Ehretia.] €. BORAGINEZ. (C. B. Clarke.) 141 
Il. EH RETIA, Linn. 
Shrubs or trees, scabrous or glabrous. Leaves alternate. Corymbs or 
panicles axillary or terminal, rare y peduncles axillary 1-flowered ; flowers 
small, white. Calyx sub-b-partite. Corolla-tube short or cylindric; lobes 5, 
imbricated in the bud, patent or reflexed. Stamens 5, on the corolla-tube ; 
anthers ovate or oblong, exsert, rarely included. Ovary 2-celled, cells 2- 
ovulate; style terminal, cylindric bifid or bipartite, stigmas small capitate. 
Drupe smali, subglobose, 4- (or by suppression 3-1-) seeded; pyrene one 4- 
celled, or two 2-celled, or four l-celled; 3-1 pyrenes or cells not rarely sup- 
pressed. Seeds straight, testa thin, albumen scanty.—Species 50, all tropical ; 
principally in the Old World. 
Szcr.l. Euehretia. Style single, bifid. 
* Leaves serrate. 
l. E. acuminata, Br. Prodr. 497 ; leaves elliptic-oblong acuminate 
Serrate glabrous beneath, panicles terminal dense compound, calyx-lobes + in. 
obtuse, DC. Prodr. ix. 503; Benth. Fl. Austral. iv. 387. E. serrata, Ror 
Hort, Beng. 17, and in Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. ii. 340; Wall. Cat. 898 ; 
Bot. Reg. t. 1097 ; Wight IU. t. 170; DC. Prodr. ix. 503; Griff. Ic. Pl. As. t. 
459; Brand. For. Fl. 339; Kurz. For. Fl. ii. 210. E. pyrifolia, Don Prodr. 
E. ovalifolia, Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bog. 137, not of Wight. Cordia thyrsi- 
flora, Sieb. & Zuce, Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. ii. 26. 
SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA and adjacent plains, ascending to 5000 ft., from Ghurwal 
to Bhotan, common.  Knasra Mrs. to Pecv.— DrsrRr5. Ava, Australia, Japan. 
A tree, attaining 40 feet. Leaves 3-4 in., minutely bristly or glabrous above ; 
petiole } in. - Panicles 2-6 in., minutely bristly or glabrescent, crowded with flowers. 
‘a-tube very short ; lobes 4 in., reflexed. Anthers exsert. Style bifid for less than 
half its length, branches linear, stigmas minutely capitate. pe à-à in. diam., 
short-ellipsoid, obtuse, not ribbed nor lobed; pyrenes 2, without any hollow between 
them, each 2-celled, cells 1-seeded. 
2. E. macrophylla, Wall. Cat. 901, and in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & 
Wall. ii. 343; leaves large broadly elliptic acute serrate bristly above softly 
ury beneath, panicle terminal compound bristly, calyx-lobes (in young fruit) 
in. oblong-lanceolate. DC. Prodr. ix. 503. 
NeraL ; Chun iri, Wallich. . . 
A tree. [Aud nt by 4 in., rhomboid or rounded at the base; petiole 1 in. 
Panicle 2-3 in., sparsely fulvous hirsute. Young drupe } in. (but Wallich notes the 
alt, size of a small gooseberry); pyrenes 2, each 2-celled.— Flowers unknown to 
Mich. E, Dicksoni, Hance in Ann. Sc. Nat. 4, xviii. 224, from the interior of S. 
ina, is probably the same species (the leaves in Hance's examples are broadly 
y. Pte subeordate, not oblong as in the description); calyx softly hairy, tube ys ry 
Obes 2 in, oblong ; corolla-tube } in., pubescent without, lobes { in. ovate reflexed ; 
ers long exsert; style single long sparsely hairy, lobes 2 short oblong glabrous ; 
as of C. macrophylla, $ in. diam. 
"* Leaves quite entire, Wall. ii 
3. E. lævis, Roxb. Cor. Pl, 42, t. 55, and Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wal. ii. 
941; leaves ovate shortly acuminate undulate base unequally pes pe lahrous, 
‘a *ves 5-6 pair irregular tufted in the axils, corymbs most y 1 pubescent, 
Peatedly dichotomous branches recurved in fruit, calyx-lobes D C Prodr ix 
Style shortly 2-branched. Don Prodr. 102; Wall. Cat. 899; . . Mx. 
