 

 sessile, 5-10-celled; ovules many in each cell; style stigmatose at the 

 apex, stellately 5-10-lobed. Capsule woody, dehiscing loculicidally. 

 Seeds ascending, produced above into awing ; albumen thin; cotyledons 

 folded or coutortuplicate ; radicle next the hilum. — Distrib. Species 

 about 7, all Indian. 



Invohicral bracts multisect. 



Peduncles few-flowered 1. E. Siccksii. 



Peduncles many-flowered. 



Sepals lanceolate ; style pubescent 2. E. Hoo/ccriana. 



Sepals linear-oblong ; style glabrous 3. E. CandoUci. 



Involucral bracts entire or toothed, not multisect 4. E. qinnquelocularis. 



1. Eriolsena Stocksii, Hook. f. ^- Thorns, in Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 370. 

 A tree or shrub (?) ; bark purplish ; young parts stellately pubescent. 

 Leaves 3-5 by 2|-4 in., deeply cordate, orbicular, shortly and bluntly 

 acuminate, irregularly crenate, 5-7-nerved, dotted above with stellate 

 hairs, finely pubescent beneath ; petioles 2-3 in. long, terete, clothed 

 with dense, stellate pubescence ; stipules linear-falcate, caducous. 

 Flowers l|-2 in. across, near the top of a long peduncle, in few- 

 flowered lax axillary racemose cymes ; peduncles reaching 6 in. long, 

 stellately pubescent : pedicels | in. long, grooved, pubescent ; involucral 

 bracts multisect, segments very numerous, linear or filiform, clothed 

 with dense stellate pubescence so as to appear mossy. Sepals lanceolate, 

 cuspidate, stellately pubescent outside, villous within, glandular at the 

 base inside. Petals obovate, cuneate. Ovary 8-10-Iobed, pubescent ; 

 style stout, long, pubescent. Fruit not seen. PI. B. I. v. 1, p. 370 ; 

 Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 24 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) 

 p. 129. 



Scarcely if at all distinct from E. Hool-erkma, the next species. There 

 are two good specimens of E. StocJcsii in Herb. Kew. ticketed " Konkan, 

 Stocks," but as there is no fruit on either, it is impossible to say 

 whether the species should be maintained as separate or united with 

 E. Hookeriana. 

 Konkan : fide Stoc/cs ! 



2, Eriolsena Hookeriana, Wir/ht Sf Am. Proch: p. 70. A small 

 tree. Leaves 4-5 in., as broad as long, roundish, cordate, acuminate, 

 irregularly crenate-dentate, dotted with small tufts of stellate hairs 

 above, finely pubescent beneath ; nerves prominent on the underside ; 

 petioles 1-22 i^* ^ong. Peduncles axillary, 3-6 in. long, stellately 

 pubescent when young, afterwards glabrous. Flowers 1^-2 in. across, 

 in many-flowered cymes towards the extremities of the branches ; invo- 

 lucral bracts shorter than the calyx, multisect, the segments linear. 

 Sepals linear-lanceolate, pubescent outside, stellately-hairy and glandular 

 at the base within. Petals obovate, claw densely pubescent within. 

 Style pubescent ; stigma 8-10-lobed. Capsules ovoid-oblong pointed, 

 10-valved, valves pubescent. Fl. B. L v. 1, p. 370 ; Grab. Cat, p. 20 ; 



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