14(5 XXYTI. TILTACEiE. 



Common in evergreen foresits througliont the Konkan and N. Kanara. The fruit 

 is eaten by the natives. Konkan: liilly parts, Dalzell ^- Gibson, Grahavt ; Goa 

 jungles, Br. Lush (ex Graham) ; W. Ghats, Woodrow. Deccan : Fitzgerald Ghat 

 below Mahableshwar, Cooke !, H. M. Birdwood ; Koina valley, Cooke ! S. M. Country : 

 Londa, Woodroiv\; Castlei'oek, Woodruw \ Kanaka: Hokcnhacker, 753!; in ever- 

 green forests, Talbot. 



2. ERINOCARPUS, Nimmo. 



A tree. Leaves broad, palminervecl, toothed or lobed. Flowers large, 

 in teruiinal panicles ; bracts broadly ovate. Sepals 5, distinct. Petals 5, 

 foveolate or glandular at the base, inserted round the base of the torus. 

 Stamens indefinite, springing I'rom a raised torus, free or the exterior 

 very shortly connate into a ring. Ovary 3-5-celled ; ovules 2 in each 

 cell ; style filiform. Eruit woody, indehiscent, triquetrous, angles some- 

 what winged, the cordate faces echinate, 1-4-celled. Seeds 1 in each 

 cell, pendulous, oblong; testa coriaceous; albumen fleshy; cotyledons 

 ovate, flat. — Distrib. Peninsular India; species 1. 



1. Erinocarpus Nimmonii, Gmh. Cat. Bomb. Pits. (1839) p. 21. 

 A small tree. Leaves up to 8 in. in diam., orbicular, acutely o-7-lobed, 

 irregularly toothed, glabrous, cordate at the base, 5-9-ijerved ; petioles 

 2-4| in. long. Flowers yellow, 1 ^-^ i^- across, in lax, terminal panicles : 

 buds oblong, fulvous-pubescent, 5-pointed, 2 or 3 together enclosed in 

 an involucre of broadly ovate acute bracts, which are velvety-tomentose 

 on both surfaces and very caducous. Sepals up to 1| in. long, narrow- 

 linear, acute, deflexed, covered outside with fulvous, stellate pubescence, 

 the inner surface glabrous. Petals a little shorter than the sepals, with 

 a very long narrow cltxw ; limb obovate : gland oblong, with ciliate 

 margins, bvary 3-o-celled, pilose with stiff hairs ; style long, filiform, 

 glabrous. Fruit 1-4-celled, triquetrous, 1.7-2 in. long, acuminate, angles 

 Avinged, faces cordate at the base, covered with straight or slightly curved 

 prickles from broad bases. Seeds 1 in each cell, i in. long, oblong. 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 27. Erinocarpus Nimmoanus, M. Masters, in Hook. f. 

 FI. B. I. V. 1, p. 394; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. 

 V. 3, part 6, p. 26, fig, 12, e; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 27; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 265; AVatt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 3, 

 p. 257. — Flowers: Aug.-Sept. Veius". Chaora ; Cher; Jamjli-hhendi. 



I have examined several of the fruits and have invariably found them 

 4-celled with 1 perfect seed in each cell. 



Konkan: Stocks \, Law \; 'Bomhuy, Graham \, Capt. Gchurne\; hills near Matheran, 

 H. M. Birdtvood, Kanitkarl; Wassind, Kanitkarl; top of Karanja Hill, Graham. 

 Dkccan : hills of the Deccan, Stocks !, Gibson \ ; Khandala, Woodrow ! ; Koina valley, 

 below Mahableshwar, Cooke ! S. M. Country : Belgauni, Bilchie, 81 ! Kanara : 

 N. Kanara forests, Talbot. 



3. TRIUMFETTA, Linn. 



Herbs or undershrubs with stellate pubescence. Leaves serrate, 

 entire or 3-5-!obed. Flowers yellow, axillary or leaf-opposed, few or 

 densely fasciculatcly cymose. Sepals 5, distinct, frequently mucronate 

 at the apex. Petals 5 (rarely 0), glandular, thickened or foveolate at the 

 base, inserted round the base of tiie torus. Stamens indefinite or rarely 

 twice as many as the sepals, inserted on a glandular torus, free. Ovary 

 5-celled; ovules 2 in each cell; style filiform; stigma 2-5-toothed. 



