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In all the provinces, by waysides, not common. — Distkib. From 

 "W. Asia through India to x\ustralia. 



4. Eheetia, Linn. 



Glabrous or scabrous shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, entire or 

 dentate. Flowers small, usually white, in axillary or terminal corymbs 

 or panicles, rarely on 1-flowered axillary peduncles. Calyx small, 

 5-partite. Corolla with short cylindric tube ; the Umb with 5 obtuse 

 imbricate spreading lobes. Staynens 5, inserted on the tube, exserted, 

 rarely included, ovate or oblong. Ovary 2-celled, the cells bi-ovulate ; 

 sometimes imperfectly 4-celled and the cells with solitary ovules ; style 

 terminal, cylindric, bifid or bi-partite ; stigmas small, capitate or 

 clavate. Drupe small, usually globose, 4-seeded or (by suppression) 

 1-3-seeded ; usually dividing into 2 bilocular or into 4 unilocular, 

 often compressed pyrenes. Seeds straight, with little albumen and thin 

 testa. — DiSTEiB. About 55 species, all tropical, chiefly in the Old 

 World. 



Leaves ovate to elliptic-oblong, shortly acuminate, with about 5 pairs 



of main-nerves . . . . . . . . . . 1. E. lavis. 



Leaves obovate or obovate-elliptic, obtuse retuse or sub-acute, with 



7 or 8 pairs of main-nerves . . . . . . . . 2. E. parallela. 



1. Eheetia ljevis, Eoxb. Cor. PI. I. 42, t. 55 ; var. timorensis, 

 Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 142 (1883). A small tree ; young 

 branches rusty-puberulous, becoming ultimately glabrous, dark coloured 

 when dry. Leaves thinly coriaceous ; ovate to elliptic-oblong, shortly 

 acuminate, the base shghtly cuneate or sometimes rounded ; both sur- 

 faces glabrous, brown when dry, the lower paler and reticulate ; main- 

 nerves about 5 pairs, rather straight, ascending slightly, thin but 

 prominent on the lower surface like the midrib ; length 2-5 to 5 in., 

 breadth 1-25 to 2-25 in. ; petioles about "4 in. Cymes axillary and ter- 

 minal, shorter than the leaves, corymbose, puberulous ; the ultimate 

 branches scorpioid. Flowers small, numerous, sessile. Calyx less 

 than -1 in. long, its mouth with 5 oblong lobes. Corolla-tube -1 in. 

 long ; the lobes 5, shorter and spreading. Anthers exserted. Fruit 

 when 4-seeded about 2 in. in diam., smaller when 2-seeded, depressed- 

 globose, ribbed ; pyrenes 4 or 2, sometimes only 1, each with a single 

 seed ; the persistent calyx much shorter than the fruit, its lobes acumi- 

 nate. E. timorensis, Dene, in Nouv. Ann. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. III. 395 ; 

 DC. Prod. IX. 505. F. philipinnensis, DC. I.e. 504. E. Icevis, Benth. 

 Fl. Austral. IT. 389. 



Malacca: 2Iaingay (K.D.) 1164; Pddley 3302. Peeak : Scortechini 



