3.''0 xciv, btgnoniace.t:. 



PI. V, 2. p. 24, t. 144 (excluding capsules) ; Grab. Cat. p. 125. — Flowers : 

 Mar.-May. Yekn. JShdasinghi. 



KoNKAN : deciduous forests, Talhot; Vale of Nagofna river above the village, 

 Graham. Deccan : Pooiia, Woodrow ; Chattersinghi hill near Poona, Kaititk(ir\ ; 

 Khandala, Graham, Bhiva\ S. M. Country: Belgaum uortli, Ritchie, 1125!; Duddi, 

 Lmv ex Graham. Kanaka: K. Kanara, in deciduous forests, Tulhof. 



I have followed Talbot (who from his knowledge of the tree in the southern districts 

 of the Presidency, where it is tolerably abundant, is in a potition to form an accurate 

 judgment respecting it), in uniting U. Lawii, Seem., wiih U.falcafa. — Distrib. India 

 (W. Peninsula). 



The wood is hard and seasons well. It is used for building and agrit-ultural 

 purposes. 



4. RETEROPHRAGMA, DC. 



Trees. Leaves large, 1-pinnate. Flowers large, in terminal velvety- 

 tomeiitose panicles. Calyx ovoid, closed when young, irregularly 3-5- 

 lobed in flower. Corolla tubular-ventricose, rosy, white or yellow ; 

 lobes 5, rounded, subequal. Stamens 4, didynanious, included ; anthers 

 glabrous, the cells linear-oblong, diverging. Disk cusbiou-sba])ed. 

 Ovary sessile ; ovules numerous, many-seriate on each placenta ; style 

 long; stigma 2-lobed. Capsule elongate, cylindric or more or less 

 compressed, falcate or twisted, loculicidally 2-valved with a flat or 

 4-angled dissepiment. Seeds compressed, with a membranous wing at 

 each end. — Distrib. Species 5, of whicb 3 are Indian, the others 

 African. 



1. Heterophragma Roxburghii, DC. Prodr. v. 9 (1845) p. 210. 

 A large tree with dark-brov\n bark. Leaves simply pinnate, 1-2 ft. 

 long, tomentose when young, afterwards glabrous, usually crowded near 

 the ends of the branches ; leaflets 3-5 pairs and an odd one, 2-5 by 

 l|-2 in., elliptic-oblong, obtuse, sometimes with a short acuuiination, 

 entire or serrulate, often unequal-sided at the base ; petiolides of the 

 lateral leaflets 0-^ in. long. Flowers fragrant, in large, terminal, many- 

 flowered densely fulvous-tomentose panicles ; pedicels short, stout. 

 Calyx 2-| in. long, densely tomentose outside, clothed inside with long 

 silky tawny hairs, irregularly lobed s-g-'^^ay down, or on one side more 

 deeply divided, or obscurely 2-li])ped. Corolla reaching 2 in. long or 

 more, pale rose-colored or white, often with a pink ni;irgin ; tube 

 pubescent outside when young, usually becoming glabrous ; mouth of 

 the limb 2 in. across, the lobes about | in. long with crispt-d margins. 

 Filaments densely woolly at the very base, otherw ise glabrous. Capsules 

 straight, g in. tin'ck, 8-12 by 1^-2 in., linear, pointed, velvety when 

 young, afterwards glabrous ; dissepiment 4-winged, making the capsule 

 4-celled. Seeds 1^ by |-1 in. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 381 ; Dalz. & (ubs. 

 p. IGO ; Bedd. For. Man. in Flor. Svhat. p. dxix ; Talb. Trees, Bomb, 

 cd. 2, p. 257 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1809) p. 354 ; 

 Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, p. 227. Bifjnouia quadrilocidaris, Roxb. 

 Cor. PI. v. 2, p. 24, t. 145 ; Grah. Cat. p. 125.— Flowers : Feb.-Apr. 

 Vern. Vciras. 



Konkan: Elephanta, Graham; Mathcran, r«o^v ! ; near Chowk plateau, l^fatheran, 

 //. M. Birdwuod. IJeccan : near Poona, ]Vo,,dn,v:\; Chiits, Dalselll; Khaudesh, 

 Graham; JVlahableshwar near the Yenua Waterfall, Graham, Cookel; Kadakvnsla, 

 Cooke] S. M. Country: Padshapur jungles, Dr. jAi.sh ex Graham; Turkeri near 

 Belgaum, liidhir, 1122 !— Pisthib. India (Central Provinces, W. Peninsula). 



