88 BORAGINACE&. [COLDENIA. 



f irom the base or slightly cohering upwards, stigmas capitate. Fruit 

 an almost dry drupe of 4 subconnate 1 -seeded pyrenes. Seeds with 

 a thin testa, albumen scanty or none, cotyledons flat. Species 11, all 

 American except the following which is widely ^distributed through- 

 out the warmer parts of the world. 



C. procumbens, Linn, Sp. PL 125 ; Roxb. PL Ind. i, 443, F. B. I. iv, 

 144; Watt. E. D, ; Prain Beng. PI. 718 ; Coolte Fl. Bomb. ii> 205. Vern. 

 Tripariki. 



A procumbent herb with long' flat trailing stems ; the young parts clothed 

 with white silky hairs. Leaves crisped l-li in. long, obovate-oblong, 

 rounded at the apes, narrowed below into the shaggy petioles ; margins 

 coarsely serrate or subpinnatifid, scabrous and very hairy on both sides. 

 Flowers yellow. Calyx 4-partite, very hairy; segments T ^ in, long, 

 ovate, acute, ciliate. Corolla as long as the calyx lobes 4, oblong, 

 rounded. Stamens 4 hardly exserted Drupe about f in. long, pyra- 

 midal, 4-lobed, muriculate, separating when ripe into four 1-seeded 

 pyrenes. Seeds albuminous. 



A weed in moist ground, especially on the edges of tanks and in rice 

 fields. Flowers September and October. DISTBIB. Throughout the hotter 

 parts of India and in Ceylon, extending to Burma. China, Africa, 

 Australia and America. The fresh leaves are applied to rheumatic 

 swellings. 



4. RHABDIA, Mart. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 144. 



A glabrous or more or less pubescent shrub, branches twiggy. 

 Leaves small, alternate or clustered, entire or obscurely toothed. 

 Flowers small, reddish-lilac, subterminal on short lateral branch- 

 lets. Calyx 5-partite ; lobes lanceolate, acuminate, imbricate. 

 Corolla deeply 5-cleft ; tuba short, subcamparulate ; lobes oblong, 

 imbricate in biid. Stamens 5, on the corolla -tube. Ovary ovoid, 

 2-celled, cells 2-ovuled, or imperfectly 4-oelled with one ovule 

 in each cell, style terminal, stigma capitate or obscurely 2-lobed. 

 Drupe with, 4 crustaceous 1-seeded pyrenes. Seeds oblong, albumen 

 scanty ; cotyledons ovate, not plicate, Species 1, in tropical Asia, 

 Africa and in S. America. 



R, lycioides, Mart. Nov. Gen. and Sp. ii, 137, t. 195 ; F. B. I. iv, 145; 



Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 504 ; Prain Beng. PL 717 : Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 

 205; Brandis Ind. Irees 482. E. viminea, Dalz.; Brandis For. Fl. 841 

 find 577. E. sericea and fluviatilis, Edgew, PI. Banda 41. 



A smalX shrub, 2-6 ft. ihigh ; branches often creeping and rooting ; the 

 young parts pubescent. Leaves subsessile, -1 in. long, spathulate 



