366 xxvn. STERCULIACE^E. (Maxwell T. Masters.) [Helicteres. 



Bracteoles setaceous. Calyx bell-shaped, 5-fid ; lobes deltoid-lanceolate, pubescent. 

 Carpels 5, 1-1 io., oblong, beaked. Varies in amount of pubescence, and in shaggi- 

 ness of capsule. The Himalayan forms have subglabrous leaves and very shaggy 

 carpels. 



4. K. obtusa, Wall. Cat. 1184; leaves thickly stellate hairy above 

 pubescent beneath oblong obtuse entire base rounded, cymes spicate, 

 ripe carpels shaggy oblong obtuse. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beny. 1 ^73, 

 ii. 62. 



TAVOY, Gomez; MERGUI, Griffith; MOULMEIN, Loll; PEGU, M'Lelland; ANDAMAN 

 ISLDS., JfMrz. DISTRIB. China. 



Shrubby, herbaceous portions ferruginous. Leaves 2J-4 by 1 in., quite entire 

 3-nerved, petiole ^ in. Cymes not much exceeding the petiole ; pedicels with 3 minute 

 setaceous bracteoles beneath the flower. Flowcr-biids ovoid, flowers small, \ in. 

 Calyx cylindric campanulate. Ripe carpels scarcely 1 inch. 



5. K. glabriuscula, Wall. Cat. 11 80; leaves obliquely lanceolate 

 base cordate thinly stellate-hairy serrulate, ripe carpels short stellate-hairy. 

 ? H. spinulosa, Wall. Cat. 1847. 



AVA, at Prome, Wallich ; BIRMA, Griffith. 



Shrubby, diffuse ; branches very slender, virgate, purple, glabrescent. Leaves 4J-4 

 by 4~1 i in- 5 petiole $ in. ; stipules subulate, deciduous, as long as the petiole. Flou; /* 

 gpicate ; peduncles half the length of the leaf. Ripe carpels 4~f in., oblong, beaked, 

 stellate-hairy. Flowers not examined. 



(>. H. spicata, CM,r. in Wall. Cat. 1845, B. 1182; leaves stellate- 

 hairy above downy beneath oblong lanceolate acuminate, base obliquely 

 Bubcordate, cymes elongated spike-like, ripe carpels long shaggy. H. ve.-i ita, 

 Wall. Cat. 1844. H. oblon-a, Wall. Cat. 1183 partly. H. grewiaefolia, II W/. 

 Cat. 1443.. H. hirsuta?, 1 1., -I,. Ham. in Wall Cat. 2< 



From SIKKIM, ASSAM, and AVA, to PENANG. DISTRIB. Malayan Archipelago to 

 China (cult.?). 



Shrubby. Leaves 2-6 by 1-2 in., varying in breadth from ovate-oblong to lanceo- 

 late, unequally serrate; petiole |-| in. ; stipules M -t;u mus, as lout; as the petiole. 

 Peduncles shorter than the leaves, 3-flowered ; pedicels shorter than the flower. f'dl</x 

 nearly ^ in., bell-shaped, curved, distended ;it the ba.- (> , downy. JUpc carju'ls 1^-lf 

 in. ; stalks exserted from the persistent calyx, obkmg-lanceolAla, beaked, very shaggy. 

 Variable. The following form is sufficiently distinct to be made a separate va 



VAR. lanigera, pubescent, leaves thinly hairy with simple hairs above pubescent 

 and stellate hairy beneath coarsely and irregularly toothed, ripe carpels oblong very 

 densely shaggy. H. lanigera, Wall. Cat. 1846. 



The plant labelled in Wall. Cat. 2687 as H. longifolia and also as H. carthagenensis 

 is apparently a form of this species with narrow leaves ; but it is too imperfect to be 

 accurately determined. 



7. K. plebeja, Kurz in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 1870, ii. 67 ; shrubby, 

 scabrous, leaves ovate-lanceolate or ovate-oblong dentate, ripe carpels 

 stellate-tomentose and muricate. 



ARRACAN, Kurz. 



Leaves 3-5 in., mostly petioled, base rounded, slightly hispidulous or subglabrous 

 above, stellate-hispid and scabrous beneath, densely cano-tomentose when young. 

 C '//'/"' lew-flowered. Flowers small, yellowish. Calyx - in., stellate -hair vr- Petals 

 longer than the calyx (Kurz I.e.) 



7. FTEROSFERlttUBI, Schreb. 



Trees or shrubs, scaly or stellate-tomentose. Leaves usually bifarious, 

 leathery, oblique, simple or lobed, peiminerved. Peduncles 1-3 axillary 



