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- Pterospermum.} STERCULIACE i. 275 
T ‘“‘Sundri” whence me Sundribuns take their name. 
The on is frequently ma hat H. littoralis also occurs on 
the Bengal coast. This wali is not the case; at all events 
able to find it i it 
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H, littoralis are smooth, winged on the outer, keeled on the inner 
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on the inside ana less prominently winged on the outer side than 
those of H. littorulis are. 
107. Helicteres Linn, 
Trees or shrubs; leaves simple, pubescence stellate. Flowers 
axillary, solitary or fascicled. Calyx tubular, often irregular, 
ent Petal 
between the teeth. Ovary at the top of the column 5-lo 
5-locular; styles subulate, more or less united, slightly chicksinad 
at the stigmatic tips; ovules in each cell numerous. Fruit of 
straight or spirally twisted follicles. Seeds tubercled ; albumen 
Scanty; embryo with foliaceous cotyledons. 
Ripe carpels spirally twisted See 
Ripe carpels not twisted .........:.....+++. ee ak 
206. Heticreres Isora Linn,; F. I. iii. 143; F. B. 1.1. 365; 
E. D, H. 92. 
General throughout our area. 
A shrub. Beng. Atmora; Kol. Sakomsang; Hind. 
Bhendu, maraphali. 
207. Henrcreres sprcata Colebr.; F. B. I. i. 366. 
Chittagon 
A shrub. 
408. Pterospermum Schreb. 
Trees or shrubs; leaves leathery, oblique below, penninerved, 
simple or lobed, usually 2-farious ; tome ntum stellate or sometimes 
lepidote. Flowers axillary and terminal, usually showy, solitary 
or 2-3 together, bracteoles entire or laciniate, persistent or de- 
ciduous. Calyz of 5 more or less connate sepals. | Petals 5, large, 
deciduous with the calyx. Stamens unt united in a short column, 
