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racemes of flowers yellow, very long pendulous ; aestivation of 

 calyx in duplicate; carpels rough, with stellate pubescence ; flowers 

 in December. South Concan, Vingorla, Canara. Ropes and bags 

 are made from the bark of this tree in Goa and Canara. 



2. GUTTATA, Roxb. Leaves broadly ovate and oblong, entire ; 

 flowers in simple axillary terminal racemes, velvetty yellow, 

 spotted with purple; carpels large, of a reddish colour; seeds large, 

 eatable. Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 148 ; Wight Ic. t. 487 ; flowers in threes, 

 subsessile; calyx tomentose outside, villous within. Common on 

 the Ghauts. Cloth is manufactured from this tree in Malabar. 

 Native names " Kookur," " Goldar." 



3. COLORATA, Roxb. Cor. i, 28, t. 25. Leaves palmately 

 5-lobed, glabrous ; calyces cylindrical clavate, bright orange red, 

 velvetty ; carpels oblong glabrous, opening long before the seeds 

 are ripe a very rare peculiarity. Common on the Ghauts and jun- 

 gles in the Deccan; flowers in March and April, when the young 

 leaves make their appearance. Roxb. Cor. / 25. This is called 

 now " Firmiana cciorata," ex. Walp. Sect, erythropsis, Lindley. 

 Native name " Khowsey" or " Bhaeekoee." Hook. Ic. PI, t. 148; 

 Firmiana (Marsili Aet. Patav. 1, 116, t. 1 and 2) ; Erythropsis 

 Roxburghiana. Schott. and Endl. Meletem Bot. 33. 



4. URENS, Roxb. A large tree ; leaves 5-lobed, soft and vel- 

 vetty beneath ; panicles terminal, short ; carpels covered with bristly 

 hairs which sting like those of the Cowitch (Mucuna); bark of 

 the trunk white ; the seeds are said to be cathartic, but has been 

 used as coffee ; flowers in December. Common in the Concan. 

 This tree exudes a white gum like tragacanth. 



XXVII. BYTTNERIACE^E. 

 1. BYTTNERIA, LcefL, Linn. 



1 . HERBACEA, Roxb. A small plant with polymorphous serrate 

 downy leaves, and red and yellow flowers from the axils of the 

 leaves. Roxb. Cor. i, t. 29; Fl Ind. i, 619; Syn. Commersonia 

 herbacea, Don. Pretty common about Bombay in the rains. 



2. KLEINHOVIA, Linn. 



1. HOSPITA, Linn. A small tree with broad cordate leaves and 

 small pink flowers in terminal panicles; capsule turbinate inflated. 

 S. Concan, Nimmo; Rumph. Amb. iii, t. 1 13. A doubtful native. 



3. WALTHERIA, Linn. 



1 . INDICA, Linn. Herbaceous plant, with oblong softly tomen- 

 tose leaves ; head of flowers terminal and axillary sessile or peduncu- 

 lated ; flowers small, yellow. A very variable plant, hence burdened 



