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Apparently a variable plant. Dr. Masters (in Oliver's Flora of 
Trop. Africa, i. 220), describes the African specimens as having no 
stamens or stamiuodes alternating with the 5 phalanges of stamens. A 
specimen in the Calcutta Herbarium from Java has the under surface 
of the leaves softly hairy. 
5. Helictebes, Linn. 
Trees or shrubs, more or less stellate-pubescent. Leaves simple. 
Flowers axillary, solitary or fascicled. Cnlyj tubular, 5-fid, often irre- 
gular. Petals 5, clawed, equal or unequal, the claws often with ear- 
shaped appendages. Staminal column surrounding the gynophore, 5- 
toothed or lobed at the apex ; anthers at the top of the column, 2-celled. 
Five staminodes below the apex of the column. Ovary at the top of the 
column, 5-lobed, 5-celled j styles awl-shaped, more or less united, slight- 
ly thickened and stigmatoso at the tips ; ovules many in each cell. 
Follicles spirally twisted, or straight. Seeds tubercled ; albumen scanty ; 
cotyledons leafy, folded round the radicle which is next the hilum. — 
Distrib. About 30 species, natives of the tropics of both hemispheres. 
Fruit spirally twisted ... . ... 1. if. Isora. 
Fruit not twisted. 
Leaves ovate to oblong-lanceolate, 
oblique ; fruit more than 1 in. long ... 2. H. hirsuta. 
Leaves lanceolate or oblanceolate, not 
oblique: fruit less than 1 in. long ... 3. H. angustifalia. 
1. H. Isoha, Linn. Spec. 1366. A shrub or small tree; young 
branches minutely tomentose. Leaves ovate-rotund, oblique ; the apex 
rounded, abruptly acuminate ; the edges irregularly serrate-dentate, some- 
times lobed ; the base cordate or rounded, rarely acute, palmately 5- 
to 7-nerved j upper surface scabrous, minutely hispid ; lower pubescent 
or tomentose ; length 2 to 4 in., breadth 1*25 to 3 in. ; petiole "3 in. long, 
tomentose ; stipules linear, about as long as the petioles. Flowers 
axillary, solitary, or in few-flowered minutely braetoolate cymes, 1"5 in. 
long. Calyx narrowly carapanulate, laterally compressed, 2- lipped, 5- 
toothed, tomentose outside. Petals reflexed, the lower two much short- 
er and broader than the throe upper. Staminal column longer than the 
petals, curved, very narrowly cyliudric, bearing at its apex 10 to 12 
elongate-ovate stamens, and more internally 5 flat bifid staminodes. 
Ovary ovoid, sulcate, tomentose : styles slender, glabrous, united. 
Fruit cylindric, twisted, crowned by the persistent styles, pubescent ; 
1-5 in. long, '4 in. in diara. Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl, Ind. i. 305 ; Bl 
