$43 FENTANPRIA MONOGYNIA. Ehretia* 



3. E. aspera, Willd. spec. i. 1077. Roxb. Corom. 1. 55. 



Shrubby. Leaves ovate, above scabrous, below downy. Corymbs 

 terminal, dichotomous. Drupe with a four-celled nut. 



Teling. Tella-joovi. 



A small bushy tree, a native of dry rocky barren places. Flow- 

 ers during the wet season. 



Trunk and larger branches covered with dark, rust-coloured 

 baric; young shoots downy. — Leaves alternate, petioled, ovate, above 

 scabrous, downy underneath, from two to three inches long, and 

 from one to two broad. — Petioles channelled, about an inch long. 

 — Corymbs terminal, globular, composed of dense, recurved, one- 

 ranked spikes ; divisions always two-forked. — Flowers very small, 

 white Calyx ; divisions ovate, outside downy. — Corol. Tube gib- 

 bous.— Style two-cleft. Stigma simple. — Berry the size of a grain 

 of pepper, red, marked with four angular elevations, corresponding 

 with the angles of the four-celled nut. — Nut four-celled, or by ex- 

 posure four-partible, smooth. 



Obs. by N. W. 



E. tomentosa, Roth. nov. spec. 126, (altered to E. Hey nil in sysr. 

 veg. iv, 532, the former name being preoccupied) is certainly the 

 above tree, of which specimens are preserved in Dr. Heyne's collec- 

 tion labelled E. tomentosa. — N. W. 



4 E. unifier a, R. 



Shrubby, twiggy. Leaves crowded, sub-sessile, oblong, entire, 

 hairy. Flowers solitary, sub-sessile. Drupe with four one-celled 

 nuts. 



A native of the Moluccas. 



5. E. setosdf R. 



Tender parts bristly. Leaves ovate-cordate, acuminate. Panicle 



