1 96 Boragine(^. \Coldenia. 



short i^labrous ped., in terminal (rarely axillary) spreading 

 corymbs; cal. pubescent, segm. oblong-oval, subacute; cor. 

 \ in. diam., lobes rounded, spreading; stam. spreading; style 

 simple, shortly bifid; drupe \-\ in., tipped with style, nearly 

 globose, bright scarlet, pyrenes 4, each with i seed. 



Low country; in the dry region, very common ; in the moist country, 

 rare. Fl. April-August ; white. 



Throughout Tropical and Sub-tropical Asia, Polynesia, and Australia. 



Our common plant seems referable to the var. tiinorensis of Fl. B. Ind. ; 

 a var. canadensis is also there given for Cevlon. There is much variety 

 in the appearance of the inflorescence in different specimens, and in the 

 moist retjion the 1. are larger, attaining 5 in., and acuminate. E. ovali- 

 folia, Wight, Ic. t. 1383, appears to be merely a slight variety with more 

 obtuse leaves. It is given in Fl. B. Ind. iv. 143 as from Jaffna (Dyke). 



2. E. buxifolia, Roxb. Cor. PI. \. 42 (1795). Kin-tambala, S. 

 Pakkuvetti, T. 



Moon Cat. 16. Thw. Enum. 214. C. P. 1885. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 144 (not given for Ceylon). Roxb. Cor. PI. i. t. 57. 



A bush, 3-4 ft. high, branches very numerous, slender, 

 divaricate, bark reddish-brown, cracked ; 1. small, ^-i in., 

 very numerous, sessile, fasciculate on suppressed branchlets, 

 obovate-cuneate, acute at base, truncate with a few obtuse 

 crenatures at apex, otherwise entire, slightly rough above 

 with short bristly hairs (with a white spot round each when 

 dry), shining and polished, paler beneath with conspicuous 

 venation ; fl. solitary or 2 together, on very short pubescent 

 ped., axillary; cal. hairy, segm. oblong-spathulate, acute, 

 leafy; cor. campanulate-rotate, j-f in. diam., lobes ovate, 

 subacute, spreading or recurved; stam. erect, exserted ; styles 

 2, longer than stam., undivided ; drupe small, \ in., globose, 

 apiculate, shining, scarlet, pyrene 4-celled. 



Dry and intermediate districts ; common. Fl. Feb.-June; white. 

 Also in S. India, Malaya, Formosa, Philippines. 



3. COI.DZ1MZA,* Z. 



An annual flattened herb, 1. alt., sinuate-dentate, fl. small, 

 axillary, solitary; sep. 4; cor. tubular, lobes 4, much shorter 

 than tube; stam. 4, included in cor.-tube; ov. 2-celled, with 2 

 ovules in each cell, styles 2, short; fruit dry, strongly 4-lobcd, 

 with a .sharp central double beak, hairy, muriculatc, ultimately 



* Commemorates Cadwallader Colden, M.D., who was Lieutenant- 

 Governor of New York in 1761. He was a correspondent of Linniuus, 

 and the first to introduce the Linnean system into America. 



