Ehretia, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 343 



terminal, composed of dichotomous, secund, recurved spikes. 

 J)rupe with four one-celled nuts. 

 A native of the Island of Hamoa. 



6. E. buxifolia, Willd. i. 1079- -R. Corom. pi. 1. N. 57. 

 Shrubby. Leaves wedge-shaped, apex tridentate, scabrous, pedun- 

 cles from two- to six-flowered. Nuts fire- or six-celled. 



Cordis retusa, Vahl. symb. ii.p. 42. 



'J'e/ino. Bnpauu-booree. 



A midoiing-sized, ramous shrub or small tree, very common on 

 baiivu lands aud in forests. Flowering time the wet season. 



Leaves on the young shoots alternate, on the former branchlets 

 fascicled, sessile, rerlexed, wedge-formed, very scabrous, very bard 

 aibove, shining, from half an inch to an inch long, and a quarter or 

 ball a,i inch bioad. — Peduncles from amongst the leaves on the woody 

 branchlets, from two- to six-rlowered.— Pedicels very short. — Flowers 

 small, white. — Calyx five-parted, divisions lanceolate, as long as 

 the corol. — Corol campanulate. Border five- or six-cleft. — Stamens 

 five or six, shorter than the corol.— Style two-cleft. Stigmas sim- 

 ple. — Berry the size of a pea, succulent, red. — Nut five- or six-celled. 



7. E. inter nodis, Willd. i. 1077. 



Arboreous. Leaves oblong, entire, smooth. Panicles terminal 

 and lateral. 



Found indigenous at the Mauritius by Colonel Hardwicke. 



Additional species brj N. W. 



8. E, macrophylla, Wall. 



Arboreous. Leaves ovate, acute, sharply dentate, harsh, with short 

 •tiff hairs above, soft and pubescent underneath. Panicle terminal. 



An inhabitant of Cbundra-giri in Nipal, where 1 found it with 

 unripe fruit in June. 



A large tree. Branchlets round, with ash-coloured, callous, dotted 



