XIII. STERCULIACEiE. 



4. EBIOL^JNA, DC. 



Shrubs or trees, with cordate leaves and deciduous stipules. Flowers 

 on axillary few-flowered peduncles. Calyx deeply 5-cleft, with an involu- 

 cel (epicalyx) of 3-5, often laciniate bracts. Petals 5, with a broad, coria- 

 ceous, hairy claw. Stamens numerous, all fertile, monadelphous, in many 

 rows, the outer ones gradually shorter ; anthers linear-oblong, with par- 

 allel cells. Style one; stigma 10-lobed. Capsule woody, 5-10-celled, de- 

 hiscing loculicidally, the dissepiments attached to the valves. Seeds 

 numerous in each cell, terminated by a broad, oblong, or tapering wing. 



1. E. Hookeriana, W. & A. Prodr. 70 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. anal. gen. t. v. 



A shrub or small tree. Leaves cordate, shortly acuminate, toothed, 3 in. 

 broad, and about as long, petioles half the length of leaf ; stipules linear, 

 caducous. Young shoots, petioles, under side of leaves, inflorescence, bracts 

 and outside of calyx clothed with dense light-grey stellate tomentum; 

 upper side of leaves with scattered tufts of stellate hairs, or glabrate. 

 Flowers 3-5, peduncles as long as or longer than leaf. Calyx-segments lan- 

 ceolate, f-1 in. long. Bracts deeply cut into numerous linear segments. 

 Style hairy. Capsule 7-9-celled, ovoid, 1 in. long or nearly so, valves not 

 keeled, tubercled outside. 



South India. Behar. Common Satpura range. Guna (Gwalior). Fl. March, 

 April. Fruit autumn and cold season. 



A sp. of Eriolcena, with leaves 5-6 in. across ; petioles nearly as long as leaf, 

 I found (in leaf only) in the Panch Mehals in Jan. 1870. (Vern. Jehdli, bud- 

 jari-dhamin.) It resembles E. Stocksii, Hf. & Th. (from the Concan) ; but I am 

 inclined to think that the differences between E. Hookeriana, E. flavescens, 

 Garcke, and E. Stocksii, are not very great. 



In Nov. 1863 I found a tree on the Choti Gandak in Gorakhpur, vern. 

 Beem, with large cordate, dentate leaves 6 in. broad, petioles 2 in., and oblong 

 capsules, valves 8 villose, and obtusely keeled on the back, but not tubercled, 

 which may possibly belong to E. spectabilis, Wall., a tree in Nepal with fine, 

 close-grained wood ; and among the plants collected by B. Thompson in Oudh, 

 are young shoots of an Eriolama, buds clothed with stellate tomentum of long 

 soft white hairs, stipules lanceolate, laciniate, bracts ovate, laciniate to about the 

 middle, which may be referred to the same species. A tree of this genus from 

 Burma {Doani) has beautiful red wood, which polishes well, and is not heavy, 

 the cub. ft. weighing 47 lb. 



Order XIV. TILIACE.2E. 



Mostly trees or shrubs, with alternate simple leaves, and deciduous 

 stipules. Flowers regular, generally bisexual and pentamerous. Sepals 

 free or connate, valvate. Petals free. Stamens numerous, free or connate ; 

 anthers 2-celled. Ovary free, 2-10-celled ; ovules definite or indefinite ; 

 placentation axile. Fruit generally 2-10-celled. Seeds with or with- 

 out albumen. Gen. PI. i. 228 ; Boyle 111. 103, 104; Wight 111. i. 79, 82. 



Leaves 3-7-nerved at base; anthers bursting longitudinally . . 1. Grewia. 

 Leaves penniveined ; anthers opening by slits at the top . . 2. Eljsocarpus. 



To this family belong Berry a Ammonilla of Ceylon, distinguished by a 6- 

 winged capsule, which yields the Trincomalee wood ; the Lime-tree of Europe, 

 Tilia europcea, with wing-like bracts, and globose indehiscent 1-2-seeded fruit, 



