696 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Ehretia, 
petioled, lanceolate, generally entire, obtuse, scabrous, parti- 
cularly when dry ; about four inches long, ‘by one broad, Pe- — 
tioles short, channelled. Stipules none, Panicles terminal, 
corybiform, Flowers numerous, small, white. Calya cylin- 
_dric ; mouth obscurely four-toothed. Corol ; tube longer than 
the calyx. Border of four linear, revolute divisions, Fila- 
ments four, inserted just below the divisions of the border. 
Style two-cleft, with two-cleft divisions, Drupe the size ofa 
large pea, round, smooth, yellow, when ripe the pulp is yel- 
how gelatinous, and pellucid. Nut four-celled, though sel- 
dom more than one seed comes to maturity. 
EHRETIA. Schreb. gen. N..352. 
Calyx five-parted. Corol one-petalled, five-parted. Stig- 
_ ma two-cleft. Drupe superior, with a four-partible nut, or 
with one or two from two to six-celled nuts. 
1. E. serrata, R. 
Leaves broad-lanceolate, serrate, five-pointed, smooth, 
Flowers panicled. Style half two-cleft. Drupes vik two 
two-celled nuts. 
This tree has been introduced from Bhotan, ad is now 
growing and bearing fruit in Dr. Glass’s garden at Bhagzwl- 
poora, It is also a native of the eastern part of Bengal: 
Riuitesing time the beginning of the hot season. 
Leaves alternate, petioled, oblong, and bbroad-lanceolate, 
acutely. serrate, smooth on both sides ; from two to five inches 
long, and from one to two anda half broad. Petioles short, slen- 
der, and smooth, Stipules none. Panicles terminal, and from 
theexterior axills, ovate-oblong, with numerous, short, spread- 
ing, compound, and simple ramifications, lowers small, 
numerous, collected into small, somewhat remote, sub-sessile 
fascicles ; some of them hexandrous. Bractes ovate, small, 
ssin on the calyx, Calyx five-cleft, Corol; tube ‘as long 
« calyx; ¢ divisions of the beni oblong and s reading 
