Rhabdia. | €. BoRaGINEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 145 
or minutely 2-lobed. Drupe with 4 crustaceous 1-seeded pyrenes. Seeds 
oblong, albumen thin, 
1, R. lycioides, Mart. Nov. Gen. & Sp. ii. 137, t. 195; DC. Prodr. ix 
512; Fresen, in Mart. Fl. Bras. Fasc. xxii. 58, t. 9, fig. 9. R. viminea, Dalz. & 
Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 170 ; Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 823; Brand. For. Fi. 341; Kurz For. 
Fi.ii.211. R. fluvialis, Edgew. Pl. Banda, 51. R. crebrifolia, Miers Contrib. ii. 
222, t. 84. Rotula aquatica, Lour. Fl. Cochinch, 121; DC. Prodr. ix. 531. 
Ehretia viminea, Wall. Cat. 906; DC. l.c. 509. E. cuneata, Wight Ic. t. 
1385.—Careye sp. Mig. in Pl. Hohenack. n. 688. 
Inpra, alt. 0-2500 ft.; from Kumaon and Assam to CEvroN and Tenasserim, 
frequent; especially on gravelly banks flooded by rapid streams.—Disrrie. Tropical 
S.E. Asia, Africa, and Brazil. 
Height 2-6 ft. Leaves $ by} in. Flowers lin. Drupe } in, yellow or brown- 
red, nearly dry. 
5. TOURNEFORTIA, Linn. 
Trees or shrubs, often rambling or subscandent. Leaves alternate, entire. 
Cymes terminal, rarely lateral or extra-axillary, dichotomous, scorpioid ; flowers 
numerous, dense, sessile or very shortly pedicelled, ebracteate, white or greenish- 
yellow. Sepals 5 or 4, lanceolate or ovate.  Corolla-tube cylindric (short in 
T. argentea), naked in the throat ; lobes 5 or 4, small, patent. ‘Stamens 5 or 4, 
included in the tube, filaments short; anthers oblong. Ovary 4-celled ; style 
see terminal, short, shortly 2-lobed (in the Indian species); ovules 1 in each cell. 
& 
'Drupe small, ovoid, scarcely fleshy, not distinctly separating into 2 or 4 
.Pyrenes; pyrenes two 2-celled 2-seeded (in the Indian species). Seed straight or 
curved, albuminous.—DisTRIB. Species 100 ; in the tropics of both hemispheres. 
Sect. 1. Mallota. An erect, densely silky shrub. Leaves narrowed at 
the base. Corolla subrotate, tube very short. 
l. T. argentea, Linn. f. Suppl. 133; branches and leaves on both 
surfaces fulvous-sericeous, leaves obovate-lanceolate, cymes very dense. Roxb. 
Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. ii. 4; Blume Bid. 844; DC. Prodr. ix. 514.— 
Rumph. Herb. Amboin. iv. t. 55. 
Seashores of Ceyton and the Maray PEwiNsvLA. Nicopars; Kurz.—DisTRiE. 
Malaya, Australia, Mauritius. mE 
Branchlets thick. Leaves 6 by 2 in. acute or subobtuse; petiole ill-defined. 
Peduncles terminal, or from an upper axil, 1-5 in.; cymes often forming a panicle 6 
in. diam. ; flowers sessile. Sepals 3, in., ovate, densely woolly, ultimately glabres- 
cent. Corolla-tube hardly as long as the sepals ; lobes 4c in., ovate, crenulate. Stigma 
subsessile, obscurely 2-lobed. Drupes } in. diam., subglobose. 
Secr. 2, Pittonia. Rambling or subscandent shrubs. Leaves obtuse at 
the base, distinctly petioled. Corolla 5-merous, narrowly tubular. 
* Drupes shortly pedicelled (all from the Deccan). 
2. T. Heyneana, Wall. Cat.910 ( Heyne's specimen) not of DC. ; leaves 
oblong-laneeolate, corolla-tube i-i in. T. cymosa, Heyne in Herb, Rottler, not 
of Linn. 
Deccan PexisvrA, Heyne ; Nilgherries (near Nadooputtah), Wight. 
Branchlels sparsely scabrous-hairy. Leaves 5 by 14 in., acuminate, base cuneate or 
rhomboid, mature sparsely minutely scabrous-hairy on both surfaces; nerves 7 pair, 
closely hairy when young; petiole 3 in. Cymes terminal and extra-axillary, sparsely 
Scabrous-hairy, Calyz-teeth } in., lanceolate. Drupes } in., or pedicels j in.— 
allich appears to have received a small quantity of this species, and to have named 
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