86 BOBAGINAQEM. [Eheetia. 



Leaves serrate . • • • • • > 1. E. acuminata. 



Leaves entire. 

 Leaves ovate to elliptic, up to 5 in. long, 

 glabrous beneath.— A tree . . . . 2. E. lazvis. 



Leaves usually obovate or spathulate, less 

 than 3 in. long, , pubescent beneath.— A 

 shrab 3. E. aspera. 



1. E. acuminata, B. Br. Prod. 497 ; F. B. I. iv, 141 ; Watt E. D. ; 

 Kanjilal For. PL 250 ; Gamble Mm. Ind. Timb 503; Qollett Fl. Siml. 

 330; Brandts Ind. Trees 431. E. serrata, Bovb. ; Fl. Ind. i, 596 ; lioyle 

 III. 303 ; Brandts For. Fl. 33P.— Vern Punyan panddyan (Dehra Dun). 



A medium-3ized tree up to 40 ft. high. Bark thick grey, marked with 

 longitudinal cracks and furrows. Leaves 3-5 in. long, elliptic or ovate- 

 oblong, acuminate, sharply serrate, rather thin, almost glabrous, shin- 

 ing above, petioles slender, ^-f in. long. Flowers white, fragrant, in 

 subsessile fascicles forming large den-ie compound panicles. Calyx- 

 lobes obtuse. Corolla-lobes % in. long, reflexed. Drupe about the size of 

 a small pea, red orange or nearly black when ripe ; pyrenes 2, each 

 2-seeded. 



Dehra Dun and eastwards along the base of the Himalaya in Eohilkhand 

 and N. Oudh. Flowers during March and April. Distrib. Sub- 

 Himalayan tracts westwards to the Indus and eastwards to Bhutan ; 

 also in JS" Bengal, Chittagong, Upper Burma, extending to China, Japan, 

 Malaya and N". Australia. A handsome tree when in flower. The wood, 

 which resembles that of the ash, is used for various purposes. The 

 fruit is eaten, and the leaves, etc., are collected for fodder. 



2. E. laevis. Boxb. Cor- PI. i, 42, t. 53 ; PL Ind. i, 597 ; Boyle III. 30S ; 

 Brindis For. Fl. 340, t. 42 ; Ind. Trees 481 ; F. B. I. iv, 142 ; Watt E. D. ; 

 Kanjilal ti'or. Fl. 250 ; Collett Fl. 8iml. 330 ; Ptain Beng. PL 7 IS ; Cooke 

 Fl. Bomb, ii, 203. E. floribunda, and E. pubescens, Benth in Boyle III. 

 303 — Vern. Chamror,tamboli (Bundelkhand). 



A small tree, 30-10 ft. high, glabrous or more or less pubescent. Bark 

 thick, greyish, smooth. Leaves 2g-5 in. long, elliptic or obovate, often 

 unequal-3ided, entire, subacute acuminate obtuse or emarginate at the 

 apex, cuneate rounded or subtruncate at the base, dark green above, 

 paler beneath, glabrous or nearly so when mature, main lateral nerves 

 6-10, petioles -£-f in. long. Flowers white, sessile or subsessile, in 

 much branched glabrous or pubescent axillary and terminal corymbose 

 peduncled cymes composed of unilateral spikes or racemes, bracts none. 

 Calyx pubescent ; lobe3 ^ in. long, ovate, acute. Corolla rotate, tube 

 xs in. long ; lobes oblong, obtuse. Filaments glabrous ; anthers exsert, 

 not apiculate. Drape almost 2-lobed, £ in. in diam., rather broader 

 than long, red at first, becoming black and wrinkled when dry. 



Abundant in forests along the base of the Himalaya, especially in damp 

 and shady places ; also in Bundelkhand. Flowers before or with the 



