144 c. BORAGINES. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Ehretia. | 
dry longitudinally ribbed; pyrenes 4, compressed, lunate, corrugated without, occupy- 
ing the periphery of the drupe, the centre (in the dried drupe) hollow, oceupied by 
the shrivelled fleshy tissue; pyrenes 1-seeded.—Perhaps a small-flowered form of 
the Hong-Kong E. longiflora (Champ. in Hook. Kew Journ. v. 58), which agrees ex- 
actly as to the fruit and leaves, but has the corolla-tube 3 in. long. 
Secr. II. Carmona. Styles 2, undivided (1 sometimes Suppress@’J, or 1 
sub-2-partite. 
10. E. buxifolia, Roxb. Cor. Pl. i. 42, t. 57, and in Fl. Ind. ed Carey § 
Wall. ii. 343 ; leaves small fascicled obovate entire or lobed, peduncles axillary 
1- (or few-) flowered. Wall. Cat. 905; DC. Prodr. ix. 509; Bedd, For. Man. 
167. E. heterophylla, Spreng. Syst. i. 648; A. DC. le. E. microphylla, 
Lamk. Il. ii. 425. Cordia retusa, Vahl Symb. à. 42. C. coromandeliana, 
Koenig & Retz ms. Carmona heterophylla, Cav. Ic. v. 23, t. 438. 
Deccan Penrysvta; in dry jungles, Wight, Dalzell, &c.—Distr. Malaya to 
Formosa and the Philippines, 
A shrub. Leaves 1 by 4 in., obtuse, very scabrous, often 3-lobed towards the apex, 
attenuated at the base, subsessile. Peduncles 0-3 in., hairy. Calyx-lobes } in., lanceo- 
late-linear. Corolla } in., white, campanulate ; lobes short, ovate. Filaments very 
short. Drupe à in. diam., globose; pyrene 1, 4-seeded; without any cavities in the 
drupes examined; with 6-8 cavities (A. DC.). 
EXCLUDED SPECIES. 
E. worus, Wall Cat, 7011; DC. Prodr. ix. 511, is Mappia ovata, Mi 
v. i. p. 509. à 
3. COLDENIA, Linn. 
Prostrate, scabrous herbs. Leaves alternate, crisped. Flowers axillary, 
sessile (or nearly so), the upper sometimes in a one-sided leafy spike, white. 
Sepals 4-5, narrow.  Corolla-tube short, lobes 4-5, imbricated in the bud; 
patent. Stamens 4-5, on the corolla-tube; anthers ovate. Ovary 2-celled with 
2 ovules in each cell, or sub-4-celled with solitary ovules; style terminal, bifid. 
Drupe (nearly dry) of 4, subconnate, 1-seeded, pyrenes. Testa of the seed thin ; 
albumen 0, or scanty; cotyledons flat.—Species 10 American, and the fol- 
owing. 
. l. C. procumbens, Linn.; DC. Prodr. ix. 558; procumbent, scabrous- 
hairy, leaves elliptic-obovate coarsely serrate or subpinnatifid, pyrenes subcon- 
nate into an acute 4-ribbed pyramid. Gaertn. Fruct. i. 329, t. 68; Lamk. Ill. 
t. 89; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 448; Wall. Cat. 942; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 171. 
Lobophyllum tetrandrum, F. Muell. in Hook. Kew Journ. ix. 91. Waltheria 
microphylla, Mig. in. PI. Hohenack, n. 87 b. not of Cav. 
Throughout tropical INDIA, a weed,—DisrRrB, Asia, Africa, Australia, America. 
Annual, usually quite flat. Leaves 1-1} in. Flowers} in. Pyrenes à in. Seeds 
albuminous, 
4, RHABDIA, Mart. 
A shrub; branches twiggy. eaves small, alternate or clustered, linear- 
oblong, entire or toothed. Flowers small; racemes very small, few-fld., sub- 
terminal on short lateral branches. Sepals 5, lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla 
pink-purple , tube short, campanulate; lobes oblong, imbricate in the bud. 
Stamens 5, on the corolla-tube ; anthers oblong or ovate. Ovary 2-celled, cells 
2-ovuled, or sub-4-celled with cells l-ovuled ; style terminal, stigma capitate 
