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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 yoimg 

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

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

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

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

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



4. Ueens, Roxb. — A large tree ; leaves 6-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^. 



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, 1 113. 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 



