142 c. BORAGHXE2E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Ehretia.. 



505 ; Wight Ic. t. 1382 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 170 : Bedd. Fl Sylv. t. 246 ; 

 Kurz For. FL ii. 210 ; Brand. For. FL 340, t. 42. E. punctata, Roth Nov. Sp. 

 126. E. affinis, Watt. Cat. 900. E. dichotoma, Rottl. in Wall. Cat. 904, 

 probably of Blume also. Beurreria laevis and punctata, G. Don Gen. Syst. 

 iv. 390. 



Throughout INDIA in tropical and subtropical regions, common. DISTRIB. From 

 Persia to China, Australia and Polynesia, the allied Tropical African species are 

 perhaps only geographical forms. 



A tree 30-40 feet, or a shrub ; branchlets glabrous, or rusty-pubescent, or sparsely 

 laxly hirsute. Leaves 5 by 2j in., unsymmetric, rather thin in texture, young glabrous 

 softly hairy or densely tomentose, mature glabrescent ; petiole in. Corymbs 3 in. 

 lax, glabrous or usually pubescent or rusty, ultimate branches long recurred with 

 sessile fruits. Calyx-lobes ~ in., oblong, in fruit'ovate. Corollas-tube i in,, lobes ^ in. 

 spreading. Anthers exsert. Drupe (when perfecting 4 seeds) | in. diam., depressed 

 globose, when dry distinctly 4-ribbed, pyrenes 4 each 1 -seeded ; on one corymb are 

 usually seen drupes perfecting 1, 2, 3, or 4 seeds. All authors previous to Brandis 

 have kept this species distinct, describing it as absolutely glabrous ; it is however 

 nearly always manifestly hairy, and the indumentum is rusty, pubescent, ciliate, 

 hirsute or tomentose at least in the innovations. 



VAR. floribunda, Brand. For. FL 340 ; innovations hairy or glabrous, corymbs 

 large axillary or collected towards the ends of the branches often forming quasi- 

 panicles 6 in. diam. E. floribunda, Benth. in Eoyle III. 306; DC. Prodr. ix. 507; 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 124. E. Cutranga, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 7012. Punjab toBehar. 

 Distrib. Cabul. 



VAB. pubescens ; branchlets hairy, mature leaves softly hairy beneath or on both 

 surfaces. E. pubescens, Benth. in Eoyle 111. 306; DC. Prodr. ix. 597. Throughout 

 India. 



VAB. timorensis ; glabrous or the innovations and corymbs rusty-pubescent, leaves 

 broadly oblong or somewhat obovate acuminate, corymbs axillary and terminal. E. 

 timorensis, Dene, in Nouv. Ann. Mus. d"Hist. Nat. iii. 395 ; DC. Prodr. ix. 505. E. 

 philippensis, A. DC. Prodr. ix. 504. E. laevis, type Benth. FL Austral, iv. 389. Malay 

 Peninsula. Distrib. Malaya, Australia. Leaves often 6 in., usually larger and more 

 acuminate than in the Indian E. lavis, also drying very black and usually symmetric 

 or nearly so. As to the fruit, in E. Icevis type it is often sub-2-pyrenous, the pyrenes 

 only separating into 4 ultimately or with difficulty. 



VAB. canarensis ; glabrous or nearly so, leaves broadly oblong symmetric nar- 

 rowed at both ends, mature glabrous above rugose with impressed nerves scabrous 

 beneath. E. canarensis, Miq. in PL Hohenack. n. 285. E. Championi, Wight $ 

 Grardn. ms. W. Deccan Peninsula and Ceylon. The common Ehretia of the Nil- 

 ghiris (alt. 3-6000 feet) and. other Deccan Mts. It has been regarded as a distinct 

 species, being readily distinguished by the symmetric strong-nerved leaves. 



VAB. aspera ; leaves small obtuse mature hairy beneath. E. aspera, Eoxb. Cor. 

 PL i. 41, t. 55, and in FL Ind. ed. Carey $ Wall. ii. 342 ; Wall. Cat. 902 ; DC. Prodr. 

 ix. 507; Bedd. For. Man. 166; Brand. For. Fl. 340; Kurz For. FL ii. 209. E. 

 tomentosa, Both Nov. Sp. 126, not of Lunik. E. Heynii, Roem. # Sch. Syst. iv. 532. 

 Beurreria aspera, Gr. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 390. Assam. Described from Koxburgh's 

 example in Herb. Wallich (which agrees with his Ic. Ined. in Herb. Kew), on which 

 the largest leaves are If by f in., scabrous above, persistently hairy beneath. None 

 of the E. aspera (except from E. Bengal) agrees with this exactly, the E. aspera of 

 Kurz, Dalzell, &c., having larger leaves and resembling E. Icevis, var. pubescens. 

 "Wight's E. aspera includes an example absolutely glabrous, the young leaves and 

 calyx shining glabrous ; no example of E. Ifevis type is so glabrous. A very hairy 

 obtuse-leaved example collected at Arcot by Griffith has the calyx-lobes narrowly 

 oblong and the style deeply bifid. 



4. E. obtusifolia. Hochst.; A. DC. Prodr. ix. 507; leaves obovate- 

 oblong obtuse mature hairy, flowers as of JE. Icevis but rather larger. Brand. 



