95. BORAGINACEJS. [4. Rhabdia. 



lanceolate lobes, scarcely accrescent. Petals "l" long-, acuminate. Style 2-M. 

 Drupe black sub-globose ■2-'25" diam. with 1-4 pyrenes. 



The tree is very variable. 



Var. pubesceiis, Clarke. Brauchlets hairy, mature leaves pubescent or hairy. 

 Ramnagar Hills ! 



" Wood tough and durable. Wt. 35 lbs. Growth 5-8 rings per inch of radius," 

 Gamble. It is not much used, but the leaves are used for fodder and the bark is 

 chewed like " pan " and colours the teeth red. The fruit is eaten. 



3. E. buxifolia, Roxh. Syn. E. microphylla, Lanik. 



A small twiggy shrub 3-4 ft. with small subsessile obovate, mostly 

 fascicled, leaves with entire or strongly crenate margins and rounded 

 apex. Fls. small white campanulate "2b" diam., solitaiy or 2-nate on a 

 short axillary peduncle. Drupe •17-"2", globose, with one 4-celled 

 and 4-seeded pyrene. 



Rocky jungles in the south of the Puri district ! Rather rare. Bardwan, " with 

 Carissa bushes," Burkill ! Fl. Oct. -Dec. Fr. Aug. -Nov. 



Twigs strigosely pubescent. L. -5-1" often cuneate, hispid or scabrid above and, 

 when dry, marked with large white cystolith-discs at the base of the bristles, 

 solitary or fascicled on abbreviated shoots, pale beneath, narrowed into a very 

 short liispid -05" petiole. Fls. 1-sexual, on slender peduncles •02--3", style deeply 

 2-fid. 



3. COLDENIA, L. 



Prostrate scabrous herbs with alternate crisped leaves and small 

 axillary sessile or subsessile 4-5-merous flowers or the upper some- 

 times in one-sided spiciform cymes. Corolla-tube broad and short 

 with spreading imbricate lobes. Ovary 2-celled or sub-4-celled. 

 Styles 2 or more or less connate, minutely 2-lobed at apex and again 

 splitting to base in fruit. Fruit nearly dry of 4 sub-connate pyrenes. 

 Testa thin, albumen or scanty, cotyledons flat. 



1. C. procumbens, L. 



A much branched herb with prostrate flattened branches, scabrous- 

 hairy, with ci'isped coarsely serrate or lobulate leaves •b-1" long, 

 densely scabrous or hispid on the top. Flowers very small, sessile. 

 Fruit "lb" pyramidal, of 4 connate 1-seeded pyrenes awned with the 

 hardened style-lobes. 



Very common, waste ground, sunny banks, etc. ! Probably in all districts. FL, 

 Fr. Aug.-Ma3^ Annual. 



Leaves elliptic-obovate, shortly petioled. Fls. scarcely "1" diam. Calyx '1" long 

 with broadly lanceolate almost free sepals. 



4. RHABDIA, Mart. 



Shrub. Leaves small. Flowers small, o-merous, terminal or in 

 few-fld. terminal racemes on short lateral branches. Coi'olla tube 

 campanulate. Ovary 2-celled or sub-4-celled with terminal style and 

 capitate or minutely 2-lobed stigma. Drupe with 4 pyrenes, 



1. R. lycioides, Mart. Tipa, K. ; Janichi, Jamoch, Or. 



A shrub about 2-4 ft. high with tough erect or prostrate branches 

 and linear- or oblong-oblanceolate acute leaves, narrowed at the base. 

 •5-l"2" long by about •2--35" broad, appressed hairy shining or almost 

 silvery beneath. Petiole "05". Fls. •25-'4" diam., pink, on short 



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