N. O. STERCULIACEJi. 205 



Causes intolerable itching, if touched or handled ; oil 

 removes the hairs, and the itching, effectually (J. J. Wood's 

 Plants of Chutia Nagpur, p 85 ) 



180. S. scaphigera, Wall, h.f.b.l, i. 361. 



Habitat : — Chittagong. 



A tall, deciduous, glabrous tree. Leaves glabrous, oblong- 

 lanceolate, 1-nerved, 12-14 by 6 in., coriaceous, base rounded. 

 Petiole 4-5 in., thickened at the top. Flowers panicled. Calyx 

 }in., pilose, campanulate, five-parted, lobes reflexed. Male 

 flowers : — -Stamens 10-15. Anthers 16-15, pilose. Ovary villous 

 on a long slender stalk, 2-celled, with a ring of sessile anthers 

 at the base. Style filiform ; Stigmas 2-lobed, subcapitate. 

 Follicles large, leafy, boat-shaped, dilated at the base, opening- 

 long before maturity, at first pilose, ultimately 6-8 by 3-4 in., 

 venose-reticulate, 1-2 seeded. Seeds globose, solitary, albumin- 

 ous ; cotyledons pale-green, radicle next the hilum. 



Part used : — The fruit. 



Use : — The fruit is used is China as a remedy for 

 dysentery. 



181. Helicteres isora, Linn,, h.f.b.l, i. 365., 

 Roxb. 506. 



Sans. : — Avartani. 



Vern. : — Marosi, marorphali, jonka-phali, kapasi, bhendu 

 (H.); Antamora (B.) ; Vurkatee (Sind.); Dhameenee (Dec); 

 Murad Shing (Marathij ; Kawun (Bomb.) ; Aita (Gond) ; Valum- 

 birikai (Tarn.) ; Gubadarra (Tel.) 



Habitat : — Dry forests throughout Central and Western 

 India, from Behar as far west as Jammu, and the Western Penin- 

 sula. In the Thana Adawlat Garden (1881) there is a beautiful 

 plant six feet high. K.R.K. Ceylon low country. 



Arborescent or shrubby. Leaves 3 by 2J in., bifarious, 

 obliquely cordate, roundish, obovate, often lobed, shortly acumi- 

 nate, 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 



