Eriolaena.] STERCULIACEAE, 109 



Forests of W. Ghats at low elevations, not common. 



A moderate-sized tree with horizontal branches. Wood 



reddish, soft. Vern. Tarn. Vatta polavu ; Mai. Pambaram. 



5. PTEROSPERMUM RUBIGINOSUM, Heyne ; F. B. I. i. 368 ; W. & 

 A. 68 ; Bedd. Fl. t. 106. 



Evergreen forests of the W. Ghats, up to 3,000 ft., common 

 in Wynaad, Anamalais and Tinnevelly, less so in Travancore. 

 A tall graceful tree, with a pink hard and close-grained 

 wood, good but little known. Vern. Tarn. Chittilei polavu ; 

 Mai. Malam thodali. 



6. PTEROSPERMUM SUBERIFOLIUM, Lam. ; F. B. I. i. 367 ; W. & 

 A. 68. 



Forests of N. Circars in Ganjam ; Deccan in Mysore, 

 Coimbatore, Cuddapah and N. Arcot, up to 3,000 feet; 

 Striharikota forest on the Nellore Coast. 

 A moderate-sized pretty tree with light red wood, little 

 used. Vern. Ur. Bailo ; Tel. Lolagu ; Tarn. Tada. 



7. Eriolaena, DC. 



Trees. Leaves cordate, crenate or serrate, stellately pubescent 

 or tomentose beneath. Flowers 1-many on axillary peduncles, 

 rather large ; bracteoles 3-5, multisect laciniate, sometimes small 

 and caducous. Calyx 5 -fid or 5 -partite. Petals 5, deciduous, 

 with dilated tomentose claws ; blade flat, glabrous. Staminal 

 column bearing many 1-anthered filaments ; anthers erect, cells 

 parallel. Staminodes 0. Ovary sessile, 5-10-celled ; cells many- 

 ovuled. Style with 5-10 stigmatic lobes at the apex. Capsule 

 woody, loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds ascending, winged above ; 

 albumen thin ; cotyledons folded or contortuplicate. 



Leaves membranous, very white beneath, buds oblong, constricted at 

 the middle : bracteoles very small, distant, multifid, caducous 



1. Lmliingtonii. 

 Leaves chartaceous or coriaceous ; buds ovoid : 



Bracteoles small, entire or lobed, caducous ; stigma 5-lobed ; capsule- 

 valves not tubercled , 2. quinquelocularis. 



Bracteoles large, much divided, persistent ; stigma 8-10-lobed ; cap- 

 sule-valves tubercled 3. Hookeriana. 



1. ERIOLAENA LUSHINGTONII, Dunn in Kew Bull. 1915, 88. 

 Nallamalai Hills of Kurnool (A. W, Lushington). 



