88 XX. STERCULIACE^E [Eriohena 



dense silvery or tawny pubescence. El. in large terminal panicles, bracteoles 

 at a distance from the flowers, minute, dentate, early deciduous. Sepals 1 in., 



Fig. 42. — Eriolsena cruinqueloeularis, Wight. Fl., fr. J. 



style hairy, capsule ovoid, 1 in. long, valves slightly tubercled, at times quite 

 smooth. 



Western Peninsula, chiefly on the west side, from Bombay southwards. Fl. July, 

 August. 



B. Bracteoles entire or nearly so, petals usually 4. 



6. E. spectabilis, Planchon. — Syn. Wallichia spectabilis, DC. in Mem. 

 Mus. Paris, x. (1823) t. 6. 



A small tree, young shoots and under side of leaves with short grey or tawny 

 pubescence. El. in large terminal panicles, involucre of 2-4 linear rarely 

 dentate bracteoles ^ in. below flower. Sepals 1^ in., as a rule 4, petals 4, stamens 

 40-50, style hairy below, glabrous above. Capsule 1| in. long. 



Nepal, Manipur, abundant in oak forests at 3,500 ft., Mogok in Upper Burma 4,500 

 ft., on open exposed slopes with Kijdia calycina. Fl. April, May. 



4. HELICTERES, Linn. ; El. Brit. Ind. i. 365. 



Shrubs, rarely trees. El. bisexual. Calyx tubular, more or less equally 5-cleft. 

 Petals 5, clawed, usually zygomorphic. Staminal column adnate to gynophore, 

 bearing 5 or 10 anthers. Ovary 5-lobed, 5-celled, several ovules in each cell. 

 Eruit carpels 5, opening along their inner edge, straight or spirally twisted. 

 Albumen scanty, cotyledons folded round the radicle. Species 40, tropics 

 of both hemispheres. 



A. Fruit spirally twisted. 



1. H. Isora, Linn.; Wight Ic. t. 180. Vern. Maror-phal, Kaposi, Hind. ; 



