144 c. BORAGINE^. (C. B. Clarke.) [Ehretia. 



dry longitudinally ribbed ; pyrenes 4, compressed, lunate, corrugated without, occupy- 

 ing the periphery of the drupe, the centre (in the dried drupe) hollow, occupied by 

 the shrivelled fleshy tissue; pyrenes 1-seeded. Perhaps a small-flowered form of 

 the Hong-Kong E. longiflora (Champ, in Hook. Kew Journ. v. 58), which agrees ex* 

 actly as to the fruit and leaves, but has the corolla-tube ^ in. long. 



SECT. II. Carmona. Styles 2, undivided (1 sometimes suppressed), or 1 

 sub-2-partite. 



10. E. buxifolia, Roxb. Cor. PL i. 42, t. 57, and in Fl. Ind. ed Carey $ 

 Wall. ii. 343 ; leaves small fascicled obovate entire or lobed, peduncles axillary 

 1- (or few-) flowered. Wall. Cat. 905 ; DC. Prodr. ix. 509 ; Bedd. For. Man. 

 167. E. lieterophylla, Spreng. Syst. i. 648; A. DC. I.e. E. microphylla, 

 Lamk. III. ii. 425. Cordia retusa, Vahl Symb. ii. 42. C. eoromandeliana, 

 Koenig fy Retz ms. Carmona lieterophylla, Cav. Ic. v. 23, t. 438. 



DECCAN PENINSTJIA; in dry jungles, Wight, Dalzell, &c. DLSTRIB. Malaya to 

 Formosa and the Philippines, 



A shrub. Leaves 1 by ^ in., obtuse, very scabrous, often 3-lobed towards the apex, 

 attenuated at the base, subsessile. Peduncles 0-f in., hairy. Calyx-lobes in., lanceo- 

 late-linear. Corolla % in., white, campanulate ; lobes short, ovate. Filaments very 

 short. Drupe^ in. diam., globose; pyrene 1, 4-seeded; without any cavities in the 

 drupdS- examined ; with 6-8 cavities (A. DC.). 



EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



E. MOIXIS, Wan. Cat. 7011; DC. Prodr. ix. 511, is Mappia ovata, Mier*, 

 v. i. p. 509. 



3. COX.DENXA, Linn. 



Prostrate, scabrous herbs. Leaves alternate, crisped. Floivers axillary, 

 sessile (or nearly so), the upper sometimes in a one-sided leafy spike, white. 

 Sepals 4-5, narrow. CoroZZa-tube short, lobes 4-5, imbricated in the bud, 

 patent. Stamens 4-5, on the corolla-tube ; anthers ovate. Ovary 2-celled with 

 2 ovules in each cell, or sub-4-celled with solitary ovules ; style terminal, bifid. 

 Drupe (nearly dry) of 4, subconnate, 1-seeded, pyrenes. Testa of the seed thin ; 

 albumen 0, or scanty ; cotyledons flat. Species 10 American, and the fol- 

 lowing. 



1. C. procumbens, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. ix. 558 ; procumbent, scabrous- 

 hairy, leaves elliptic-obovate coarsely serrate or subpinnatifid, pyrenes subcon- 

 nate into an acute 4-ribbed pyramid. Gaertn. Fruct. i. 329, t. 68 ; Lamk. III. 

 t. 89; Roxl.FLInd. i. 448; Wall. Cat. 942; Dak. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 171. 

 Lobophyllum tetrandrum, F. Muett. in Hook. Kew Journ. ix. 21. "VValtheria 

 microphylla, Miq. in. PI. Hohenack. n. 87 b. not of Cav. 



Throughout tropical INDIA, a weed. DISTRIB. Asia, Africa, Australia, America. 



Annual, usually quite flat. Leaves 1-1^ in. Flowers f in. Pyrenes in. Seeds 

 albuminous. 



4, RHABDXA, Mart. 



A. shrub; branches twiggy. Leaves small, alternate or clustered, linear- 

 oblong, entire or toothed. Flowers small ; racemes very small, few-fid., sub- 

 terminal on short lateral branches. Sepals 5, lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla 

 pink-purple , tube short, campanulate ; lobes oblong, imbricate in the bud. 

 Stamens 5, on the corolla-tube ; anthers oblong or ovate. Ovary 2-celled, cells 

 2-ovuled, or sub-4-celled with cells 1-ovuled ; style terminal, stigma capitate 



