n. o. steuculiacea;. 
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Causes intolerable itching, if touched or handled ; oil 
removes t lie hairs, and the itching, effectually (J. J. Wood’s 
Plants of Chutia Nagpur, p 85 ) 
180. S. seaphigera, Wall, h.f.b.i., 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, subcapitat.e. 
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. Ilelicteres isora, Linn., h.f.b.i., i. 365., 
Roxb. 506. 
Sans. : — Avartaui. 
Vern. : — Marosi, marorphali, jonka-phali, kapasi, bhendu 
(H.); Antamora (B.) ; Vurkatee (Sind.) ; Dhameenee (Dec.); 
Murad Sliing (Mardthi, ; Kawun (Bomb.); Aita (Gond) ; Valum- 
birikai (Tam.) ; Gubadarra (Tel.) 
Habitat: — Dry forests throughout Central and Western 
India, from Beharas far west as Jammu, and the Western Penin- 
sula. In the Thana Adawlat Garden (1881) there is a beautiful 
plaut six feet high. K.R.K. Ceylon low country. 
Arborescent or shrubby. Leaves 3 by 2{ in., bifariotis, 
obliquely cordate, roundish, obovate, often lobed, shortly acumi- 
nate, serrate, scabrous above, pubescent beneath ; petiole { in., 
as long as the linear subulate stipules. Peduncles 2.-3 together, 
i n a short axillary cyme. Bracteoles small, subulate. Flowers 
