142 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



2. ADINA. 



A. cordifolia (Naudea c. D.) A stout tree with large round 

 cordate slightly hairy leaves tinged with red, flowers in smaller 

 heads than the last, buff coloured, strong smelling, calyx very 

 small, capsule small, wedge-shaped, many-seeded. Heda, 

 haldwa, aldu. 



The Konkans, tolerably common. Dry forests throughout the 

 hilly parts of India (#.) 



3. STEPHEGTNE. 



S. parvifolia (Naudea parviflora, D.) A nearly smooth 

 tree with oval leaves, heads of flowers much smaller than the 

 last, the peduncle with 2 small leaves at the base, flowers light 

 yellow, calyx lobes very short, capsule very small. Kadam, 

 Tialwan. 



The Konkans. Throughout the drier parts of India (H.). 



Naudea. Gen. as the last. *N. missionis. Small tree, leaves 

 elliptic with winged petioles and sheathing stipules, flowers yellowish- 

 white. Chorla Ghaut (D.]. Konkan, Stocks (H.). 



(b) 4. HYMENODICTYON. 



* H. ezcelsum, leaves oblong or roundish, flowers greenish- 

 white in large panicles, floral leaves large oblong, coloured, cap- 

 sule oblong on thick curved pedicel, Icadwa, dondru, ddndelu. 



Along the Ghauts (D.) Panchmahals (-B.). * H. obovatum, leaves 

 smooth obovate, flowers in racemes, white or greenish, strong smell- 

 ing, floral leaves lanceolate, coloured, capsule small erect. Kadtcai, 

 Sirid. Ghaut jangles, common (D.). 



5. WENDENLANDIA. 



W. notoniana. A very handsome small tree or shrub, with 

 long oval nearly smooth leaves, stipules leafy, flowers in thick 

 heads or panicles of interrupted spikes, pure white, long tubed, 

 veryiragrant ; capsule enclosed in the calyx. 



Near Mahableshwar and in other parts of the Ghaits, not com- 

 mon. Hills of the Deccan peninsula, common (H ) Wight calls 

 the flowers reddish white, and H. says the leaves are usually in 

 threes. 



(c) 6. DENTELLA. 



D. repens. A small creeping plant with oval ciliated leaves 

 and small white flowers, nearly sessile, solitary or in pairs, 

 capsule compressed oval 2-celled. 



Common in moist places. 



7. HEDYOTIS. 

 77. auricularia. Prostrate, slightly hair}', leaves lanceolate 



