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flowers large, white, fragrant, capsule an inch or two long, slightly 

 angular, Konkans (D). Very superior torches are made of its straight 

 dried branches. Tennant. 



* P. Jieyneanum (P. lawianum, D.), larger than the last, leaves 

 variable, sometimes sub-peltate. Dharwar and S. Ghauts (D.). 



These two seem to differ but little from the first, and have the 

 same native name. 



4. MELOCHIA. 



M. corchorifolia (Riedelia c. D.). A stout, erect, rather 

 hairy plant ; leaves ovate serrate ; flowers in terminal heads , 

 pale pink with yellow throat, surrounded by subulate bracts, 

 capsule round, hairy. 



Konkan and Guzerat. Hotter parts of India (H.). 



* M. velutina (Riedelia tilicefolia, D.). A small tree with 

 long petioled subcordate leaves, when young velvety ; flowers 

 small, pink, in paenicles ; seeds winged. Methuri. 



Bassein, Belgaum, Khandalla (D.). Hotter parts of India (H.). 



5. WALTHERIA. 



W. Indica. A tough plant, softly hairy ; leaves lanceolate 

 or ovate j flowers small, yellow, crowded, on a short peduncle, 

 bracts 3 narrow ; capsule very small, black. 



Very variable. Common in all the hotter parts of India; a widely 

 diffused tropical weed (H.). 



Eriolcena. Staminal column short, bearing externally numerous 

 oblong 2-celled anthers. * E. Candolleii. A tree, leaves ovate 

 cordate, grey beneath, flowers crowded, downy, yellow, bracts deeply 

 cut ; capsule ovate, pointed. Botlcu, Arang. Ram Ghaut (D.). 



* E. Hookeriana differs from this in the leaves being roundish cordate, 

 and the capsule an inch long. Buti. Not in D. Along the Ghauts, 

 not common ((?.). 



Buettneria. Flowers minute, limb of the petals with a long strap- 

 shaped appendage, stamens 10, tubular below, 5 only being fertile. 

 * B. herbacea, a small plant with ovate leaves, and red and yellow 

 flowers, " the petals forming a circular dome over the pistil and 

 nectary" ((?.), fruit size of a pea, prickly. Common in Bombay 

 (D. and 6?.). 



Kleinhovia, staminal column dilated above into a bell-shaped 5 

 divided cnp, each division with 3 anthers. * K. hospita, a tree with 

 ovate entire leaves and very long petioles, capsule membranous, 

 inflated, pear-shaped. " A doubtful native " (D), but pretty widely 

 distributed in India (77.) . 



Theobroma cocoa, from the seeds of which chocolate is produced, 

 belongs to this order. Gardens, Bombay (D.). 



