82 NEILGHERRY PLANTS. 
This last forms a distinction so marked from the preceding sections, and there is 
moreover a difference of habit, that it might well enough entitle it to rank as a distinct 
order, but the rest are better kept together as one. The differences between Cordiez and 
Ehretiez is much insisted on by many Botanists, and are no doubt considerable, but cer- 
tainly not so great as we find between the different tribes of Verbenacezx. 
As regards properties, they are not of a high order. The Cordias and Ehretias some- 
times attain sufficient size to furnish timber. The roots of a species of the latter are used 
by the Natives as a substitute for Sarsaparilla, and some of the herbaceous forms are used 
medicinally, but possess no active property. A few of the European species are admitted 
into the flower garden as ornaments, among which is the little Forget-me-not (Myosotis 
palustris) a species of Borragao and an Echium, but the finest of all is the fragrant 
Heliotrope, H. Peruvianum, now so common on the Hills. 
EHRETIA. 
Calyx 5-lobed, lobes valvate in estivation. Corolla salver-shaped, or somewhat wheel-shaped, that 
is, the tube either long, cylindrical, or very shortly sub-campanulate, lobes ovate, imbricating in estivation. 
Stamens 5, filaments awl-shaped, anthers ovate, 2-celled. Style filiform, 2-cleft ; stigmas headed or acute ; 
ovary 4-celled, with a pendulous ovule in each. Berry fleshy or dry, sometimes with 2 two-celled, or 4 
one-celled nuts, or sometimes all united into a single 4-celled nut, seed pendulous; albumen sparing or 
none; embryo axile, radicle cylindrical, about as long as the cotyledons. Shrubs or small trees: leaves 
alternate or fascicled, entire or serrated: flowers usually corymbose: corolla white. 
De Candolle describes 58 species of this genus distributed under four sections. These sections are 
so far dissimilar from each other, that he asks, at the conclusion of his generic character, whether the 
enus might not be divided into as many genera as it now has sections. I certainly cannot answer the 
question, but I do know that the species of some of the sections are very unlike those of the others, and, 
without close scrutiny, such as one would not readily suspect belonged to the same genus. ‘The one here 
given is barely entitled to a place in this book, as I do not recollect of having seen it above Coonoor, 
and [ am not quite certain of having found it even so high as that. It is imtroduced as assisting to 
illustrate the differences above adverted to, in the remarks on the order. The species, if this is indeed 
Roxburgh’s plant, is rather widely distributed as the-specimens from which the species was first named 
were obtained from the subalpine jungles of the Norther Circars. 
Eureria Levis (Roxb.), arborious, glabrous: to -15 inches long, axils of the vein sometimes hairy 
leaves petioled, from oval to oblong lanceolate, acu- or furnished with a gland: flowers subsessile, secund 
) : bs on “humerous circinate spikes: drupes about the 
axillary, dichotomously many-spiked: pedicels and size of a large pepper-corn; red when ripe, 
eeply 5-cleft calyx slightly hairy: corolla rotate, eilgherries, on the eastern slopes, flowering dur- 
lobes reflexed : stamens exserted.—Leaves from 3 to ing the cool season, December and January. 
6 inches long, from 1} to 3 broad; petiols from f 
TOURNIFOURTIA, 
vals genes Erect or scandent, herbs and shrubs ; leaves alternate, petioled, entire, rarely, nearly opposite or 
sessile ~_ spikes with the flowers all turned one way, ebracteate, often cymose ; corolla white or 
