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Arbor mediocris. Cortex trunci griseus, longitudine fissus. Folia et 

 inflorescentia juvenilia saepe pilosa sed demum glabrescentia; ramuli 

 glabri teretes, biennes, grisei vel fusco-grisei. Petioli glabri, 7-30 mm. 

 longi, supra canaliculati, virides; lamina nutans, oblonga v. elliptica, apice 

 acuta vel mucronata vel attenuata, basi acuta vel rotundata vel subcordata, 

 2-14.5 cm. longa, 0.7-7.5 cm. lata, subcoriacea, supra glabra vel sparsis- 

 sime scaberulociliata secus venas primarias adpresse ciliata, margine 

 crenulato-serrata vel interdum subintegra vel subduplicato-serrata. In- 

 florescentia erecta terminalis thyrsoidea ; basi nuda vel foliosa, 3-20 cm. 

 longa, ramis primo pilosis sed glabrescentibus; flores densi sessiles vel 

 brevissime pedicellati, suaveolentes; calyx 5-lobus, lobis 1.5 mm. longis 

 orbicularibus vel ovato-orbicularibus margine ciliolatis; corolla alba, 

 tubo incluso vel subexserto, lobis oblongis obtusis reflexis 2-3 mm. longis; 

 stamina exserta; antherae ovato-oblongae, albae, apiculatae; styli apice 

 bifidi. Bacca parva sphaerica, aurantiaca, inedulis; pyrenae 1-2. 



Formosa: Bankinsing, A. Henry, nos. 506, 443;Takow, A. Henry, nos. 

 1874, 1778, 1778a; South Cape, A. Henry, nos. 952,922;in silvis Maruyama, 

 U. Faurie, no. 303; in silvis Paehiran, U. Faurie, no. 302; Pinan, E. H. 



Wilson, no. 11133. 



Liukiu: Naha insulae Okinawa, E. II. Wilson, no. 8018. 



China. Kwangtung: circa Canton, C. 0. Levine, no. 446. Yunnan: 

 via Peyentsin ad Tatienkai, Simeon Ten, no. 310. Kwangsi: Ta Yu Hsien, 

 //. II. Hu, no. 904. Hupeh: Ma-pan-sciah, 1000 m., C. Silvestri, no. 1919. 



This is a subtropical evergreen tree. It is the subject of Wilson's 

 photograph no. 3307. 



Ehretia serrata Roxburgh, Hort. Bengal. 17 (1814), nom. mid.; Fl. 

 Ind. ed. Carey, n. 340 (1824); Fl. Ind. ed. 2, i. 596 (1832).— Lindley in 

 Bot. Reg. xni. t. 1097 (1827).— A. de Candolle, Prodr. ix. 503 (1845).— 

 Brandis, Forest Fl. Ind. 339 (1874).— S. Kurz, Forest Fl. Brit. Burma 

 II. 210 (1877).— Gamble, List 37 (1878); M 



March 



Ehretia acuminata C. B. Clarke in Hooker f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 141 (1883) excl. 

 syn. E. ovalifolia et Cordia thyrsiflora— Brandis, Ind. Trees, 481 (1906).— 

 Kanjilal, Forest Fl. Siwalik et Jaunsar, 296 (1911). Gamble, Man. Ind. 

 Timbers, ed. 2, n. 503 (1922). 



Himalaya, Khasia, Bengal, Chittagong, Upper Burma. 

 Ehretia serrata var. pyrifolia A. de Candolle, Prodr. ix. 503 (1845). 



Ehretia pyrifolia D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 102 (1825). 



Bengal et Nepal. 



This also is an evergreen tree. The flowers appear from 



ine; the fruits ripen from May to November. 



Ehretia Dicksoni Hance in Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 4, xvm. 224 (1862). 



Ehretia macrophylla Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 145. (Ind. Fl. Sin.) 

 (1890).— Henry in Trans. Asiat. Soc. Jap. xxiv. suppl. 62. (List Fl. Formosa) 

 (1896).— Matsumura in Tokyo Bot. Mag. xn. 83 (1898).— Diels in Bot. 

 Jahrb. xxix. 545 (1900).— Matsumura & Hayata in Jour. Coll. Sci. Tokyo 

 xxn. 254 (Enum. PI. Formos.) (1906).— Pampanini in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. 

 Ital. n. ser. xvn. 699 (1910).— Bean, Trees Shrubs Brit. Isl. i. 504 (1914). — 

 Wilson in Sargent, PL Wils. in. 364 (1916), pro parte, excl. syn. Ehretia 

 corylifolia. — Non Wallich. 



