80 



Br. lud. i. 3(33 ; Kurz For. Fl. Bnrm. i. UO ; Pierre Fl. Forest. Coch- 

 Chine, t. 2U3 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, p. 179 ; Blume Bijdr. 84 ; 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 142 ; W. & A. Prodr. i. 63 : Thwaites Enum. 28 ; Br. 

 in Beun. PI. Jav. Rar. 237 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, p. 179. H. 

 Fomes, Wall. Cat. 1130, partly. Balanopteris TotMla, Gsertn. Fruct. ii. 

 94, t. 99. 



AW the Provinces, on the coasts. Distrib. Malayan Archipelago 

 and coasts of the tropics of the old world generally, and of Australia. 



The plant originally issued by "Wallich as Trochetia contracta (Cat. 

 No. 1162) and afterwards named by him Reritiera macrophyUa, (Pierre 

 1. c. t. 204)) has by some writers been reduced to H. littoralis. But 

 Wallich's species was originally found in the interior of Burmah, and it 

 has since been found in Cachar, far from the sea coast to which H. 

 littoralis is strictly confined. H. macrophyUa has moreover leaf-petioles 

 more than twice as long as those of H. littoralis^ and its fruit is warted 

 and not smooth. 1 believe H. macrophyUa to be a perfectly distinct 

 Species ; as is also, in my opinion, the other Sylhet and Khasia small- 

 leaved plant which Wallich issued as H. acuminata. (Cat. No. 7836.) 



4. Kleinhovia, Linn. 



A tree. Leaves 5 to 7-nerved and often cordate at the base, Li- 

 fiorescence a terminal, lax, cymose panicle. Bracteoles small. Sepals 5, 

 much longer than the petals, linear-lanceolate, deciduous. Petals 5, un- 

 equal, the upper short, ovate-round, saccate, the middle pair concave and 

 obliquely oblanceolate, the lower pair flat with convolute edges. Stamens 

 20, in 6 phalanges of 3 each with five solitary, free, often non-antheri- 

 ferous, filaments between the phalanges ; the filaments of all conjoined 

 below into a long, externally hairy, narrowly cylindric tube which sur- 

 rounds the gynophore : anthers 4-celled, divergent. Ovary at the apex 

 of the long gynophore and surrounded by the staminal tube, 5-lobed, 

 6-celled. Gapside turbinate-pyriform, membranous, inflated, 5-celled, 

 loculicidal. Seedsl or 2 in each cell, tubercled : cotyledons convolute, 

 radicle inferior. Distrib. One species. Tropics of the old world. 



K. HospiTA, L. Spec. 1365. Leaves ovate-rotund, acuminate, entire, 

 palmately 3-5-nerved at the base, glabrous : length 3 to 6 in., breadth 

 2-5 to 5 in., petiole I'S to 25 in. DC. Prodr. i. 488 ; W. & A. Prodr. 

 i. 64; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 141 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 186; Blume 

 Bijdr. 86; Hassk. PI. Jav. Rar. 313; Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 

 364. Pierre Fl. Forest. Coch-Chine, t. 177. 



In all the Provinces, but usually planted. Distrib. Malaya, Austra- 

 lasia, Br. India. 



189 



