Plerospermum.'] 



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Sub- Himalayan region from the Jumna to Bengal, Chittagong, Tonas- 

 serim, the Konkan and Burma; often planted for ornament. On the 

 southern ghats of North Kanara, in evergreen forests, abundant on the 

 Devimone ghat. Fl. C. S. Fruit remains long on tree. Wood light red, 

 firm, or soft. Pores scanty, oval. Med. ray, fine, numerous, undulating. 

 Innumerable fine transverse lines. Average weight 47 '5 lbs. per cubic 

 foot. 



3. P. Heyneanum, Wall. Cat. 1. 1C9 ; Fl. Br. I. 1. 369 ; Bedd. Fl. 

 Sylv. «j4. p. Lawianum, Nimmo. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 24. P. reti- 

 culatum,W. & A. Prod. I. 6& ; Fl. Br. 1. 1. 369 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 34. Kesali, 

 oopin, K. 



Western Peninsula from the Konkan southwards in moist forests along 

 the ghats, abundant in North Kanara, on the Sirsi and Siddapore taluka 

 ghdts. I have united P. reticulattim, W. & A., with P. Heyneanum^ 

 Wall., as they are undoubtedly the same, which view has been confirmed 

 by Dr. Stapf at Kew and Dr.Prain at Calcutta. Flowers during April 

 and May. Fruit Nov. -Jan. A large or small tree sometimes 100 ft. 

 high by 3 ft. in diam. Bark rough, lenticellate, red within. Leaves 

 on young shoots, and particularly on sucker shootS; are remarkably poly- 

 morphous, thin, very white beneath, deeply lobed and irregularly toothed, 

 mostly peltate. They are very distinct from those of the parent plant. 

 Wood reddish. Pores moderate, grouped in lines of twos or threes. 

 Med. rays short, fine, numerous. Weighs about 30 lbs. to the cubic foot. 

 Annual rings not distinct. 



e.-ERIOLiENA, DC. 



Trees. Leaves simple or lobed^ cordate^ downy or stellately tomen- 

 tose beneath. Flowers on axillary few-flowered peduncles. Bracteoles 

 3-5, often laciniate. Calyx at first spathaceous, ultimately deeply 

 5-cleft. Petals flat with broad tomentcse claws. Stamens numerous, 

 all fertile, monadelphons, in many rows, the outer gradually shorter. 

 Ovary sessile, 5-10-celled ; style 1, stigma 10-lobed. Capsule woody, 

 5-10-celled^ loculicidal. Seeds numerous in each cell, winged above; 

 albumen thin, cotyledons much contorted or plaited, radicle next the 

 hilum. 



Bracteoles pinnatisect. 



Peduncles 3 flowered. Style pilose ... 1. U. SiocJcsiu 



Peduncles many-flowered. 



Style pubescent ... ... 2. ^. Koolceriana. 



Style glabrous ... ... ... 3. -K. CandoUei. 



Bracteoles entire ... ... ... 4, quinc[udocularis. 



All these four species are closely allied and will probably eventually be 

 united into one. 



1. E. Stocksii, H.f. & T. Mss. Fl. Br. L 1. 370. Konkan, Stocks. 

 Probably not distinct fiom E. lloolceriana, 



2. E. Hookeriana, W. & A. Prod. 70 ; Fl. Br. I. 1. 370 ; Bedd. Fl. 

 Sylv. 35 ; Brandis For. Fl. 36. Bute, hother, hotkuy arang, Vern. 



Central and Southern India, Bchar and the W. Peninsula. Konkan, 

 and in the dry forcbts of the Satpudas. Fl. March-Apl. Fr. C. S. A 



