505° 
(8) H. racemosa. (R. WY 
Hdeni. Wight's Spicil. I. p. 70. 
“ Engrav. Wight’s Spicil. I. t. 85.—Icon. t. 1015. : 
Serc. Car. Large ttee: leaves digitate: leaflets about toby 
Yong-lanceolate, acuminated, undulating on the margin: thyrses 
panicled, usually lateral. branches racemose ! flowers a: lee 
with a small subulate bract at the base of the pedicel: petals and 
stamens 5: styles 5, short: stigmas distinct, obtuse : fruit 5-celled. 
‘Neilghetries, flowering in June and July. 
(9) H. patmara, (Wail.) 
Syx. Gastonia palmata, Roxb. ft. Ind. Il. p. 407. ~=Giliberta 
palmata, Dec. prod. IV. p, 256. 
Engrav. Bot. Reg. XI. t, 894. 
Spec. Cuar. Shrub or small tfee, armed with short straight , 
prickles: leaves palmate; 5~9-lobed, smooth above, roughish un 
derneath :, lobes lanceolate, acuminate, acutely serrated petioles ° 
somewhat sheathing at the base, with.a 2-toothed stipulary process , 
on the inside; prickly : panicles axillaty and termitial, composed of few 
Jong-peduncled umbellets:, bracts solitary. at the division of the 
panicles, sheathing, ferruginows calyx clothed’ with rusty-coloured 
tomentum on the outside: petals usually 10: style short, 8-10. 
prooved : stigma concave: berty the size of a nutmeg, 8- “10- ealleda 
flowers, numerous, rather large, white,, 
Moist valleys of Chittagong, flowering at the beginning of ‘thé ? 
year. 
, 
(10) H. acuminata. (R. W.) 
_Adent, Wight’s Igon. vel. IIT. 
|Engrev. Wight’s Icon. t. 1062, 
-Spec.'Ctar. Small tree: leaves hiieqnally pinnate: leaflets 
oval-oblong, acuminate, short-petioled: thyrses numerous, elongat- 
ed: peduneles involucrate at the base, with small , subulate bfacts : 
styles 5, free at the apex’: Motale expanding? ovary 5+celled? ums 
bels somewhat capitate: flowers very numerous, on short pedieelgs 
_Courtallum. Western slopes of the Neilgherries, 
(J1) H. rostrata, (Ri W.) 
‘Ident. Wight's Ieon. vol. Tit, 
_Engras. Wight’s Teon. t. 1013-14. 
‘Spec. Car. Tree: leaves digitate; leaflets 5-9, ovate:lanéeo= 
late, acuminated, serrated: thyrses solitary, terminal: lateral peduns | 
tles biactéated, “1~3- umibelled : petals 5s dehiscing betare falling 4 : 
