718 BENGAL PLANTS. [Ehretia. 
1311, Enretia Levis Roxb.; F. 1. i. 597; F. B. I. iv. 141; BE. D. 
E. 25. 
Orissa ; Chota Nagpur; Behar. 
A tree, 30-40 feet high. 
1311/2. Var. rLonrBUNDA Brand.; F. B. I. iv. 142. 
Western Behar. 
A tree, 30-40 feet high. 
609. Coldenia Linn. 
Prostrate, scabrid herbs; leaves alternate, crisped. Flowers 
white, axillary, sessile or subsessile, sometimes the upper in a 
unilateral raceme or spike, with leafy bracts. Sepals connate in a 
4—5-partite calyx ; lobes narrow. Petals 4 or 5, connate in a short, 
tubular corolla; throat naked or with 4-5 scales; lobes spreading, 
imbricate. Stamens 4 or 5, adnate to corolla-tube, included ; fila- 
ments short; anthers ovate. Carpels connate in an ovoid ovary, ~ 
2-celled or imperfectly 4-celled; ovules 4, 2 in each cell or solitary 
in each imperfect chamber ; style terminal, 2-fid. Frwit an almost 
dry drupe of 4 subconnate, 1-seeded pyrenes, sometimes one or 
more abortive. Seeds with thin testa; albumen 0 or very scanty ; 
cotyledons flat. 
1312. CoLDENIA PROCUMBENS Kikon, F. I. i. 448; F. B. I. iv. 141; 
07. 
In most of the pro 
A flatly prostrate, ciisiees annual, Vernac. Tripunkhi. 
610. Bothriospermum Bunge. 
Annual or biennial, weak, strigose or hirsute herbs; leaves alter- 
nate, ovate or lanceolate. Flowers small, blue or white, axillary, 
pret the uppermost passing into a bracteate raceme. Sepals 
connate in a 5-partite calyx; lobes narrow, hardly accrescent. 
Petals 5, connate in a short-tubed corolla; throat with 5 scales; 
lobes obtuse, spreading, in bud imbricate. Stamens 5, included, 
ate to corolla-tube; filaments very short; anthers ovate, 
obtuse. nines connate in deeply 4-lobed corolla ; lobes distinct, 
1 : 
inner tine large, hollow, and smooth, with an inflexed margin; 
carpophore oblong. Seeds somewhat incurved ; cotyledons flat. 
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