Ehbetia.] BO RAG IN AC EJE. 87 



young leaves from February to April. Distrib. In deciduous forests 

 throughout India and in Ceylon, ascending to 3.000 ft. on the ]lim;il;iya ; 

 also in Baluchistan. Persia, China and Australia. The grey or brownish- 

 grey wood is tough and durable and is used fur agricultural implements 

 and' for building purposes. The insipid fruit also the inner larh are eaten 

 during famine times, and the leaves afford good fodder. The leaves 

 are said to be employed in N. Oudh as a substitute for -pan. In the 

 Flora of Brit. India descriptions of five varieties or forms of this 

 polymorphous species are given. E. floribuvda has acuminate and 

 softly pubescent and ciliate leaves, and the flowers are arranged in 

 large axillary corymbs towards the ends of the branches, often forming 

 quasi-panicles 6 in. in diam. In K. pubescens, which is a more than 

 usually pubescent form, the leaves (even when mature) are softly hairy 

 beneath and scabrous and often hairy above, thus indicating an approach 

 to E. aspera of Roxburgh. 



3. E. aspera, Xoxb. Cor. PI. i, 41, f. 55 ; FL Ind. i, 598, Cooke ii, 204. 

 E. obtusifolia, Bochit. ; Brand, For. Fl. 340 ; Ind. Trees 481 ; Clarice in F. 

 B. I- if, 142 ; Gamble Man- Ind. Timb. 50-1 ; E. lsevis, var. aspera, Clarke 

 in F. B. I. l.c. 



A shrub, usually with short terete glabrous branches which are downy 

 when young. Leaves variable, £-2^ in. long, obovate spathulate or 

 elliptic-oblong, rounded retuse or shortly acuminate at the apex, 

 Bcabrous and sometimes slightly hairy on the upper surface, persistently 

 hairy, petioles J-J in. long. Flowers white or blueish, in dense apparent- 

 ly terminal corymbose cymes, afterwards becoming paniculate lax and 

 lateral. Calyx T 'p in. long, hairy outside ; lobes V* in. long, ovate-oblong, 

 subacute, ciliate. C or oi la-tube longer than the calyx ; lobes about 

 equalling the tube, oblong, obtuse. Ovary ovoid, style bifid from 

 below the middle, stigma capitate. Drupe 5 in. across, depressed- 

 globose, smooth, containing usually 4 bony pyrenes. 



Merwara in Rajputana and in Kheri district of N. Oudh. Flowers March" 

 Way. Distrib. Punjab, on the Salt Eange, and in the Deccan country 

 of Bombay, extending to' the drier parts of S. India and Upper Burma ; 

 also in Baluchistan, Afghanistan and Abyssinia. The wood resembles 

 that of B. Iceris. 



3. COLDENIA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 144. 



FrancLinp diffuse or front Tate scabrons heibs. Leavet alternate, 

 smal], often crisped or ] licate. Flcuers white or yell* w, axillary, 

 senile or 7 turly k-, the uj per ( f tt n in (re-siccd spikes. Calyx 

 4-5-t/nrtite, lobes lanceolate or hi ef»r. Corolla-tube short, funnel- 

 shaped ; lotes 4-5, nprtadinp, imbricate in bud. Stamens 4-6, on the 

 corolla-tube, included. Ovary 2-oe!led, -w ith two ovules in each cell, 

 or 4-celled and with a siDgle^ ovule in each cell, styles 2, district 



