298 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



16. MACARANGA. 



M. RoxburgTiii. A tree, leaves large peltate, round, pointed, 

 long-petioled ; flowers minute in panicles, stamens 2 to 5, cap- 

 sules pea-like, sticky, in masses close to the trunk, seeds black. 

 Chdnda, chanddra. 



Matheran, Konkan, and the Ghauts. Deccan poninsula (H.). This 

 is G.'s No. 1284. 



17. HOMONOIA. 



1. H. riparia (Adelia neriifolia, D.). A shrub, with linear 

 lanceolate willow-like leaves ; flowers red in slender axillary 

 spikes, female flowers much smaller, with red 3-lobed stigma, 

 capsule very small round, 3-lobed. Sherni. 



In river beds, Deccan, Konkan and Mahableshwar, growing with 

 tamarisk and Polygonum glabrum, and much resembling the latter. 



* 2. H. retusa (Adelia r., D.). A low shrub, leaves sessile 

 obovate cuneate retuse, slightly crenate, spikes short and stout, 

 flowers minute, capsules very small. 



In river beds, Deccan (D., G. and H.). Bears some resemblance 

 to the sloe bush, and in foliage to Sida retusa (G.*). 



18. BALIOSPEEMUM. 



B. axillare (B. polyandrum, D.). A shrub, lower leaves 

 ovate, sometimes lobed, upper oblong, small, all hairy and 

 coarsely serrated ; flowers in spikes yellowish, anthers broad, 

 fruit green striped with white, 3-lobed, broader above, crowned 

 with the 3- cleft style ; seeds dark mottled and shining. 

 Jamdlgota, ddtarda, jdphalgota. 



S. Konkan. Ghauts. 



The seeds are used in the same way as those of Croton tiglium : 

 the root called d&ntimul. Dr. Dymock. 



19. TBAGIA. 



T. involucrata. Leaves oblong cordate pointed, serrated, 

 covered with stinging hairs, raceme long ; male flowers each 

 with a bract, white and green, female sepals pinnatifid, lobes 

 of capsule round. Kulti, thora dgiya, Kaldvi. 



S. Konkan. Common on the Ghauts (D.). Throughout India, most 

 variable (H.). The hairy 6-lobed calyx of the female flowers is the 

 most prominent feature of the plant. It might easily be taken for 

 one of the Menispermaceae. 



