XXTl. STEECULIACE.'E. 127 



with a broad keel or wing. Seeds 1 in. long. The fruit remains on 

 the tree for a considerable time. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 363; Grab. Cat. 

 p. 18 ; Dalz. & Gribs. p. 22 ; Bedd. For. Man. in Flor. Sylvat. p. Ixxv, 

 t. 11, fig. 6 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 1, p. 167 ; K. Schum. in Engl. & 

 Prantl, Pflanzenf. v. 3, part 6, p. 99, tig. 51 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 22; 

 Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, p. 223.— Flowers : July-Oct. Veun. 

 Sundri. 



The Looking-glass plant. Rare in tbe Eonibay Presidency. Found along the 

 banks of the Kala naddi and near the coast of N. Kanara and at Karwar, but nowhere 

 abundant (Talbot). Nimmo (ex Graham, 1. c.) giyes its habitat as S. Konkan, but 

 JDalzcll Sj Gihmn (Bombay Flora, p. 22) have failed to find it there. — Distrib. 

 Tropics of tlie Old World, near the coast. 



3. KLEINHOVIA, Linn. 



A tree. Leaves quite entire, 3-7-nerved. Flowers in large terminal 

 panicles ; bracts small or remote from the calyx. Sepals 5, at length 

 free, deciduous. Petals unequal, the upper with longer claws, margins 

 involute. Staminal-column elongate, adnate to the gynophore, dilated 

 above into a 5-fid bell-shaped cup, the divisions each with 3 anthers, 

 and alternate teeth without anthers ; anthers shortly stalked, cells 

 divaricate, distinct. Ovary inserted within the dilated apex of the 

 staminal-column, 5-lobed, 5-celled ; ovules 3-4 in each cell ; style 

 slender, at length divided. Capsule membranous, inflated, turbitiately 

 5-lobed, loculicidally 5-valved. Seeds 1 or 2 in each cell, globose, naked, 

 tubercled, exalbuminous ; cotyledons spirally twisted ; radicle next the 

 hilum. — DiSTKiB. One species, Asiatic. 



1. Kleinhovia Hospita, Linn. Sjy. PI ed. 2 (1763) p. 1365. A 

 middle-sized tree ; young shoots and panicles tomentose. Leaves 4-6 

 by 3-5 in., broadly ovate or suborbicular, cordate, acuminate, palmately 

 3-5-nerved, glabrous on both surfaces ; petioles 1-4 in, long, terete ; 

 stipules linear, ^ in. long. Flowers rosy, in large terminal panicles; 

 pedicels jointed about the middle. Sepals | in, long, linear, acute, 

 pubescent outside. Petals 5, unequal, shorter than the sepals. Capsules 

 membranous, inflated. Seeds usually 1 in each cell, roundish, tubercled. 

 Fl. B. I. V. 1, p. 364 ; Grab. Cat. p," 18 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 23, and Suppl. 

 p. 10; K. Schum, in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. v. 3, part 6, p. 93, 

 fig. 48, B-D ; Bedd. For. Man. in Flor. Sylvat. p. xxxiii, t. 4, tig. 4 ; 

 Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 22; AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) 

 p. 129 ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. v. ], p. 226 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, 

 p. 566.- — Flowers : July-Aug. 



A handsome tree, planted throughout the Presidency, said by Nimmo (ex Graham, 

 1. c.) to be found in the S. Konkan. It is probable that an introduced, not an indi- 

 genous, plant is referred to. Bedduine (1. c.) states that it has never been seen by him 

 in any of the southern forests, and Talbot does not mention it as growing in the 

 S. Konkan or Kanara, Several trees may be seen growing in the botanical garden of 

 the College of Science at Poona. — Distrib. Malaya, East tropical Africa. 



4, HELICTERES, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs, more or less stellately pubescent. Leaves entire or 

 serrate. Flowers axillary, solitary or fascicled. Calyx tubular, 5-fid at 



