The lobes of the stigma in this species seem 

 on first opening to cohere by pairs and afterwards 

 separate. The plant here represented seems to 

 correspond in every thing with DeC/s character, 

 except the size of the leaves; in his they are 

 said to be 3 inches long and 1| broad, in mine 

 they scarcely exceed half that size. This differ- 

 ence is in itself of small moment, but it may 

 be indicative of the existence of other differences 

 to which the character does not allude. 



entire, coriaceous : flowers solitary, axillary, on the 

 ends of short leafy branches, sub-sessile: calyx 5- 

 parted, lobes ovato-lanceolate, equaling the tube 

 of the corolla, glabrous : corolla 5-cleft, lobes ovate 

 obtuse: stamens attached near the bottom of the 

 tube, scarcely exserted: style fiUform: stigma cap- 

 itate: fruit dry, 4-seeded. 



Banks of the Cavery river near Errode, flower- 

 ing February. 



A small, very ramous bush, growing on the 



banks and on sand-banks in the bed of the river. 



1382. Ehretia L.EVIS (Roxb.), arboreous, glab- Appears very nearly allied to Wallich's E. viminia^ 



rous: leaves petioled, from oval to oblong lanceo- 

 late, acuminate at both ends, smooth, shining above: 

 corymbs axillary, dichotomously many-spiked: pe- 

 dicels and deeply 5-cleft calyx slightly hairy: cor- 

 olla rotate, lobes reflexed : stamens exserted. — 

 Leaves from 3 to 6 inches long, from 1^ to 3 broad; 

 petiols from 4 to 1^ inch long, axils of the veins 

 sometime hairy or furnished with a gland: flowers 

 sub-sessile, secund on the numerous circinate spikes: 

 drupes about the size of a large pepper corn; red 

 when ripe. 



Neilgherries, on the eastern slopes, flowering 

 during the cool season December and January. 



1383. Ehretia ovalifolea (R. W.), sub-arbore- 

 ous, glabrous ; leaves short petioled ; from oval 

 obtuse at both ends to somewhat obovate, or end- 

 ing in short blunt acumen, smooth on both sides: 

 corymbs terminal or axillary, dichotomously branch- 

 ed, circinate : flowers secund, short pedicelled : 

 calyx deeply five-cleft, slightly hairy: corolla rotate, 

 limb reflexed: stamens exserted: style about the 

 length of the tube of the corolla scarcely exserted: 

 drupe red when ripe, about the size of a small pea. 



Coimbatore, flowering during the rainy season, 

 from August till October: fruit ripe March and 

 April. 



A small very ramous tree, leaves from an inch 



but, so far as I can make out from the discription, 



quite distinct. 



1386. TouRrfiFORTiA reticosa (R. W.), shrub- 

 by, climbing: branches terete and with the under 

 surface of the leaves sparingly covered with short 

 appressed pubescence: leaves short petioled, ovato- 

 lanceolate acuminate, acute, round at the base, 

 dark green above, pale beneath and marked with 

 a delicate net-work of brownish purple veins: pe- 

 duncles leaf-opposed, dichotomous; branches divar- 

 icating, spikes corymbose, circinate: calyx 5-parted, 

 lobes ovate, hispid: corolla 4 or 5 times longer 

 than the calyx, hairy, obtusely 5-lobed: stamens 

 5, inserted near the base, included: fruit . 



Western slopes of the Neilgherries, below Ne- 

 dawuttem, flowering in April, and in Coorg, (Jer- 



don). 



One I saw was 10 



to lA 



smooth and glabrous on both sides, the older ones 

 somewhat coriaceous. This species seems nearly 

 allied to E. aspera from which, however, it seems 

 quite distinct. 



1384. Ehretia Wightiana (Wall.), shrubby, glab- 

 rous, ramuli slender, smooth : leaves elliptico-lance- 

 olate, sub-acuminate above, tapering below into 

 longish slender petiol, quite entire, smooth on 

 both sides: corymbs terminal, compact, dichoto- 

 mous; branches revolute: flowers secund, sub-ses- 

 sile: calyx 5-lobed much shorter than the tube 

 of the "sub-hypocarteriform corolla: stamens exsert- 

 ed: style equalin 

 about the size of a large pepper corn. 



Courtallum, flowering August and September. 



Mr. G. Don remarks that this species is nearly 

 allied to E. umhdlulata. Wall. That species, judg- 

 ing from the discription, Alph. D. C. has removed 

 from this genus to Ilix, then, acting on Don's re- 

 mark and not having seen a specimen, has equally 

 excluded this species fi:om the genus Ehretia^ in 

 which he has certainly fallen into an enor. 



1385. Ehretia (xeroberma) cttniata (R. W.), 

 shrubby, branches virgate terete, glabrous, nigres- 

 cent, smooth: leaves obovate cuniate, retuse, sub- 

 sessile, glabrous and smooth on both sides, quite 



A large climbing shrub. 

 or 12 feet high: leaves 4-6 inches long, about 

 Ih broad, sparingly sprinkled with hairs above, 

 pubescent beneath. What I gathered as fruit 

 proved on examination the nidus of an insect. 

 This species seems most nearly to approach T. 

 viridiflora^ but is quite distinct, as shown at once 

 by the comparatively large flowers and small calyx. 



The plant figured No. 892, under the name of 

 Heliotropium Zeylanicum, is, I now find, a species 



or 2 inches long and about half the breadth, of Tournifortia^ which may be thus defined: 



g the tube: drupes, immature, 



TOTTRNIFORTIA (MeSSERCHMIDIA) ZeTLANICA (R. 



W. Heliotropium Zeylanicum, Burm.), suffricticose, 

 erect, ramous, hispid: leaves oblong-lanceolate, pilo- 

 so-hispid on both sides: spikes elongated giminate 

 circinate: tube of the corolla 5-cleft, about twice 

 the length of the calyx; lobes subulato-acuminate, 

 toothed in the sinuses: pericarp dry, consisting of 

 4 one-seeded nuts. 



Frequent in cultivated land about Coimbatore, 

 flowering during the autumnal rains and through- 

 out the cool season. I also met with it in the 

 Bellary district. 



This species seems very nearly allied to both 

 T. subulata and T. Edgeworthii, if indeed they 

 be not all the same species. The mode of aestiva- 

 tion of the corolla found in this species is common 

 to this last section of Toumifortia and to the first 

 (Catimas) of Heliotropium^ as they stand in DeC.'s 

 prodromus, forming a beautiful transition connect- 

 ing link between the two genera. In both the 

 tips of the segments of the corolla are long and 

 narrow and, before the full expansion of the flowers, 

 are folded down into the tube. 



I believe we are indebted to DeCandolle for 

 first noticing this curious aestivation, which seems 

 80 peculiar as almost to justify the removal of 

 these sections from their respective genera to be 



united to form an intermediate genus. 



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