COBDIA.] BOEAGINACE3Z. 85 



ing, as long as the tufce. Qrupe ^-f ijn. lorjg, ellipsoid, acute, supported 

 by the saucer-shaped or campanulate strongly ribbed accrescent calyx.- 



Sub-Himalayan forests from Dehra Dun and the Siwalik range t east wards 

 to the Sarda River in N. Oudh. Flowers in March and April with the 

 young leaves, and the fruit ripens in October. DISTRIB. Punjab, 

 westwards as far as Jhelum, but not common. The wood is strong and 

 hard and is used for wheels and well-work, and also for furniture. The 

 gelatinous fruit is eaten, and is regarded as superior to that of 0. Myva. 



5, C, Rothii, Roem. and Sch. Syst. tv, 798 ; Brandia For. Fl. 338 ; Ind. 

 Trees 480; F. B.I.iv,138; WattE.D.; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 501; 

 Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 202. C. augustifolia, tioxb. FL Ind. i, 595 ; lioyle III. 

 306. -Yern. Gondi, gondni. 



A small tree, about 30 ft. high, with greyish deeply furrowed bark. Leaves 

 nearly or quite opposite, 2--4 in. long, euneate-oblong, entire, apex, 

 rounded, rough above and more or less pubescent beneath; nerves 

 pinnate, 4-6 pairs, rather obscure ; petioles in. Flowers small, white, 

 usually 4randrous, arranged in lax terminal or axillary pedunculate 

 cymes ; peduncles |-1 in. long, pedicels short. Calyco $ in. long, minutely 



Eubescent outside, silky within j lobes obtuse, small. Corolla % in. 

 :>ng ; lobes usually 4, as long as the tube, oblong, obtuse, reflexed. 

 Filaments glabrous. Drupe about -i in. long, usually 1-seeded, ovoid, 

 mucronate, striate, yellow or reddish-brown when ripe. 



Found wild in the Herwara and Bundelkhand districts, planted or self- 

 sown in other places within the area. Flowers April June and the 

 fruit ripens during the following cold season. DISTRIB. In the 

 drier parts of India from the Punjab, Sind and Rajputana to Gujarat 

 and the Deccan, also in the dry region of Ceylon, extending to Arabia 

 and Abyssinia. The wood is valued for building and for agricultural 

 implements, the bark yields a gum, the inner bark is made into ropes, 

 and the pulp of the fruit is eaten. 



. EHRETIA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind, iv., 141, 



Shrubs or trees, scabrous or glabrous. Leaves alternate. Flowers 

 small, usually white, in terminal or axillary corymbose or panicled 

 cymes, rarely on ] -flowered axillary peduncles. Calyx small, 5- 

 partite. Corolla with a *hort cylindrical tube ; lobes 6, spreading or 

 reflexed, imbricate in bud. Stamens 5, on the corolla-tube ; anthers 

 usually exserted. Ovary 2-oelled, ovules 2 in each cell ; style 

 terminal, cylindric, bificf or bipartite or styles 2 ; stigmas small, 

 capitate. Fruit a small subglobose drupe, with 4 or (by suppression) 

 3-1 seeds ; endooarp hard, consisting of one 4-celled or two 2-celled 

 or four 1-celled pyrenes. Seeds straight, albumen scanty, Species 

 about 55, in tropical and subtropical regions chiefly of the Old World 



