4\ NAUCLEA CORDIFOLIA. 
Stipules as in the former. 
Peduncles axillary, from one to four, round, downy, length of the 
petioles, near the apex jointed, and bracted ; each supports a 
single globular head. 
Bracts oval, falling. 
Flowers as in the former. 
Calyx five-parted: divisions club’d. 
Corol, Stamens and Style as in the former. 
Stigma club’d. 
Capsule wedge-form ; the rest as in the foregoing species. 
Seeds about six in each cell, surrounding their receptacle, oblong, 
not imbricated: membrane wing’d at the extremities: lower 
pointed ; upper two-fork’d. 
This, like the foregoing species, grows to a large tree, and is a 
native of the mountainous parts of this coast ; flowers during the 
wet season ; seeds ripe about April. 
The wood is exceedingly beautiful, its colour like that of the box- 
tree, but much lighter, and at the same time very close grained ; it 
is to be had of a large size, from one to two feet or more in diameter ; 
is used for almost every purpose where it can be kept dry; for fur- 
niture it answers exceedingly well, being pretty, light, and durable. 
54. NAUCLEA PURPUREA. 
Bagada of the Telingas. 
Trunk irregular. Bark scabrous, ash-colour’d. 
Branches opposite, decussated. 
Leaves opposite, decussated, short-petioled, oblong, pointed, most 
entire, very smooth and shining both above and below ; from 
four to nine inches long. 
Stipules as in the two former. 
Peduncles terminal, one or three, as in Nauclea parvifolia. 
Flowers \arger than in either of the former, purple. 
Calyx, as in Nauclea cordifolia. 
Corol, Stamens, Pistil, and Style, as in the former. 
Stigma globular. 
Capsule top-shape, wants the outer covering, two-cell’d: the cells 
two-valved on the out or convex side; on the inside, there is 
only the receptacle of the fruit, which is broad. 
Seeds numerous, most minute, imbricated, with their insertions 
upwards. 
A small tree; a native of the moist valleys among the Circar 
mountains ; flowering time April (beginning of the hot season.) 
55. EHRETIA ASPERA. 
Willden. phytogr. 1. p. 4. tabsor fF 4. 
Tella-juvie of the Telingas. 
Trunk and larger Branches covered with dark rust-colour’d bark ; 
young shoots downy. 
Leaves alternate, petioled, egg’d, above scabrous, below downy, 
two or three inches long, and one or two broad. 
Petiole channel’d, about an inch long. 
Corymbe terminal, globular, composed of dense, recurved, one-row’d, 
spikes, divisions always two-fork’d. 
EHRETIA ASPERA. 42 
Flowers very small, white. 
Calyx : divisions egg'd, outside downy. 
Corol: tube bell’d, not swelled at the base. 
Style two-cleft. 
Stigmas simple. 
Berry size of a grain of pepper, red, marked with four angular ele- 
vations, corresponding with the angles of the four-parted nut. 
Nut four-parted, smooth, each division one-cell’d. 
This is a small bushy tree, or shrub, a native of dry, rocky, 
barren places ; flowers during the wet season. 
56. EHRETIA LAVis. 
Serigada of the Telingas. 
Bark ash-colour’d. 
Branches numerous, nearly erect. 
Trunk erect. 
Leaves alternate, short-petioled, oval, sometimes scollop’d, pretty 
smooth, three or four inches long, and about two or three 
_broad. 
Corymbes lateral, or axillary, two-fork’d, composed of thin, recurved, 
one-rank’d spikes. 
Flowers white, small. 
The parts of fructification as in the last, except that here the 
seeds, or nuts, are wrinkled on the outside. The chief specific dif- 
ference is in the corymbes ; there, they are terminal ; here, lateral, 
or axillary. 
This species grows to a pretty large tree, and is a native of our 
Circar mountains, 
57. EHRETIA BUXIFOLIA. 
Cordia retusa. Vahl symb. 2. p. 42. 
Bupana-boory of the Telingas. 
Leaves on the young shoots alternate, on the former branchlets fas- 
cicled, sessile, reflected, wedge-form, very scabrous, very hard, 
above shining, from half, to one inch long, and from about a 
quarter to half an inch broad. 
Peduncle from amongst the leaves on the woody branchlets, from two 
* "to six-flower’d. 
Pedicels very short. 
Flowers small, white. 
Calyx five-parted: divisions lanced, as long as the corol. 
Corol bell’d ; border five or six-cleft: 
Stamens five or six, shorter than the corol. 
Style two-cleft. 
Stigma simple. 
Berry size of a pea, succulent, red. 
Nut five or six-cell’d. 
This is a middle-sized, ramous shrub ; very common in barren 
lands and forests ; flowering time the wet season. 
