1. CoRDiA.] 95. BORAGINACE.E. 



being entire ; it is also less acuminate than either. The petioles are much shorter 

 than in most C. Macleodii, and in many respects it resembles C. vestifn. M.f. d- T., 

 a tree previously only known in the Siwaliks and Lower Western Himalaj^as. 



2. EHRETIA, L. 



Trees or shrubs, with the blaze (as in Cordia) nearly always pale 

 rapidly turning brown on exposure to the air. Flowers small white 

 in axillary or terminal often panicled cymes, rarely solitary. Calyx 

 sub-5-partite. Corolla rotate or sub-salver-shaped, petals 5. Stamens 

 5 on the tube, anthers ovate or oblong exsert. Ovary 2-celled with 

 terminal 2-fid or 2 -partite style and small capitate stigmas. Fruit a 

 drupe with one 4-celled, two 2-celled or four 1-celled pyrenes, cells, or 

 pyrenes sometimes reduced to one by suppression, 1-seeded. Seeds 

 straight, testa thin, albumen scanty. 



A. Trees. Fls. cymose and panicled :— 



Leaves serrate 1. acuminata. 



Leaves entire 2. lavis. 



B. Shrub. Fls. sub-solitary 3. buxifolia. 



1. E. acuminata, Br. Lahichan, Dantranga (tooth-reddener), if. 



A small or m.s. tree Avith elliptic or ell.-oblong, acute or acuminate, 

 sharply serrate leaves 3-5"5" long with a petiole -75-1 -5" long. 

 Flowers '15" diam. clustered on the branches of dense pyramidal 

 pubescent panicles 3-6" long. Drupes ■12-11" diam., short ellipsoid, 

 with 2 pyrenes, 4-seeded. 



Purneah ! Fl. March-April. Fr. Jmie-July. More or less deciduous in Dec. or 

 Jan. but flowers with the leaves. 



Attains 4 ft. girth with pale-grey flaking bark and hard yellowish blaze in old 

 trees. L. glabrous or minutely hispidulous above, teeth with incurved points when 

 young, sec. n. strong 6-8 forked above and not reaching the margin, other nerves 

 inconspicuous. Calyx -05" long, ciliate. Cor.-tube very short, lobes soon reflexed, 

 broadly oblong. Style shortly 2-fid. 



This seems to be the "Ehretia sp." to which Hamilion applies the above 

 vernacular names and states that it is used for posts, beams and chests. Judging 

 from the name " Dantranga " the bark is chewed as in the next species. 



2. E. IsBYis, Roxh. Pusi-pan, S. ; Bhairo, Hardi, Kharw. ; Chamror, 



Dantranga, H. ; Dokke, Gond. ; Tambalu, Mosonia, Or. 

 A small or m.s. tree with Avhite bark and ovate, broadly or narrowly 

 elliptic or rarely obovate entire leaves usually only 3-4" at the time 

 of flowering, often attaining 7" by 4" when matvire, shining above and 

 usually glabrous except for small tufts of hair in the axils of the 

 nerves beneath. Petiole •5-1-2" long. Fls. •3--4" diam. in dicho- 

 tomous scorpioid cymes 2-4" diam. which are usually borne laterally 

 on the bare branches, more rarely terminal on the young shoots. 



Northern Champaran ! Purneah, J/a/HiZ/ow. Gaya ! Throughout Chota Nagpur, 

 usually on river banks ! Gangpur ! S.P. ! Puri ! Angul ! Kalahandi, along the 

 Tel River, Grieve. No dou1)t therefore in all districts, but nowhere very common, 

 Fl. Feb. -March, or in some forms up to June, with the old falling leaves or when 

 quite leafless or with the young leaves. Fr. usually April-May. 



Bark pale grey or white, blaze white with small brown streaks, turning brown. 

 Innovations usually rusty pubescent or tomentose. L. from glabrous, even when 

 young (exc, the nerve axils) to permanently pubescent, sometimes oblique, base 

 usually cuneate on the petiole, apex acute or shortly acutely or obtusely acuminate, 

 sec. n.' 5-7 becoming forked and reticulate before reaching the margin. Fls. sessile 

 or pedicelled. Calyx "05" long, usually pubescent, with lanceolate or oblong- 



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