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concealing the others in aestivation ; female flowers in pairs ; stigma 

 large, sessile. Hills in the Dharwar Zillah. Syn. Astylis venusta, 

 Wight. Ic. 1992. 



11. ROTTLERA, Roxb. 



1. R DicoccA, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 829. — A half-scandent shrub, 

 about 5 feet high ; leaves large, round-cordate, 3-nerved ; racemes 

 terminal and axillary ; capsule dicoccous, tomentose. In the 

 Southern Concan, very common. 



2. R Mappoides, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. — Arboreous, dioe- 

 cious ; leaves long-petioled, cordate-peltate, acuminate when old, 

 smooth above, beneath densely clothed with a whitish or ferrugi- 

 nous, starry tomentum ; male flowers spiked ; spikes axillary, com- 

 pound ; flowers clustered 5 to 6 together, naked ; female spikes 

 terminal, 4 to 5 inches long, densely covered with ferruginous 

 tomentum, Differs in some important particulars from Roxburgh's 

 R peltata, to which it is nearly allied. Syn. R peltata, Wight Ic. 

 1873. Canara, common. 



3. R AuREOPUNCTATA, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iii, p 122. 

 — A dioecious shrub ; leaves opposite, oblong-obovate, acuminate, 

 attenuated towards the base, shortly-petioled, smooth and shining 

 above, sprinkled beneath with stellate hairs, and golden-coloured 

 scales ; stipules linear caducous ; flowers racemose ; racemes simple, 

 axillary and terminal, shorter than the leaf; male flowers fascicled, 

 about 5 together ; calyx 4-divided, divisions broadly ovate, reflexed ; 

 female raceme 4 to 5-flowered ; calyx spathaceous, split on one 

 side ; capsule 9 lines in diameter, clothed with soft hairy bristles. 

 Noticed in Graham's list under 1334. Shady jungles in the Ghauts 

 and hilly parts of the Concan ; Meera Hills. rjH ^-^..e/iai.^ 



4. R Ueanda, Dalz. loc. cit. p 229. — A shrub; branchlets 

 glabrous ; leaves narrow-oblong, obtusely acuminate, coriaceous, 

 shining, attenuated into the petiole, serrulated, the serratures cal- 

 lous-pointed ; male flowers racemose, smooth ; racemes axillary, 

 solitary, shorter than the leaf; female flowers axillary, solitary, 

 with a very long peduncle, naked and smooth, 3 inches long ; 

 capsules bilocular, smooth. Well distinguished by the unusually 

 long peduncles of the solitary female flowers. Phoonda and other 

 Ghauts; in flower and fruit in November. 



5. R Tinctoria, Willd. iv, 823.— Arboreous ; leaves alternate 

 ovate-oblong, 3-nerved, with 2 glands at the base ; panicles axillary 

 and terminal ; capsules covered with a red, mealy powder, used to 

 dye red. Common in the Concan and Ghaut jungles. Native 

 name " Shendree." 



