80 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 
Br. Ind. i. 363 ; Kurz For. FI. Burm. i. 140 ; Pierre FI. Forest. Coch- 
Chine, t. 203 ; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat, i. pt. 2, p. 179 ; Blume Bijdr. 84 ; 
Roxb. FI. Ind. iii. 142 ; W. & A. Prodr. i. 63 : Thwaites Enam. 28 ; Br. 
in Benn. PI. Jav. Rar. 237 ; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, p. 179. H. 
Fomes, Wall. Cat. 1139, partly. Balanopteris Tothila, Gsertn. Fruct. ii. 
94, t. 99. 
All the Provinces, on the coasts. Distrib. Malayan Archipelago 
and coasts of the tropics of the old world generally, and of Australia. 
The plant originally issued by Wallich as Trochetia contracta (Cat. 
No. 1162) and afterwards named by him Ueritiera macrophylla, (Pierre 
1. c. t. 204) has by some writers been reduced to H. littoralis. But 
Wallich’8 species was originally found in the interior of Burmah, and it 
has since been found in Cachar, far from the sea coast to which II. 
littoralis is strictly confined. II. macrophylla has moreover leaf-petioles 
more than twice as long as those of H. littoralis, and its fruit is warted 
and not smooth. I believe H. macrophylla to be a perfectly distinct 
species; as is also, in my opinion, the other Sylhet and Khasia small- 
leaved plant which Wallich issued as H. acuminata. (Cat. No. 7836.) 
4. Kleinhovia, Linn. 
A tree. Leaves 5 to 7-nerved and often cordate at the base. In- 
florescence a terminal, lax, cymose panicle. Bracteoles small. Sepals 5, 
much longer than the petals, linear-lanceolate, deciduous. Petals 5, un- 
equal, the upper short, ovate-round, saccate, the middle pair concave and 
obliquely oblanceolate, the lower pair flat with convolute edges. Stamens 
20, in 5 phalanges of 3 each with five solitary, free, often non-antheri- 
ferous, filaments between the phalanges ; the filaments of all conjoined 
below into a long, externally hairy, narrowly cylindric tube which sur- 
rounds the gynophore : anthers 4-celled, divergent. Ovary at the apex 
of the long gynophore and surrounded by the staminal tube, 5-lobed, 
5-celled. Capsule turbinate-pyriform, membranous, inflated, 5-celled, 
loculicidal. Seeds 1 or 2 in each cell, tubercled : cotyledons convolute, 
radicle inferior. Distrib. One species. Tropics of the old world. 
K. Hospita, L. Spec. 1365. Leaves ovate-rotund, acuminate, entire, 
palmately 3-5-nerved at the base, glabrous : length 3 to 6 in., breadth 
2-5 to 5 in., petiole 1'5 to 2'5 in. DC. Prodr. i. 488 ; W. & A. Prodr. 
i. 64 ; Roxb. FI. Ind. iii. 141 ; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 186 ; Blume 
Bijdr. 86; Hassk. PI. Jav. Rar. 313; Mast, in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. i. 
364. Pierre FI. Forest. Coch-Chine, t. 177. 
In all the Provinces, but usually planted. Distrib. Malaya, Austra- 
lasia, Br, India. 
