Pterospermum.] STERCULLICEAE. 107 



adhering to each margin of the open follicle, ovoid, smooth ; 

 embryo transverse, radicle inferior. 



FIRMIANA COLORATA, K. Br. Sterculio, colorata, Roxb. Cor. PI. 

 i. t. 25 ; F. B. I. i. 359 ; W. & A. 63. 



A moderate-sized deciduous tree with conspicuous scarlet 



flowers, palmately lobed leaves and papery follicles. 



N. Circars in Vizagapatam and Godavari ; Deccan forests, 



here and there ; W. Ghats forests from S. Canara to Travan- 



core, but not common. 



Wood soft and useless. Vern. Hind. Bodula ; Tel. Karaka ; 



Mar. Khowsey ; Hal. Malam paratthi. 



5. Helicteres, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs, more or less stellately pubescent. Leaves entire 

 or serrate. Flowers axillary solitary or fascicled. Calyx tubu- 

 lar, 5-toothed at the apex, teeth often unequal. Petals 5, equal or 

 unequal, with long sometimes divided claws, usually zygomorphic. 

 Staminal column elongated, adnate to the gynophore, 5-toothed 

 or -lobed ; anthers 5-40, in groups at the top of the column between 

 the teeth ; cells divergent superposed sometimes confluent. Ovary 

 5 -lobed, 5-celled, at the top of the column ; ovules many in each 

 cell ; styles 5, subulate, more or less united. Follicles spirally 

 twisted or straight. Seeds tubercled ; albumen scanty ; cotyledons 

 folded round the radicle. 



HELICTERES ISORA, Linn. ; F. B. I. i. 365 ; W. & A. 60 ; 

 Wt. Ic. t. 180. 



A large shrub with obovate obliquely cordate serrate leaves, 



scabrous above, pubescent beneath ; flowers red, fading to 



lead colour, T5 in. across, followed by spirally twisted 



cylindric pubescent fruit. 



Forests in all Districts, common in undergrowth. 



A useful shrub, giving small fuel of value and a strong but 



coarse fibre from its bark. 



Vern. Hind. Marorphal ; Ur. Ovla ; Tarn. Kaiva. 



6. Pterospermum, Schreb. 



Trees or shrubs, scaly or stellately tomentose. Leaves cori- 

 aceous, often oblique, penninerved. Flowers often very long, on 

 short axillary 1- or few-flowered peduncles ; bracteoles 3, entire 



