1. Cobdia.] 81. BORAGINACEJS. [3. Rhabdia. 



Calyx H* campanulate in fruit. Berry ovoid scarcely exceeding 

 the calyx. * 



2. Ehretia, L. 



1. E. laevis, Roxb. Pusi pan, 8. ; Bhairo, Eharw. ; 

 Chamror, datranga, H. 



A small tree with white bark, or ovate glabrous broadly 

 or narrowly ell. or elliptic oblong, rarely obovate, entire 

 leaves usually with small tufts of hair in the axils of the 

 nerves beneath, and small white seaeile or sub-sessile flowera 

 T VF diam. in 2-chotomous and scorpioid pubescent 

 corymbose cymes. 



Frequent, chiefly near river beds. Throughout the area. Fls. Feby.- 

 March with the old leaves, or when leafless or with the young leaves. 

 Fr. March-April . Deciduous Feby. or March. 



• Innovations rusty pubescent or tomentosp glabrescent. L. 4 6" by 

 2-3|" rarely 7" by 4" sometimes oblique, shining acute or acuminate with 

 5-6 pre. of sec. nerves. Base usually cuneate. Petioles $-1". Inflorescence 

 axillary or sub-terminal 2-4" diam. Calyx very small pubescent, 

 lobes longer than the tube, acute. Petals acuminate. Ovary 2-celled' 

 Style long 2-fid. Fr. a sub-globose black drupe with 1-4 1-seededl 

 pyrenes. 



The leaves are used for fodder, the fruit is eaten. 



Var. a A form in Betlah forest (Palamau) has thinly hairy 

 shoots, flowers under \'' diam., and calyx 5-partite nearly to base with 

 lanceolate sepals fa*. Fls. June. 



3. Rhabdia, Mart. 



1. R. lycipides, Mart. Tipa, K. 



A shrub with very tough erect or prostrate and rooting 

 branches, linear or oblong- obi an ceolate leaves TplJ" by f*, 

 and small pink flowers |-|* diam. usually 2-3 at the ends of 

 short lateral branchlets. 



In river and stream beds but not very common, Singbhum, both in 

 Saranda and on the Porahat plateau. Fls. Oct.-Jany. Fr. Dec.-Feby 

 Evergreen. 



Twigs appressed hairy. L. acute and narrowed at the base into a 

 petiole is" long, with very faint 2-4 sec. n. shining or almost silvery 



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