Cordia] LXXVI. BORAGINACE^ 479 



yellowish-brown, pink or nearly black, shining, but minutely rugose, endo- 

 carp rugose, very hard, in a sweetish viscid, almost transparent pulp. 



Subhimalayan tract and outer ranges, ascending to 5,000 ft. Punjab Salt range. 

 Kajputana. Central India and Centr. Prov. Western Peninsula. Khasi hills. 

 Burma. Largely cultivated in gardens and avenues. Fl. March-May. Fr. and 

 kernel eaten, the unripe fr. as a vegetable and pickled. — Ceylon chiefly in the dry 

 region. Malay Penins. and Archip. China. Formosa. Cultivated and possibly indi- 

 genous in Western Asia. 2. A species mentioned by Kurz F. Fl. ii. 208 [Hmaikya, 

 Burm.). Pegu. A small tree. 1. elliptic, acuminate, a few large teeth in the upper 

 half, blade 5-10. pet. 1-2 J in. long, short hairs on the underside, chiefly along nerves, 

 upperside rough with minute cystolith cells, fl. unknown. L. greatly prized as cover- 

 ing leaf of the Burmese cheroots. 



3. C. Wallichii, G. Don: Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 245: Brandis F. Fl. 337: Talbot List 

 ed. ii. 243; probably C. ohliqua of Wight's Ic. t. 1378. — Syn. C. obliqua, Willd., 

 var. Wallichii, C. B. Clarke in. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 137: Sepitlan, Phinn. Guz. 

 Western Peninsula in deciduous forest. A middle-sized tree, 1. entire or nearly so, 

 densely and softly tomentose beneath with stellate hairs, otherwise similar to 1, of 

 which it mav possiblv be a tomentose variety. 4. C. Lowriana, sp. nova. Merwara 

 (Gundi) (D. B. Dec. 1878: A. F. Lowrie Oct. 1884: Duthie Xo. 4754. Jan. 1886). A 

 shrub or small tree, heartwood brown, beautifully mottled on a radial section, foliage 

 bright green. Wholly glabrous, excepting the minutely hairy inflorescence, 1. elliptic 

 or elliptic-lanceolate, acute at both ends, base more or less unequal sided, deeply den- 

 tate in the upper half, blade 2-3, pet. i in. long, sec. n. faint, 4-6 pair, the lowest pair 

 from near the base. Fl. (nearly throughout the year) in small compact pedunculate 

 cymes from the axils of the uppermost 1., calyx-tube in fl. more cylindrical than of 

 Myxa. Very similar to C. crenala, Delile, cultivated in Egypt. 



(b) Cystolith cells conspicuous as raised, generally white disks on upper 

 surface of l. 1 



a. Calyx not distinctly ribbed. 



5. C. monoica, Eoxb. Cor. PI. t. 58. — Syn. C. polygama, Eoxb. Western Peninsula, 

 from tlit- Centr. Prov. southwards. L. ovate or elliptic with a cuneate base, slightly 

 pubescent beneath, rough above with numerous raised disks, blade 1-3, pet. J-l in. 

 Cymes small, calyx obconical, J in. long, $ and fertile fl. on separate branches. 6. C. 

 gTandis, Eoxb. Assam. Chittagong. Burma (Kurz). L. ovate, underside generally 

 glabrous with scanty hairs along nerves, upperside rough with numerous white raised 

 ilNks, blade 5-8, pet. 1-21 in. Fl. in compact cymes, arranged in large pedunculate 

 panicles. 



7. C. fragTantissima, Kurz. Kalamet, Taung kalamet, Burm.: Ktmoh, Kar. Pegu 

 and Martaban. Paunglin forests (D. B. Jan. 1862). Hills east of Taungoo (D. B. 

 May 1859). Heartwood brown, beautifully mottled, in structure resembling C. 

 Maeleodii, but fragrant. L. ovate, upperside when young with fugacious hairs, when 

 mature rough with innumerable white disks, underside clothed with a soft dense bu1 

 fugacious tomentum of stellate hairs, blade 6-10, pet. 1-2 in. long. PI. almost sess 

 in unilateral racemes, arranged in diohotomous panioles. 8. A shrub, Khasi hills 

 C. B. Clarke, 8088, 48264a), Chittagong (C. B. Clarke, 19760), Western Penins. (Herb. 

 Rottler), China (Henry, 114), similar to 7, but 1. broadly elliptic, fl. pedicellate, and 

 racemes not markedly unilateral. 



/J. Calyx distinctly ribbed and furrowed. 



9. C. Maeleodii, Hook. f.&Thoms.; Brandis F. Fl. t. -11. Vern. Dhaiman, 

 Dhagan, Dengan, Bind.; Dhaiican, Mar.: Qodela, Ajmere ; Pedda Battava. 



Tel. 



A middle-sized tree, bands of wood parenchyma narrow, heartw 1 reddish- 

 brown, beautifully mottled. Branchlets, underside of 1.. inflorescence and 

 calyx- clothed with dense grey or tawny tomentum of stellate hairs. 1,. some- 

 times subopposite, cordate, firm and hard when full grown, rough with raised 

 groups of cystolith cells, blade 5-7, pet. 2-3 in. long, the basal as well as 

 ndarv and transverse terl iary nerves prominent on the underside of mature 1. 



1 I have adopted this as a distinguishing character of species 5-11 « ith some hesita- 

 tion, for it is not impossible that the appearai f the cystolith cells on the upper 



ice of leaves may vary. The species of this difficult but important genus require 

 fun her study in the forest. 



