278 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Styles short, shortly 2-lobed ; pyrenes two 2-seedecl ; herbs 



or shrubs . . . . . . . . . . 2. Touenefoetia. 



Styles elongated, dilated at the apex ; pyrenes four 1-seeded, 



much resembling nutlets ; herbs .. .. ..3. Helioteopium. 



Styles elongated, not dilated or annular at the apex, more or 



less bi-partite : — 



Styles 2-fid at the apex ; pyrenes two 2-seeded, or four 



1-seeded ; trees or shrubs . . . . . . . . 4. Ehretia. 



Styles more or less separate, distinct at base and apex, 

 united but easily separable in the middle ; pyrenes four 

 1-seeded, much resembling nutlets ; prostrate herbs . . 5. Coldenia. 



1. CoEDiA, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, rarely sub-opposite, petiolate. 

 Floioers in dichotomous cymes with scorpioid branches, or corymbose 

 or in clusters, ebracteate, polygamous, the ^ fewer than the ^ . Calyx 

 tubular or campanulate, usually with short and often irregular teeth, 

 accrescent in fruit. Corolla funnel- or salver-shaped or campanulate ; 

 the lobes of the limb 4 to 8, spreading or recurved, white or orange. 

 Stamens as many as the lobes ; anthers sagittate or hastate, shortly 

 exserted ; filaments often hairy near the base. Ovary 4-celled, gla- 

 brous ; style terminal, long, bi-partite, the branches again bifid, linear 

 or sub-spathulate, cells of ovary 1-ovuled. Fruit ovoid or ellipsoid^ 

 surrounded by the enlarged calyx ; the putamen bony, with 1 to 4 cells, 

 but one only with a fertile seed. Seed exalbuminous, the cotyledons 

 large and fleshy or thin but always plicate. — Distrib. About 280 

 species, all tropical. 



Flowers about 1'5 in. long .. .. .. ..1. C. suicordata^ 



Flowers less than 5 in. long : — 



Leaves broadly ovate, sub-acute or obtuse, the base often cordate 2. C. Myxa. 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, the base cuneate . . B.C. Griffithii. 



1. CoEDiA suBCOEDATA, Lamk 111. 1899 (1792). A small tree ; young- 

 branches as thick as a goose-quill, glabrous, pale brown when dry. 

 Leaves membranous ; broadly ovate or ovate-rotund, the apex acute, the 

 base broadly rounded or sub-cordate ; both surfaces brown when dry,, 

 the lower paler, harshly and minutely reticulate ; main-nerves 4 or 5 

 pairs, faint on both surfaces when dry; length 3"5 to 6"5 in., breadth 

 2-5 to 4 in. ; petiole 1-25 to 2 in. Corymbs lateral, few-flowered, 

 shorter than the leaves, glaberulous ; pedicels "25 in. long. Calyx 

 cylindric, slightly widening towards the mouth, -4 in. long and nearly 

 •2 in. wide at the middle, glabrous ; the limb with 3 broad triangular 

 teeth. Corolla about 1'3 in. long, orange or reddish, funnel-shaped ; 

 lobes about 6, broad, spreading, as long as the tube. Stamens 6. 



