Stnjchnos.] GO. LONGANIACE.E. 143 



S. potatorum, Linn. f. Suppl. 148 ; V]. Br. I. 4. 90 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. F\. 156; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. IfiS ; Brandis For. Fl. 317. Clearing 

 nut tree. Nennali, Vern. In the Southern Maratba Country, Belgaum 

 district and in other parts of the presidency in dry forests. Fl. hot 

 season. Fr. C.S. 



Order G1. BORAGINEJE. 



Herbs, shrubs or trees. Leaves usually alternate, entire. Inflorescence 

 definite ; flowers in scorpioid cymes, rarely solitary and axillary. 

 Calyx inferior, teeth 4-G, valvate in bud, usually persistent in 

 fruit. Corolla gamopetalous, often with scales in the throat 

 lobes as many as those of the calyx. Stamens inserted in the 

 corolla-tube, as many as the corolla-lobes and alternate with them. 

 Ovary free, of 2 carpels, 2-ovuled, or 4-1-ovuled ; style terminal or 

 from between the ovary-lobes. Fruit drupaceous or dividino- into 

 2-4-nutlets. Albumen or scanty. 



Style twice bifurcate. Drupe 4-1 -seeded ... ... Coedia. 



.Style 2-fid. ... ... ... ... ... Ehretia. 



Stjle 1 ... ... ... .. ... Rhabdia. 



CORDIA, L. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate^ petioled. Flowers often poly- 

 gamous in terminal or leaf opposed cymes, ebracteate. Calyx tubular 

 or campanulate, teeth short, in fruit accrescent. Corolla funnel- 

 shaped ; lobes 4-8, Stamens 4-8, filaments often hairy at the base. 

 Ovary 4-celled, glabrous ; style terminal, twice bipartite. Drupe 

 ovoid, endocarp bony, often perforated at the apex, cells 4 or fewer 

 by abortion. Albumen 0. 



Leaves alternate, 3-5-nerved at the base, without 



white discs. 

 Leaves ovate, rough, glabrous, not tomentose be- 

 neath. Cymes lax, glabrous. Calyx not ribbed ... C 3fyxa. 

 Leaves white tomentose beneath, glabrous above. 



Cymes lax, glabrous. Calyx not ribbed ... ... C. Wallichii. 



Leaves with white discs above, scabrous, beneath 



villous or glabresoent. Cymes small, tomentose ... C, monoica. 

 Lea Fes feather veined, small, narrow, scabrous or 



glabrescent above, glabrescent beneath. Berry 



small ... ... ... ... ... c. Rothil. 



Leaves broad, cordate, ovate, densely tomentose 



beneath, feather veined or faintly 3-5 nerved at 



the base. Cymes short tomentose. Calyx ribbed. 



Berry large ... ... ... ... C, Madeodii. 



Leaves scabrid above with white discs, hard 



tomentose beneath, margin repand, base cuneate. 



Cymes tomentose ... .. .., ... C. fnlvosa. 



I have followed Brandis and others in uniting C. Mi/xa, L., and 

 C. obliqtia, Willd. G. WaJlichii, G-. Don, I hav^ kept distinct from 

 C. oblini(,a, Willd., of which species it is made a variety in the Fl 

 Br. I. 



