148 STERCULIACER. [ Eriolena. 
ERIOLENA, DC. 
Bractlets 8 to 5, either deeply cleft or lobed, or small and 
usually caducous. Calyx 5-cleft or finally 5-parted, valvate. Petals 
5, deciduous, with dilated tomentose claws. Staminal column short, 
bearing on the outside numerous linear- oblong anthers, the anther- 
= parallel. Staminodes none. Ovary sessile, 5-10-celled with 
ovules in each cell; style erect with as many spreading stig- 
mas as het Ree Capsule woody, opening loculicidally. 
winged above. Albumen thin.—Trees, with simple, often lobed 
leaves. Flowers usually yellow and showy, solitary, or several on 
ae lots cles. 
E. Candollei, 
tree (50-80 15—30+ 7—8) , shedding leaves in HS., the younger 
parts stellate-tomentose; bark grey, about an in. thick, shortly — 
and narrowly fissured ; cut dry, reddish; leaves ovate-cordate, on 
long tomentose or glabrescent petioles, 5-12 in. long, acuminate, 
unequally and bluntish crenate-toothed, while young on both sides 
tomentose, finally glabrous above ; stipules lanceolate, small, deci- 
duous; flowers large, yellow, on an in. long petiole, forming termi- 
nal and axillary somewhat tomentose racemes nearly as long or 
longer than the young leaves ; bractlets 3, oblong-linear, pectinate- 
toothed, or almost pinnatifid, ‘tomentose ; ‘petals about an in. long, 
the claw ineurved ; stigma 8-10-lobed ; capsules woody, ovate, acu- 
Ke about 2 in. long, roughish, 8-10-valved. 
—Not unfrequent in the dry and low forests, rarely in the mixed 
forests of eae and — a down to ‘Beube and Pegu.—Fl. H.S.; Fr. C.8.—l— 
ReMarxks.—Sapwood pale-brown, the heart-wood of a beautiful bick-red 
oon , tough and anetio used for gunsticks, paddles and rice-pounders. O = 
MELOCHIA, L. 
Sepals 5, connate at base. Petals as many, marcescent. Sta tamens 
5, opposite to the petals, at base united into a short tube; anthers 
suave ge 2-celled, the cells parallel. Ovary sessile, 5 5-celled, he 
vules in each cell; styles 5, free or connate at base. Caps 7 
localicidally 5-valved. Seeds albaminous.—Herbs or a eke 
rarely small trees, with simple leaves. Flowers small, clustered or 
ay panicled. 
1. M. velutina, Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 35, t. 5, £.3.; H.f. Ind. Fi. 
i. 874.—A small tree, 20 to 30 ft. high, or remaining shrubby, all 
tose petiole, acuminate, 
Wall.; Hf. Ind. Fl. i. 370.—Dwa-nee.—A 
