104 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Heritiera. 



bearing in a ring beneath the apex 5-10 adnate anthers with 

 parallel cells. Carpels of ovary 5-6, subdistinct, alternating at 

 the base with pairs of staminodes ; ovules 1-2 in each carpel ; 

 styles short ; stigmas 5, thick. Ripe carpels woody, indehiscent, 

 beaked or samaroid. Seeds exalbuminous ; cotyledons thick, 

 radicle next the hilum. 



Leaves oblong, exceeding 5 in. long by 2 in. broad, main nerves 10 or 

 more pairs ; ripe carpels woody, keeled, with a thin narrow beak ; coast 



tree 1 . littoralis. 



Leaves lanceolate, less than 5 in. long by 2 in. broad, main nerves about 

 7 pairs ; ripe carpels samaroid, the wing long membranous ; tree of hill 

 forests 2. Papilio. 



1. HERITIERA LITTORALIS, Dryand. ; F. B. I. i. 363 ; W. & A. 63. 



W. Coast at Cochin and perhaps elsewhere, perhaps also on 



E. Coast in Southern Districts. 



Wood dark red, hard, heavy and tough. 



2. HERITIERA PAPILIO, Bedd. Fl. t. 218 ; F. B. I. i. 363. 



W. Ghats of Tinnevelly and Travancore extending north- 

 wards to Nilgiris, at 2,000 to 4,000 ft. 

 Wood red, very hard and tough, used in Tinnevelly for 

 building, cart poles, and agricultural implements. 



2. Pterygota, Endl. 



Trees. Leaves undivided. Flowers in panicles from the axils 

 of fallen leaves, 1-sexual or polygamous. Calyx deeply 5-partite. 

 Petals 0. Staminal column cylindric bearing 4-5 phalanges of 

 about 5 anthers each in $ flowers, and staminodes round the base 

 of the ovary in ? flowers. Ovary of 5 sessile carpels ; ovules 

 numerous ; styles short, recurved ; stigma 2-lobed. Fruit of 

 5 large, globose or obovoid, follicles, hard and woody, opening 

 when ripe only with 1 valve. Seeds about 40, furnished with an 

 oblong- obovate wing attached to the margin of the valve; albu- 

 men adhering to the cotyledons ; radicle small, superior. 



PTERYGOTA ALATA, R. Br, Sterculia alata, Roxb. Cor. PI. iii. t. 

 287 ; F. B. I. i. 360. 8. Haynii, Bedd. Fl. t. 230. 



A tall evergreen tree with ovate cordate large leaves, reddish- 

 brown flowers and a hard woody fruit 5 in. in diam. Wood 

 white, of good quality but little used. Vern. Mai. Kodathani, 

 Anathondi. 



