142 c. BoRAGINEX. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Ehretia, 
505; Wight Ic. t. 1382 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 170; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 240; . 
Kurz For. Fl. ii. 210; Brand. For. Fl. 340, t. 42. E. punctata, Roth Nov. Sp. | 
126. E. affinis, Wall. Cat. 900. E. dichotoma, Rottl. in Wall. Cat. 904, - 
probably of Blume also. Beurreria levis and punctata, G. Don Gen. Syst. 1 
iv. 390. 
Throughout Ixpia in tropical and subtropical regions, common.—DIsTRIB. From - 
Persia to China, Australia and Polynesia, the allied Tropical African species are ; 
rhaps only geographical forms. ; 
pe A tree 30-40 foet, or a shrub ; branchlets glabrous, or rusty-pubescent, or sparsely 1 
laxly hirsute. Leaves 5 by 2} in., unsymmetrie, rather thin in texture, young glabrous : 
softly hairy or densely tomentose, mature glabrescent; petiole 3 in. Corymbs 3 im. - 
lax, glabrous or usually pubescent or rusty, ultimate branches long recurved with 1 
sessile fruits. Ca/yz-lobes J, in., oblong, in fruit ovate. Corolla-tuhe 1, in,, lobes din, 
spreading. Anthers exsert. Drupe (when perfecting 4 seeds) 1 in. diam., depressed = 
globose, when dry distinctly 4-ribbed, pyrenes 4 each 1-seeded ; on one corymb are 
usually seen drupes perfecting 1, 2, 3, or 4 seeds.—All authors previous to Brandis - 
have kept this species distinct, describing it as absolutely glabrous; it is however — 
nearly always manifestly hairy, and the indumentum is rusty, pubescent, ciliate, - 
hirsute or tomentose at least in the innovations. E 
Var. floribunda, Brand. For. Fl. 340; innovations hairy or glabrous, corymbs - 
large axillary or collected towards the ends of the branches often forming quasi- - 
panicles 6 in, diam, E. floribunda, Benth. in Royle Ill. 306; DC. Prodr. ix. 007; 3 
Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 124, E. Cutranga, Ham, in Wall. Cat. 7012.—Punjab to Behar. — 
Distrib. Cabul. 4 
Var. pubescens; branchlets hairy, mature leaves softly hairy beneath or on both z 
surfaces. E, pubescens, Benth. in Royle Ill. 306; DC. Prodr. ix. 597.—Throughout | 
India. E 
Var. timorensis; glabrous or the innovations and corymbs rusty-pubescent, leaves ^ 
broadly oblong or somewhat obovate acuminate, corymbs axillary and terminal. | 
timorensis, Dene. in Nouv. Ann. Mus. d' Hist. Nat. iii. 395; DC. Prodr. ix. 505. 3 
philippensis, A. DC. Prodr. ix. 604. E. levis, type Benth. Fl. Austral. iv. 389.—Malay ` 
Peninsula, Distrib. Malaya, Australia.— Leaves often 6 in., usually larger and more 
acuminate than in the Indian E. levis, also drying very black and usually symmetric 
or nearly so. As to the fruit, in E. levis type it is often sub-2-pyrenous, the pyrenes 
only separating into 4 ultimately or with difficulty. . 
Var. canarensis; glabrous or nearly so, leaves broadly oblong symmetric nar- 
rowed at both ends, mature glabrous above rugose with impressed nerves scabrous 
beneath. E. canarensis, Mig. in Pl. Hohenack. n. 285. E. Championi, Wight $ 3 
Garda. ms.—W. Deccan Peninsula and Ceylon.— The common Ehretia of the Nil- 2 
ghiris (alt. 3-6000 feet) and other Deccan Mts. It has been regarded as à distinet 1 
species, being readily distinguished by the symmetric strong-nerved leaves. 3 
Var. aspera; leaves small obtuse mature hairy beneath. E. aspera, Roxb. Core - 
Pl. i. 41, t. 55, and in FI. Ind. ed. Carey § Wall. ii 342; Wall, Cat. 902; DC. Prodt, — 
ix. 507; Bedd. For. Man. 166; Brand. For. Fl. 340; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 209. 
tomentosa, Roth Nov. Sp. 126, not of Lamk. E. Heynii, Roem. & Sch. Syst. iv. 004 — 
Beurreria aspera, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 390.—Assam.—Described from Roxburghs P 
example in Herb. Wallich (which agrees with his Ic. Ined. in Herb. Kew), on whieh 3 
the largest leaves are 13 by 1 in., scabrous above, persistently hairy beneath. None - 
of the E. aspera (except from E. Bengal) agrees with this exactly, the E. aspera of | 
Kurz, Dalzell, &c., having larger leaves and resembling E. levis, var. pubescens: — 
Wight's E. aspera includes an example absolutely glabrous, the young leaves and 3 
calyx shining glabrous ; no example of E. levis type is so glabrous. A very hairy - 
obtuse-leaved example collected at Arcot by Griffith has the calyx-lobes narrowly - 
oblong and the style deeply bifid. 3 
4. E. obtusifolia. Hochst.; A. DC. Prodr. ix. 507; leaves obovate” 
oblong obtuse mature hairy, flowers as of E. levis but rather larger. Bi 
