Tourtie/orita.'] BoraginecB. 197 



separating into one-celled beaked pyrenes. — Sp. 11; i in Fl. 



B. Ind. 



C. procumbens, L. Sp. PL 125 (1753). Chirupaddi, T. 



Herm. Mus. 13. Fl. Zeyl. n. 69. Moon Cat. 12. Thw. Enum. 215. 



C. P. 1890. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 144. Pluk. Phytogr. t. 64, f. 6. 



Annual, stems numerous, 3-12 in., prostrate, spreading, 

 shaggy with hair, young parts silky, white; 1. \-\ in., on 

 rather long slender petioles, tapering to base, rounded at 

 apex, coarsely sinuate-dentate with few large teeth, very 

 hairy on both sides except on the veins above; fl. nearly 

 sessile; sep. oval, very hairy; cor.-lobes rounded, spreading. 



Damp sandy ground, especially round tanks in the dry region. Fl. 

 July, August; yellow. 



Throughout the Tropics. 



4. RKABDIA, Mart. 



Shrubby, 1. small, alt., crowded, fl. solitary, terminal; sep. 

 5, narrow, acuminate ; cor. campanulate, lobes 5, deep, im- 

 bricate; stam. 5, inserted at base of cor.-tube; ov. 2-celled, 

 with 2 ovules in each cell (apparently 4-celled), style long, 

 simple, stigma bilobed ; fruit small, containing 4 bony i- 

 seeded pyrenes ; seed with scanty endosperm. — Monotypic. 



R. lycioides, Mart. Nov. Gen. &^ Sp. ii. 137 (1826). 

 J?, viininca^ Thw. Enum. 214. C. P. 3491. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 145. Hook. Ic. PI. t. 823 (/?. viininea). Wight, Ic. t. 

 1885 {Ehretia cuneata). 



A shrub, branches virgate, with numerous short lateral 

 suppressed branchlets, young parts pubescent ; 1. small, 

 numerous, on very short petioles, crowded or fasciculate, 

 about ^- in., linear-lanceolate, acute at base, obtuse at apex, 

 slightly hairy and ciliate ; fl. nearly sessile, solitary (rarely 2 

 or 3), terminating the lat. branchlets ; sep. linear-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, bristly-hairy; cor. f in. diam., tube very short, 

 lobes oblong-oval, obtuse, spreading; fruit ovate-ovoid, shorter 

 than persistent sep., tipped with style. 



Moist low country; very rare. I have only seen the C. P. specimens 

 collected in Ambagamuwa in 1855. Fl. Nov.; pink. 

 Also in Trop. Asia, Africa, and Brazil. 



5. TOURIfEFORTIA., L. 



Trees or shrubs, 1. alt., entire, fl. sessile, on scorpioid 

 branches of terminal paniculate cymes ; sep. 4 or 5 ; cor. 



