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XX. STEECULIACEiE 



[EviolcBna 



dense silvery or tawny pubescence. FL in large terminal panicleb, bracteoles 

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



Fi(.. 42.— Eriolaena cxuinquelocularis, Wight. FL, fr. \. 



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 visually 4. 



6. E. spectabilis, Planchon.— Syn. Walliclila spectabllis, DC. in M4m. 

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



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

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

 dentate bracteoles ^ in. below flower. Sepals 1 J 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 Eurma 4,500 

 ft.j on open exposed slopeb with Kyclia calyHna. Fl, April, May, 



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



ShrubSj rarely trees. Fl. bisexual. Calyx tubular, more or less equally 5-clef t. 

 Petals 5, clawed, usually zygomorphic. Stamina! column adnate to gynophore, 

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

 Pruit 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. Pruit spirally twisted. 



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



