206 GENTIANER. [ Fagrea. 
Has.—Very common in the Eng and hill Eng forests of Tenasserim from 
Moulmein southwards.—Fl. June—Jan.—1.—SS.—=Lat. 
RemarKs.—Wood yellow or light brown, white streaked. Break-weight= 
400-500 pd.—Said to be imperish: if exposed to water, and Zeredo navalis 
will not attack it. Used for house-building, posts, piles for bridges and wharves. 
Recommended for railway sleepers, 
BORAGINEA. | ; 
Flowers usually hermaphrodite, regular or nearly so. Calyx free, 
5- (rarely 4- or 6-) -cleft or toothed, or rarely irregularly’ slit. 
Corolla salver-shaped to almost rotate-salver-shaped, with a longer 
or shorter tube, 5- rarely 4- or 6-lobed, imbricate or induplicate in 
ud. Stamens as many as corolla-lobes and alternating with them, 
or very rarely fewer, inserted in the corolla-tube; anthers 2-celled, 
dehiscing longitudinally or rarely in apical pores. Ovary superior, 
entire or 4-lobed, either 4-celled with’ a solitary ovule in each cell, 
or 2-celled and the cells 2-ovuled (in both cases the ovary consists 
of 2 carpels only), the ovules laterally attached, ascending or pen- 
dulous ; style terminal or between the lobes. Fruit eithera drupe 
with the endocarp entire or separating into 2 or 4 pyrenes, or dry | 
an ting into 4 or rarely 2 nuts. bumen none or scanty. 
Embryo straight, with flat and rather thick or rarely folded cotyle- | 
dons, the radicle short.—Herbs or perennials, usually rough from 
coarse hairs, or shrubs and trees, which are glabrous or of a softer | 
indument, with alternating or very rarely opposite leaves, simple or 
and braetlets often wanting. 
Style twice forked; cal 1 i 
. onder the Ba. Ge aie staves iistaed ii > 
Style 2-lobed, without any thick ring; calyx deeply cleft; trees 
- or pay sty! . ni ‘ are a é - - Ehretia, 
preceding, e sim i - 
stigma ; shrubs . ~ ‘a 3 — ‘ Sou! rate Rhabdia. | 
: CORDIA, L. 
Calyx tubular or bell-shaped, 5-toothed or irregularly lobed. 
Corolla-tube cylindrical or funnel-shaped, the limb 5- or rarely 6- 
or more-lobed. Stamens inserted in the tube: anthers included or 
carp hard, 4. or by abortion fewer-celled. Albumen none. Cotyle- 
dons longitudinally folded, the radicle superior.—Trees or shru a 
with entire or toothed leaves. Flowers in cymes, sometimes COM= 
