LXXXVII. liORAGlNACE.i;. 203 



scanty ; cotyledons ovate or oblong, not plicate. — Distbib. Warmer 

 parts of the hemispheres, more numerous in the eastern ; species 

 about 50. 



Style bifid less than f-way clown. 



Leaves sometimes reaching 5 in. long, glabrous beneath 1. E. Icevis. 



Leaves not reaching 3 in. long, persistently hairy beneath 2. E. asjjera. 



Styles 2, or 1 style divided ahuost to the base. 



Leaves not exceeding 1 in. long 3. E. buxifolia. 



1. Ehretia laevis, Roxb. Cor. PI. v. 1 (1795) p. 42, t. 56. A saiall 

 tree 25-40 ft. high, glabrous or more or less pubescent ; bark grey, 

 thick, smooth, scaly. Leaves 2^-5 by l|-3 in., very variable, often 

 uusymmetric, elliptic-oblong or obovate, subacute, acuminate, obtuse or 

 emarginate at the apes, eutire, glabrous or nearly so when mattu'e, 

 paler beneath, usually unequally cuneate, but sometimes rounded or 

 almost truncate at the base ; main nerves 6-10 pairs ; petioles |-| in. 

 long, riowers white, sessile or nearly so, in much-branched glabrous 

 or pubescent corymbose axillary and terminal cymes composed of uni- 

 lateral spikes or racemes; peduncles ^h in. long; bracts 0. Calyx 

 yL in. long, pubescent ; segments J^- in. long, ovate, acute. Corolla 

 i in. long; lobes ^ in. long, oblong, obtuse, spreading. Filaments 

 glabrous ; anthers not apiculate. Style stout, more or less deeply bifid ; 

 stigmas capitate. Drupe sub-2-lobed, rather broader than long (about 

 g in. long by i in. broad), red at first, black and wrinkled when dry. 

 EL B. I. v. 4, p. 141 ; Grab. Cat. p. 137 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 170 ; "Wight, 

 Icon. t. 1382 ; Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. t. 246 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 195 ; 

 Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 245 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 

 (1898) p. 169; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 3, p. 203.— Flowers : Jan.- 

 June. Veen. DcUrang. 



Tbroughont the Presidency in deciduous forests. Konkan : Stocks ! ; foot of 

 Matheran Ghat, H. M. Birdwood ; near Malwan, Bal-ell cf- Gibson,. Deccajt : Bhi- 

 mashankar, Gibson ex Graham. S. M. Country: Ramghat, Eitchie, 924!; Belgaum, 

 Ritchie, 924 ! Kanaka : Karwar, Woodroiu ; KAla naddi, Eitchie, 924 ! Gujarat : 

 jungles to the south-east of Surat, Law ex Graham; Dangs, Bhival — Distrib. 

 Throughout India ; Ceylon, Persia, China, Australia. 



Vae. 1. j^onfittnt^a, Brandis, For. Flor. (1874) p. 340. Leaves acumi- 

 nate, softly pubescent and ciliate. C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. 

 v. 4, p. 142. Ehretia floribunda (sp.), Benth. in Eoyle, 111. p. 306. 

 Scarcely deserving of being classed as a variety. 



SiND : Shah-Bilawal, Stocks, 607 ! 

 There is only 1 specimen in Herb. Kew. 



Var. 2. canarensis, C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 4 (1883) 

 p. 142, which is described as having broadly oblong symmetric strongly- 

 nerved leaves narrowed at both ends, cannot, in my opinion, be main- 

 tained as a good variety. The leaves of the plant are very variable, a 

 fact to which Trimen (Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 196) calls attention, and notes 

 that the leaves in moist regions are larger and acuminate. I have 

 found on the same specimen of the so-called variety both symmetric 

 and unsymmetric leaves, so that the chief distinguishing character is 

 not a constant one. The so-called variety is abundant in the moist 

 Konkan and N. Kanara forests. 



