DO 
Engrav. Gaertn. fr. IT. t. 98. f. 2.—Rumph. Amb. HI. t. 63. 
Srec. Cuar. Carpels with a longitudinal furrow above: flowers 
‘small, dull orange. 
Sunderbunds, flowering in March and April. 
ORDER XXI. BYTTNERIACEZ. 
Trees or shrubs, usually covered with stellate hairs or scurf: 
leaves simple, alternate: stipules deciduous: flowers clustered, 
spiked or panicled: calyx 4-5-cleft, valvate in estivation: 
corolla wanting, or else of petals equal in number to the seg- 
‘ments of the calyx, twisted in estivation, often adhering to the 
‘staminal tube: stamens hypogynous, definite and opposite the 
petals, or twice as many, half of which only are fertile, or in- 
‘definite, almost always cohering in a tube: anthers 2-celled, 
‘turned inwards and opening lengthwise: carpels 4-10, arrang- 
ed round a central column: styles equal in number to the car- 
pels: fruit a capsule: seeds sometimes winged: alpumen fleshy 
or mucilaginous. 
GENUS I, KLEINHOVIA. 
Monadelphia Polyandria. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. Called after Klienhoff, formerly Director of the Botaniy 
eal Garden at Batavia. 
Gen. Car. Trees: petals 5, one much ‘broader than the 
others: stamens pentadelphous at the apex, each bundle bearing 
three anthers on the outside: style 1: stigma slightly crenated ; 
capsule inflated, turbinate, 5-angled, 5-seeded. 
K. nosprra. (Linn.) 
Ident.. W. & A. prod. I. p. 64.—Dec. prod. L p. 488.— Roxb, 
a. Ind. IIT. p. 141. 
Engrav. Rumph. Amb. III. t. 113. 
Src. Cuar, Small tree: leaves broad-cordate, acuminated, 
entire: panicles terminal ; flowers small,’ pale rose-coloured, 
* Peninsula. South Concans, ' 
