142 : STERCULIACER. [ Helicteres. 
HELICTERES, L. 
Bractlets small, or remote from the calyx. Calyx tubular, 
5-cleft at the top, often ‘inscanl and oblique. Petals 5, equal, or 
the 2 upper ones larger, clawed. Staminal column adnate to the 
gynophore, elongate, truncate at the top or more frequently bearing 
5 teeth or lobules with 1 or 2 filamented anthers between them ; 
anther-cells often Boohilibent into one. Ovary sessile or nearly so 
on the summit of the staminal column, 5-celled, with several ovules 
in each cell ; styles 5, more or less connate. ‘Capsule consisting of 
5 straight or spirally twisted carpels opening along their inner 
edge. Albumen scanty.—Shrubs, rarely trees, with simple leaves 
often oo Flowers axillary, solitary, fascicled, or race- 
mose 
*% Carpels spirally twisted ; leaves unequally serrate . . H. Isora. 
* * Carpels straight or nearly so. 
© Calyx about 4-6 lin. long or longer. Leaves unequally 
ed. 
+ Calyx-tube terete. 
Calyx laxly stellate, woolly. = viscid . = ‘ : - .« M..viscida. 
Calyx shortly scurfy tomen: . H. hirsuta, 
Tt Calta 5. -gono us, woolly tomentose, the 
obsoletely and remotely repand . A, lanata. 
© ) Calyx oly 2 oe 8 long. 
y cohering, forming a a villous- 
ben moter piculate, or blunt capsul 
te rey tomentose ; leaboe sprinkled above with stellate ae 
r ac obtu 
Stems glabrescent, leaves glabrous above, actyninate i. lannaatata: 
X X Carpels loosely wget with the points all free, 
rtly hairy ec 
stokes in short po racemes - . plebeja. 
in elongate slender racemes = usually m much longer than the 
leaves . H. elongata. 
Ly bs, + summit, a linear abruptly toothed claw of 
= length ¢ the a dteelf + anthers 10, on short filaments, 
a =. in ‘pairs with the linear staminodes round the ovary ; 
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