110 FLORA OF MAD11A8. [Eriolaena. 



2. ERIOLAENA QUINQUELOCULARIS, Wight under Wt. Ic. t. 882; 

 F. B. I. i. 371 ; Microchlaena quinquelocularis, W. & A. 71. 



Deccan, Sandiir Hills of Bellary, Hills of Coimbatore ; 



W. Ghats from Mysore to Travancore at 2,000 to 4,000 ft., 



common. 



A small tree with grey foliage. 



3. ERIOLAENA HOOKERIANA, W. & A. 70 ; F. B. I. i. 70. 



E. Ghats from Ganjam to Godavari ; hill forests of the 

 Deccan and Carnatic, up to 5,000 ft. in Cuddapah ; W. 

 Ghats, in the Pulney Hills. 



A small tree with a light red, tough and strong wood. 

 Vern. Tel. Nar botku. 



8. Melochia, Linn. 



Herbs, shrubs, or rarely trees, stellately pubescent. Leaves 

 usually serrate. Flowers clustered, panicled or corymbose. Calyx 

 5-toothed or 5-fid, campanulate or inflated. Petals 5, spathulate 

 or oblong, marcescent. Stamens 5, opposite the petals, connate at 

 the base or beyond the middle. Staminodes minute or 0. Ovary 

 sessile or shortly stalked with 5 2-ovuled cells ; styles 5, free or 

 united at the base. Capsule with 5 loculicidal valves. Seeds 

 ascending, albuminous ; embryo straight ; cotyledons flat. 



Herb with flowers in densely crowded terminal clusters... 1. corchorifolia. 

 Small tree with flowers in umbellate corymbs 2. umbellata. 



1. MELOCHIA CORCHORIFOLIA, Linn. ; F. B. I. i. 374. Eiedleia 

 corchorifolia, W. & A. 66. 



A weed of roadsides and waste places, found in most 

 Districts. 



2. MELOCHIA UMBELLATA, Stapf in Kew Bull. 1913, 317. M. 

 velutina, Bedd. ; F. B. I. i. 374. Visenia nmbcllata, Wt. 

 Ic. t. 509. 



Coorg, near Mercara (Hohenacker), elsewhere cultivated in 

 gardens and doubtfully indigenous. 



9. Waltheria, Linn. 



Herbs or undershrubs with stellate mixed with simple pubes- 

 cence. Leaves simple, serrate; stipules narrow. Flowers small, 

 in dense axillary or terminal clusters. Se2)a1s 5, connate below 

 in a tube. Petals 5. Stamens 5, connate below in a tube, 



