Cordia.] LVL BORAGINE^E. 339 



forests north-east of Ajmir (D.B.) ; in Mysore, and probably in other parts of 

 the peninsula. Also in Arabia and Abyssinia. Leaves are renewed in Feb., 

 March. Fl. April-June ; fruit ripens in the ensuing cold season. Coppices 

 well. Attains 30-40 ft., trunk short, 3-5 ft. girth, branches spreading, ex- 

 tremities often drooping, forming a somewhat lax, rounded crown. Twigs 

 cinereous, bark of stem thick, light or dark grey, or brownish, longitudinally 

 furrowed, not much cracked. Heartwood light yellow or light brown, tough, 

 42-52 lb. per cub. ft. Used as fuel, in Sindh for building, and in Cutch for 

 agricultural implements. A gum issues from wounds in the bark. Kopes are 

 made of the bark. The pulp of the drupe is adhesive, hence its name (gond, 

 gum), and is eaten, though insipid. 



2. EHRETIA, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs, often glabrous ; leaves alternate. Flowers in terminal 

 or axillary cymes, with small bracts. Calyx deeply divided into 5 seg- 

 ments, persistent, but not enlarged in fruit. Corolla-tube short or cylin- 

 drical, limb of 5 spreading lobes, imbricate in bud. Stamens generally 

 exserted. Ovary 2-celled with 2 ovules in each cell, or 4-celled, 1 ovule 

 in each cell ; style terminal bifid. Fruit a drupe, the endocarp forming 

 two 2-seeded, or four 1 -seeded pyrenes. Albumen scanty, cotyledons 

 ovate, not plaited. 



Leaves serrate ; flowers in terminal panicles, pyrenes 2 . . 1. E. serrata. 

 Leaves entire ; flowers in terminal and axillary compound corym- 

 bose cymes ; pyrenes 4. 

 Leaves elliptic ; flowers sessile ; corolla not much longer than 



calyx .......... 2. E. Icevis. 



Leaves spathulate ; flowers pedicellate ; corolla twice the 



length of calyx . . . . . . . 3. E. obtusifolia. 



1. E. serrata, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. i. 596 ; Bot. Eeg. t. 1097. Vern. Puna, 

 N.W. India ; Pur an, halthaun, Pb. ; Puny an, punjlawai, panden, koda, 

 N.W.P. ; Kurhuria, arjun, Oudh; Nalshuna, .Nepal. 



A middle-sized tree ; glabrous, only leaves and branches of inflorescence 

 with scattered, short, generally adpressed hairs. Leaves elliptic-oblong, 

 acuminate, sharp-serrate, blade 4-6 in., petiole f in. long ; main lateral 

 nerves arching, 8-10 on either side of midrib. Flowers numerous, white, 

 small, fragrant, sessile, in clusters of 3-5, in large terminal pyramidal 

 panicles. Corolla rotate. Drupe with two 1- or 2-seeded pyrenes, red 

 orange or nearly black when ripe, as large as a small pea. 



Sub - Himalayan tract and outer ranges from near the Indus to Sikkim, 

 ascending to 4000, occasionally to 5500 ft. Cultivated in India, China, the 

 Mauritius, and elsewhere. {E. acuminata, R. Br., Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 387, of 

 Queensland and N.S. Wales, is nearly allied to this species.) Fl. Feb. -April, 

 occasionally July-Dec. ; fr. Nov.-Dec, remains long on the tree. Attains 40 ft., 

 with a short straight trunk 4-5 ft. girth, numerous branches, forming a handsome, 

 shady oval crown, resembling Cordia Myxa in appearance. Bark dark grey oi 

 brown, even, with longitudinal furrows ; when old, with many small ragged, 

 mostly longitudinal cracks, inner substance brown, leathery, fibrous. Wood 



