Ehretia.] BORAGINE4. 717 
607. Rhabdia Mart. 
A shrub, with tough, twiggy branches ; leaves a alternate or 
clustered, linear- -oblong, entire or toothed. Flowers small, in few 
flowered, subterminal or lateral, short racemes. Sepals slightly 
connate below in a 5-partite calyx; lobes lanceolate, acuminate. 
Petals 5, connate in a shortly campanulate, pinkish- purple corolla; 
lobes oblong, imbricate. Stamens 5, adnate to corolla-tube ; fila- 
ments filiform ; anthers oblong or ovate. Carpels connate in a 
2-celled ovary ; ovules 2 in each cell, or sometimes the cell more 
or less completely divided into two 1-ovuled nt style 
terminal; stigma capitate or faintly 2-lobed. F'rw with 
4 erustaceous, 1-seeded pyrenes. Seeds oblong ; besintes scanty. 
09. Rwappza tycrorpEs Mart. ; F. B. I. iv. 145. 
Chota Nagpur; N. Hurigal : on gravel banks in rivers. 
A shrub, with twiggy branches. 
608. Ehretia Linn. 
Shrubs or trees, glabrous or scabrid; leaves alternate. Flowers 
small, white, in axillary or terminal panicles or corymbs, rarely on 
1-flowered, axillary peduncles. Sepals para. in a small, 5-par- 
tite calyx; lobes narrow open, or wider imbricate. Petals 5, con- 
nate in a shortly tubular or cylindric corolla; lobes imbricate, 
Spreading or reflexed. Stamens 5, adnate to corolla-tube, usually 
exserted; filaments filiform; anthers ovate or oblong. Carpels 
connate in a 2-celled ovary ; ovules 2 in each cell; style terminal, 
cylindric, 2-fid or 2- -partite ; stigmas small, capitate. Fruit a 
small, subglobose drupe, with 4 or, by suppression, 3-1 seeds ; 
ak 4 bee 1-seeded, or 2 each 2-seeded, or 1 with 4 seeds, 1 
f the pyrenes or cells frequently suppressed. Seeds 
shniehe aed thin; albumen scanty. 
Leaves serrate ; flowers in terminal, dense, compound panicles 
acuminata, 
Leaves quite entire ; flowers i sign: corymbs :— 
Corymbs mostly apg across 
Corymbs a axillary, bai ak oie subpaniculate soe ends of 
branches, 6 j in. acro levis var. floribunda. 
1310. Eureria acuminata R. cg ; F. B. 1. iv. 141; E, D. £. 20. 
4. serrata Roxb.; F. Li 
N. Bengal; . 
A tree, 40 feet high. Hind. Panyan; Beng. Kula 
levis. 
