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5. H. Papilio, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 218. 



A lofty tree, wood red, very hard, young shoots and inflorescence clothed 

 with golden stellate tomentum. Leaves lanceolate, shining above, silvery 

 beneath, blade 4-5, petiole f in. long. Panicles twice or three times the 

 length of petiole, ripe carpels with a broad oblique membranous wing, 2-3 

 times the length of carpel, veined with numerous strong parallel nerves. 



Common in the evergreen forests of the Tinnevelli ami Travancore Ghats at 3,000 ft. 

 and upwards. Fl. K. S. Praia, Ann. Gard. Calc. ix . 9, unites 4 and 5. 6. H. dubia. 

 Wall. ; Prain In Anc Gard. Calc. ix. t. 3. Khasi hills, 1. ovate, glabrous above, densely 

 silvery-lepidote beneath, ripe carpels lh in. long, compressed, cuneate-oblong, a 

 narrow thick wing on one side. Nearly allied to 11. littoralis. 



3. ERIOL^NA, DC. : Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 370. 



Deciduous trees or large shrubs with stellate pubescence, heartwood close- 

 grained. Leaves cordate toothed, with 5-9 basal nerves, stipules deciduous. 

 Peduncles axillary, 1-many-flowered. Fl. bisexual, buds supported b}' an 

 involucre of 3-5 bracteoles, generally laciuiate and early caducous, calyx deeply 

 5-cleft, rarely 4-cleft, segments hairy on both sides. Petals usually 5, some- 

 times 4, on thick and broad claws, tomentose inside. Filaments connate at 

 base into a short tube, anthers linear, 2-celled, cells parallel. Ovary tomen- 

 tose, 5-10-celled. style erect, stigmas 5-10, spreading. Capsule woody, 5-10- 

 celled, dehiscing loculicidally, dissepiments attached to the valves. Seeds 

 numerous, winged above. Species 7-8, Asiatic. 



A. Bracteoles laciniate, petals 5. 



1. E. Wallichii, DC, Mem. Mus. Paris x. 1823 t. 5: Gamble list 12. 



A tree, wood red-brown, hard, close grained. Young shoots, petioles and 

 under side of leaves clothed with dense soft greyish tomentum, stipules lanceo- 

 late, as a rule deeply laciniate. Fl. large, solitary "U axillary pedicels, 3-4 in. 

 long, subtended by 5 broad deeply-cut bracteoles. Calyx segments on both 

 sides densely tawny-woolly, 1.1 in. long, six le and stigma with long hairs. 



Onrlh forests, Sikkim. Fl. 11. S. 



2. E. Hookeriana, Wight et Arn. : Bedd. Manual, 35, t. v. ; Brandis, I". 

 Fl. 3d. Yern. Ha nil a a, Kol; Quagoli, South. 



A small tree, young shunts, petioles and under side of leaves clothed with 

 Bofi brown or tawny tomentum. Peduncles axillary many flowered, sub- 

 tended by pinnatisect bracteoles. Calyx segments j|-l in. Long, style hairy. 

 Capsule 1 in. long, sharply bent down, valves tubercled, not keeled. 



Common in the deciduous forests of the Satpuras, in Berar and in the Western 

 Peninsula. Chota Nagpore, probably also in Behar. Fl. Et. S., C. S. • Soselj allied and 

 perhaps not specifically distinct is 8. E. Stocksii, Hook. fil. & Thorns. ; wesl side of the 

 Peninsula, from the Aravalli hills (Griali, dhaula Gittla the Panch Mehals (Jehali) 

 to the Konkan. Under side of leaves grey or tawny-tomentose, peduncles I 8 fid., 

 teoles deeply lac in int.-. ~. i as to appear mossj . 



I. E. Candollei, Wall., PI. As. Rar. t. tit: Kurz, F. Fl. i. 118. Vera. 

 Iii'iini, Burm. 



A large tree, heartwood brick red, beautifully mottled, young shoots, petioles 

 and underside of leaves thinly tawny pubescent. PI. yellow, generally in 



terminal panicles, Iiractcles .", under each ll .\ver. deeply cut. style glabrOUS. 



Capsule 2 in. long, valves obtusely keeled, nol tuberculate. 



Bhutan. Burma, nol uncommon in decidi - forests. Etubj Mines district. To 



this possiblj belong specimens collected bj me, Nov. 1863, in fruit on the banks of the 

 el ii it i Gandak, Gorakhpur distrii t. Vern. />'u«.) 



5. E. quinquelocularis, Wight [c; t. EB82 \ficrochl ma under the pi 

 Bedd. PL Sylv. Manual t. 5. 

 A small tree, young sho its, and under side of leaves clothed with short but 



