Ehretia.'] BovagtnecB. 195 



Endemic. 



Specimens from Topare without fl. or fruit, and with linear-lanceolate 

 attenuate leaves, appear to be rightly referred to this species. 



\C. Roxburghii, Clarke in Fl. B. Ind. iv. 138, is there given only for 

 ■• Ceylon, Herb. Roxburgh,' but the specimen at Kew (from Roxburgh's 

 H erb.) is almost certainly from Brazil, and I am informed by Mr. Hemsley 

 that it is C. salicifoUa^ Cham.] 



5. C. subcordata. Lam. III. Gen. \. 421 (1791). 



Trim, in Journ. Bot. xxvii. 165. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 140. Rumph. Herb. Amb. ii. t. 75. Seemann, Fl. Viti. 

 t. 34- 



A small tree, young parts pubescent ; 1. 4-6 in., ovate, 

 rounded or subcordate at base, acute, entire, glabrous on both 

 sides, very finely reticulate, petiole i-i^^ in.; fl. on short ped., 

 large, few, corymbs glabrous ; cal. broadly tubular, about \ in., 

 glabrous outside, villous within, segm. irregular, shallow; cor. 

 \-\\ in, diam., tube funnel-shaped, much exceeding cal., lobes 

 usually 6, rounded; stam. 6 exserted ; fruit (not seen) 'com- 

 pletely enveloped in the enlarged persistent cal., about i in., 

 nearly globular but contracted at top.' 



Seacoast ; very rare. As yet only found at Foul Point, Trincomalie 

 Harbour, by Ferguson in 1885, and in all probability a recent importation 

 by the waves or currents. Fl. Dec; orange-yellow. 



Found on shores of nearly all Tropical coasts and islands in the East, 

 and often cultivated. Common in Andaman and Nicobar Is. 



2. EKRETZA, L. 



Shrubs or small trees, 1. alt. or fascicled, fl. small, solitary 



or in corymbs ; cal. -segm. 5 ; cor. rotate or subcampanulate, 



lobes 5, spreading, imbricate; stam. 5, inserted on cor.-tube; 



ov. 2-celled with 2 ovules in each cell, style single bifid or 2 ; 



fruit a drupe with 4 i -seeded pyrenes (sometimes combined 



into one 4-celled one); endosperm scanty. — Sp. 50; 10 in 



Fl. B. Ind. 



Fl. in corymbs ; style I . . ... .I.E. L^viS. 



Fl. solitary; styles 2 2. E. buxifolia. 



I. Zi. laevis, Roxb. Cor. PI. 42 (1798). Addula, Chiru- 

 pulichchul, T. 



Moon Cat. 16. Thw. Enum. 214. C. P. 1879. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 143. Wight, Ic. t. 1382. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 246. 



A shrub or very small tree, bark pale grey, young parts 

 glabrous; 1. 2-3^ in., oval or oblong- or obovate-oval, acute 

 at base, subacute or obtuse or emarginate at apex, entire, 

 glabrous, paler beneath, petiole \-\ in.; fl. numerous, on 



