Heliocarpus
(from helios, the sun, and karpos, a fruit; the valves of the capsule are elegantly ciliated around on all sides). ORD. Tiliaceae. A genus comprising four species of trees or shrubs, inhabiting tropical America. H. americanus, in all probability the only species yet introduced, is a stove evergreen shrub, thriving in sandy loam and fibry peat. Half-ripened cuttings will root, during summer, in sand, under a bell glass.
H. americanus (American). fl. purple, small, disposed in cymes. July. l. cordate, serrate, three-lobed, simple. h. 14ft. to 20ft. 1733.