Eelioteres.] xxvii. stehculiace^. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 365 



6. HEXiXCTERES, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs, more or less stellate-pubescent. Leaves simple. Flowers 

 axillary, solitary or fascicled. Galt/x tubular, 5-fid, often irregular. Fetals 

 5, clawed, equal or unequal, the claws often with ear-shaped appendages. 

 Staminal column adnate to the gynophore, 5-toothed or lobed at the apex ; 

 anthers in groups at the top of the column between its teeth, 2-celled, cells 

 divergent, sometimes confluent. Ova/iy at the top of the column, 5-lobed, 

 5-ceUed; styles awl-shaped, more or less united, slightly thickened and 

 stigmatose at the tips ; ovules many in each cell. Follicles spirally twisted 

 or straight. /Seecfe tubercled ; albumen scanty;' cotyledons leafy, folded 

 round the radicle which is next the hilum, — Disteib. About 30 species, 

 natives of the tropics of both hemispheres, most abundant in America. 



Sect. I. Splrocarpaea. Bipe carpels spirally twisted. 



1. K. Xsora, L. ; DC. Prodr, i. 475 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 143 : W. & A. 

 Frodr. i. 60 ; Wall. Gal. 1179 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Brnnh. Fl.'i'i ; Thwaites Enum. 

 28; Beddome Flor. Sylvat. Anal. Gen. t. 5; Wight Ic. t. 180; Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. i. pt. 2, 169. H. chrysocalyx, Miq. in PI. Hohen. H. Roxburghii, 

 G. Dmi Gen. Syst. i. 507. — Rheede Hort. Mai. vi. t. 30. 



Dry forests throughout Cestral and Western Ixdia, from Betar, as far West as 

 Jamu, the Western Peninsula, and Ceylon. — Distrib. Java, North Australia. 



Arborescent or shrubby. Leaves 3 by 2^ in., bifarious, obliquely cordate, roundish 

 obovate, often lobed, shortly acuminate, serrate, scabrous above, pubescent beneath ; 

 petiole i in., as long as the linear subulate stipules. Peduncles 2-3 together, in a short 

 axillary cyme. Bracteoles small, subulate. Flowers Ij^ in. Ccdyx gibbous, laterally 

 compressed, somewhat 2-lipped. JPetals reflexed, red at first, fading to lead colour, very 

 unequal in size, 2 lower much the largest, claw winged. Staminodes 5 emarginate 

 scales. Stamens 10 ; anthers ovate. Fruit cylindrio, beaked, pubescent. 



Var. 1. tomentosa; under side of leaves tomentose, W. a; A. I.e.; Wall. Oat. 

 1179 F. — The Western and Central forms are mostly of this variety. 



Vae. 2. gldbreseens ; under side of leaves nearly glabrous, W. S A. I.e. ; Wall. Cat, 

 1179 C partly, E partly. — IMiquel's S. ehrysocalyx is a large-flowered form of this 

 variety, to which most of the Southern forms belong. 



Sect. II. Orthocarpaea. Ripe carpels straight, not spirally twisted. 



2. H. an^ustlfoUa, L. ; BO- Frodr. i. 476 ; leaves glabrous above 

 cano-tomentose beneath, ripe carpels stellate-pilose sometimes mossy. 

 Wall. Gat. 1180. H. lanceolata, DC. Frodr. i. 476. H. virgata. Wall. 

 Vol. 1181, Oudemansia integerrima, Miq. Fl. Jungh. i. 296 / F%. [nd. Bat. 

 i. pt. 2, 170. 0. integerrima var. ^ angustifolia, Hassh. Rort. Bog. i. 98 ; 

 Miq. I.e. 



Mekqui, Griffith! Mala(!ca. — Distrib. Java, Siam, China. 



Shrubby. Leaves 3 by J in. ; base tapering, 3-uerved, entire or minutely serrulate ; 



J)etiole i in. Cymes racemose-fasciculate ; peduncles 1 in. Calyx ^ in. Petals linear, 

 onger than the stamens, with two teeth at the base of the limb. Carpels 4 to | in., 

 oblong, obtuse, apioulate. — Varies in breadth of leaf and amount of pubescence. 



3. K. elongrata, Wall. Gat. 1845; leaves obliquely oblong-lanceolate 

 serrate thinly stellate hi.iry above pubescent and stellate-hairy beneath, 

 ripe carpels stellate-hairy t r m issy. 



AvA, at Tanng Dong; Birma, Griffith, Wallieh ; Eastern Bengal, Sikkim, alt. 

 1000 ft., /. D. S— Distrib. Yunan. 



A diffuse, straggling shrub ; branches very slender, stellate hairy. Leaves 3 by 1 J in. • 

 petiole J-J in. Cymes elongate, terminal, nearly as long as the leaves, many-flowered. 



