1 0. STERCULIACEiE". 



[Helicleres* 



coDfluent into one. Ovary 5-lobed, 5-celled ; cells several ovuleti ; 

 styles b, subulate, moie or less concate. Carpels dehiscent, spirally 

 twisted, opening along their inner edge. Seeds many ; albumen scanty j 

 cotyledons folded round the radicle, 



H. Isora, Linn. ; Roxb. ¥i. Ind. IIT. 143 ; Fl. Br. I 1. 3t)5 ; Dalz. and 

 Gibs. Bomb. FL 22 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 33 ; Brandis For. Fl. 34. Kevani, 

 murads{ng,M. ; Kavanjiy he^n^u kowri, K. ; Murrori-ka-jhav, H. East 

 Indian Screw Tree. 



Bengal, S, and Central India, Western Peninsula and Ceylon.^ 

 Throughout the forests of the presidency ; abundant in many of the North 

 Kanara ghit forests. Yields a strong fibre. Fl. Aug.-Dec. Fr. ripe 

 March. Wood light grey, smooth, rather soft. Pores numerous, small, in 

 groups or lines. Medullary rays fine and very fiue, wavy. Yields a 

 valuable white fibre, made into cordage and eanvas for gunny-bags. 



5. PTEROSPERMUM, fcck-eb. 



Trees or shrubs, scaly or stellate tomentose. Leaves leathery- 

 oblique, simple or lobed. Bracteoles entire or laciniate, persistent or 

 caducous. iSepals and petals 5 each, deciduous. Staminal column 

 short, adnate to the gynophore. Filamented anthers in threes between 

 each pair of 5 ligulate staminodes ; cells parallel ; connective apiculate. 

 Ovary sessile on the top of the column, 5-celled ; cells each with several 

 ovules, style entire, stigma 5-furrowed. Capsule loculicidally 5-valved, 

 Seeds winged ; albumen thin or ; cotyledons wrinkled or folded^ 

 yadicle inferior. 



Bracteoles linear, entire, caducous,^ Flowers 1 '25 in. 



across ... ... ... 1. P. suherifoUum* 



Bracteoles laciniate or palmately lobed, caducous. 



Flowers very large, 5 in. across ... ... 2. P. acerifolium. 



Bracteoles piunatisect or deeply gashed, segments 



linear, persistent. Flowers 2 in. in diameter... 3. P. Keyneanum. 



I. P. suberifolium, Lam. ni. t. 576, f. II, ; Fl. Br. I. 1. 367 ; Dalz- 

 & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 24 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 34. Mudiucuda. 



W. Peninsula, Madras, Cuddapak, K Arcot, Godavery forests, Madura 

 and in Ceylon. It is stated to occur in the " Konkans *' by Nimmo — Grah. 

 Cat. Bo. Pi. 19, and is called MucJiucuda in the vernacular. Dalzell appa- 

 rently follows Graham, as he simply says " Concans " and quotes the name 

 MucJiucuda.'' — Bomb. Fl. 24. 1 do not know whether there are 

 authentic specimens from the Bombay Konkan collected by either Nimmo. 

 or Dalzell. In the first edition of th^' list of Bombay Trees, &c., I stated 

 that it was found in the evergreeD orests of the N. Kanara ghats. There 

 is a Pterospermum common on ' e southern ghats which I have not found 

 in flower and which might b- this species, but equally answers to the 

 description of P. Heyneanvm, as far as the leaves are concerned. I am 

 doubtful whether P. suberifolium, occurs at all in the Bombay Presidency 

 from the evidence I now have on the subject. 



2. p. acerifolium, Willd. ; DO. Prod. 1. 600 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 35;, 

 Bjandis For. Fl. 35. Karm-hara, hanak chamjja, harnikar^ Vern- 



