Heritiera
(named after Charles Louis L'Heritier, 1746-1800, a celebrated French botanist). Looking-glass Tree. SYN. Balanopteris. ORD. Sterculiaceae. A genus comprising about three species of stove evergreen trees, found on the shores of tropical Asia and Australia. Flowers unisexual, small, disposed in axillary panicles. Leaves undivided, coriaceous, penninerved, silvery-white underneath (whence the common name). Heritieras thrive in sandy loam. Large ripened cuttings will root freely in sand, under a glass, in moist heat. H. littoralis (shore). fl. reddish. l. large, coriaceous, oval-oblong, rounded at the base, silvery beneath. Tropical coasts of Old World, 1780. H. macrophylla (large-leaved).* This resembles H. littoralis. but has larger leaves and sub-erect fruit. India, &c.