Melhania.] TILIACEAE. 113 



Cymes twice as long as the petiole ; leaves roundish ovate ; bracteoles 



ovate 2. Hauiiltoniana . 



Leaves glabrous above ; bracteoles linear ; undershrubs 3. incana. 



1. MELHANIA CANNABINA, Wight ; F. B. I. i. 372. 



S. Carnatic, in Tinnevelly at Tuticorin (Wight). 



2. MELHANIA HAMILTONIANA, Wall. ; F. B. I. i. 372. M. abn- 

 tiloides, Arn. ; Wt. Ic. t. 23. 



E. Coast, in Kistna and Guntur, on rocky hills. 



3. MELHANIA INCANA, Heyne ; F. B. I. i. 372 ; W. & A. 68. 



Deccan, in Cuddapah and Coimbatore, on red-soil lands. 



Kleinhofia Hospita, L. is a showy tree often cultivated in 

 gardens and avenues. 



Pentapetes plwenicea, L., is as herbaceous annual with showy 

 scarlet flowers, cultivated and occasionally found run wild, but not 

 indigenous in S. India. 



Theobroma Cacao, Linn., the Cacao tree, producing cocoa and 

 chocolate, is sometimes cultivated in suitable places, as on the 

 Malabar Coast and in Nilgiri valleys (e.g. Barliyar). 



Family XXYIII. TILIACEAE. 



Trees, shrubs or herbs, usually with mucilage sacs in the bark 

 and leaves. Leaves usually alternate, simple or lobed ; stipules 

 free, usually small and deciduous, rarely persistent or 0. Flowers 

 regular, hermaphrodite or rarely 1-sexual, usually in terminal or 

 axillary cymes. Sepals 3-5, free or united into a campanulate 

 calyx, usually valvate. Petals 3-5 or 0, inserted round the base 

 of the torus, contorted imbricate or valvate. Stamens usually 

 indefinite, inserted on an elongated or short torus ; filaments free 

 or rarely shortly connate at the base into a complete or 5-10- 

 adelphous ring ; anther-cells 2, parallel, dehiscing by lateral clefts. 

 Ovary free, sessile on the torus, 2-10-celled ; ovules 1-many, 

 inserted on the inner angle of the cells ; style entire, divided 

 or ; stigmas terminal on the style or branches or sessile 

 on the ovary. Fruit (1-) 2-10-celled, or by false septa many- 

 celled ; baccate, or dry and dehiscing or separating into cocci. 

 Seeds solitary and numerous in each cell ; testa usually coriaceous 

 or crustaceous ; albumen usually copious ; cotyledons ovate or 

 cordate. 



