Tab. 7192. 



HERITIERA maceophylla. 

 Native of the East Indies. 



Nat. Ord. Stebculiace^e. — Tribe SterculiEjE. 

 Genus Heritiera, Ait.; (Bentk. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 219.) 



Heritiera macrophylla, ; arborea, ramulis foliis subtus petiolisque argenteo- 

 lepidotis, foliis amplis longe petiolatis oblongis v. oblongo-lanceolatis 

 acuminatis penninerviis basi cuneatis v. rotundatis 3-nerviis paniculis 

 foliis brevioribus pubescentibus, calycis urceolato-campanulati 5-7-lobi 

 lobis acutis, fractibus oblique subglobosis rostratis, rostro compresso 

 uncinato. 



H. macrophylla, Wall, ex Voigt Sort. Suburb. Calcutt. (1845), 103 ; Kurz For. 

 Fl. Brit. Burm. vol. i. p. 141 ; in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. xlii. pt. ii. 

 p. 61 ; in Trim. Journ. Bot. N.S. vol. iii. (1874), p. 66, t. 141, f. 7 ; Pierre, 

 Flore Forest. Cochinch. t. 204. 



Trochetia P contracta, Wall. Cat. n. 1162. 



Heritiera macrophylla has been long known in cultivation 

 as the Looking-glass plant, under which name it has been 

 widely distributed from Kew, where it forms a conspicuous 

 feature in the Palm House, for its handsome foliage, bright 

 green above and opaquely silvery beneath, like the silver- 

 ing of the back surface of a mirror. It was, however, 

 assumed to be a variety of the common tropical Asiatic 

 littoral E. Uttoralis, Dryand, and as such it is included by 

 Dr. Masters, in the Flora of British India (vol. i. p. 363), as 

 a synonym, R. macrophylla, Hort., of that species. It had, 

 however, previously (in 1845) been recorded as a species 

 of Wallich's, by "Voigt, in his " Hortus Suburbanus Cal- 

 cuttensis," but without any description, which latter did 

 not appear till 1845, when Kurz gave a fresh account of it 

 in the " Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal," and 

 almost contemporaneously in the " Forest Flora of British 

 Burma,' ' both published after the citation of the plant in 

 the Flora of British India. For the synonym Trochetia ? 

 contracta, Wall., I am indebted to a note under if. Uttoralis 

 by Dr. King in the Journal of the Bengal Asiatic Society 

 (vol. lx. pi. ii. p. 80), where that author alludes to H. 

 macrophylla as very distinct from H. Uttoralis. 



September 1st, 1891. 



