a.'] c. BORAGINEJ:. (C. B. Clarke.) 145 



or minutely 2-lobed. Drupe with 4 crustaceous 1-seeded pyrenes. Seeds 

 oblong, albumen thin. 



1. R. lycioides, Mart. Nov. Gen. fy Sp. ii. 137, t. 195 ; DC. Prodr. ix 

 512 ; Fresen. in Mart. Fl. Bras. Fasc. xxii. 58, t. 9, fig. 9. R. viminea, Dalz. $ 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 170 ; Hook. Ic. PI. t. 823 ; Brand. For. FL 341 ; Kurz For. 

 Fl. ii. 211. R. fluvialis, JEdyew. PI. Banda, 51. R. crebrifolia, Miers Contrib. ii. 

 222, t. 84. Rotula aquatica, Lour. Fl. Cochin^ 121; DC. Prodr. ix. 531. 

 Ehretia viminea, Wall. Cat. 906; DC. I.e. 5t)9. E. cuneata, Wight Ic. t. 

 1385. Carey ae sp. Miq. in PI. Hohenack. n. 688. 



INDIA, alt. 0-2500 ft. ; from Kumaon and Assam to CEYLON and Tenasserim, 

 frequent ; especially on gravelly banks flooded by rapid streams. DISTRIB. Tropical 

 S.E. Asia, Africa, and Brazil. 



Height 2-6 ft. Leaves f by I in. Flowers % in. Drupe in., yellow or brown- 

 red, nearly dry. 



5. TOURNEFORTIA, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs, often rambling or subscandent. Leaves alternate, entire. 

 Cymes terminal, rarely lateral or extra-axillary, dicliotomous, Scorpioid ; flowers 

 numerous, dense, sessile or very shortly pedicelled, ebracteate, white or greqnish- 

 yellow. Sepals 5 or 4, lanceolate or ovate. Corolla-tube cylindric (short in 

 T. argentea), naked in the throat ; lobes 5 or 4, small, patent. Stamens 5 or 4, 

 included in the tube, filaments short ; anthers oblong. Ovary 4-celled ; style 

 terminal, short, shortly 2-lobed (in the Indian species) ; ovules 1 in each cell. 

 Drupe small, ovoid, scarcely fleshy, not distinctly separating into 2 or 4 

 pyrenes; pyrenes two 2-celled 2-seeded (in the Indian species). Seed straight or 

 curved, albuminous. DISTRIB. Species 100 ; in the tropics of both hemispheres. 



SECT. 1. IVXallota. An erect, densely silky shrub. Leaves narrowed at 

 the base. Corolla subrotate, tube very short. 



\ 1. T. arg entea, Linn. f. Suppl. 133 ; branches and leaves on both 

 surfaces fulvous-sericeous, leaves obovate-lanceolate, cymes very dense. Roxb, 

 FL Ind. ed. Carey $ Wall. ii. 4; Blume Bijd. 844; DC. Prodr. ix. 514. 

 Humph. Herb. Amboin. iv. t. 55. 



Seashores of CEYLON and the MALAY PENINSULA. NICOBARS ; Kurz. DISTBIB. 

 Malaya, Australia, Mauritius. 



Branchlets thick. Leaves 6 by 2 in., acute or subobtuse ; petiole ill-defined. 

 Peduncles terminal, or from an tipper axil, 1-5 in. ; cymes often forming a panicle s 6 

 in. diam. ; flowers sessile. Sepals ~ in., ovate, densely woolly, ultimately glabres- 

 cent. Corolla-tube hardly as long as the sepals ; lobes ^ in., ovate, crenulate. Stigma 

 subsessile, obscurely 2-lobed. Drupes % in. diam., subglobose. 



SECT. 2. Pittonia. Rambling or subscandent shrubs. Leaves obtuse at 

 the base, distinctly petioled. Corolla 5-merous, narrowly tubular. 



* Drupes shortly pedicelled (all from the Deccari). 



2. T. Heyneana, Wall. Cat. 910 (Heyne's specimen) not of DC.; leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate, corolla-tube - in. T. cymosa, Heyne in Herb. Rottler, not 

 of Linn. 



DECCAN PENINSULA, Heyne ; Nilgherries (near Nadooputtah), Wight. 



Branchlels sparsely scabrous-hairy. Leaves 5 by H in., acuminate, base cuneate or 

 rhomboid, mature sparsely minutely scabrous-hairy on both surfaces ; nerves 7 pair, 

 closely hairy when young ; petiole in. Cymes terminal and extra-axillary, sparsely 

 scabrous-hairy. Calyx-teeth J- in., lanceolate. Drupes % in., or pedicels J in. 

 Wallich appears to have received a small quantity of this species, and to have named 



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