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XIV.—BYTTERNACE^, DC. Prod. 1, p 481. 



STERCULIA, Linn., Monoecia Monadelphia. 



1 . S Alata, Roxb. Fl. 3, 1 52. — A very tall rumous tree ; habitat 

 Nortli Canara ; leaves cordate entire, 5 to 3-nerved ; fruit size 

 of a child's head ; seeds winged. 



There are two trees in the garden at Hewra, raised from seed 

 brought from Koorsullie, on the Black River. 



2. S Platanifolia, Linn. Fil. Supp. 423; Don's sy^t. 1, p517. 

 — The tree raised under this name from Bengal seed, and now 

 growing in the garden at Hewra common, answers in its leaves 

 rather to the description of S Populifolia, than to that of Platanifolia. 

 As it has not yet flowered, the species remains doubtful. It is rather 

 an ornamental tree, with regular horizontal branches, and branchlets 

 dividing off at right angles. 



3. S Fjetida, W. and A. 236 ; Roxb. Fl. 3, p 153 ; Rumph. Amb. 

 3, t. 107. — "Jungly Budam," Bastard Poon Tree ; a stately tree 

 with digitate leaves, deciduous in cold weather; flowers in March 

 and April ; smell of flowers very offensive ; carpels large, kidney- 

 shaped. Gardens in Southern Concan, Mahim, Dapoorie, &c. 



4. Eriochlena Hookeri, W. and A. 259. — We have this tree 

 growing at Hewra. The indigenous species of Western India, 

 described in our former edition, will be found in our Indigenous 

 Catalogue, under its true name. This has a capsule much more 

 blunt, and the habit of the tree is different from that of ours. 



KLEINHOVIA, Monadelphia Polyandria. 



5. K HospiTA, W. and A. ; Roxb. Fl 3, p 141 ; Rumph. Amb. 

 t. 113. — Eastern Islands; a tree, with alternate broad cordate 

 leaves, small pink flowers, and pear-shaped inflated capsule. We 

 have never seen nor heard of this tree in the Southern Concan. 



THEOBROMA, Monadelphia Decandria. From thcos, GoA; 

 hroma food ; celestial food. 



6. T Cacoa, W. and A. 239. Native of South America. The 

 Chocolate-nut tree ; dies when planted at any distance from the 

 coast. Gardens in Bombay. 



ABROMA, Monadelphia Decandria. Not fit for food, in con- 

 tradistinction to the last ; a, privative. 



7. A Augusta. — Eastern Bengal (?) ; Devil's Cotton ; a shrub, 

 with soft velvetty branches, ovate oblong-acuminate leaves, and 

 dark-red flowers ; capsule 5-angled, containing the seeds in a very 

 light cottony envelope, hence the name. In gardens ; not common. 

 Ihe bark affords a strong fibre. 



GUAZUMA, W. and A., Monadelphia Dodecandria. A 

 Mexican name. 



