340 LVI. BOEAGINE^. [Ehretia. 



light bro^^^l, with white specks, fairly even and compact, soft, not heavy, easily 

 worked, made into scabbards, sword-hilts, gun-stocks, and employed in buUd-, 

 ing and for agricultural implements. Weight 37 lb. ; value of P. 530 (Kyd^. 

 Not durable. The unripe fruit is pickled ; ripe it is insipidly sweet,"and is 



2. B. Isevis, Eoxb.— Tab. XLII.— Cor. PI. t. 56 ; Fl. Ind. i. 597 ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 1382. — Vern. Ghamror, chamrur, clmmraud, N.W. India ; 

 Ghambal, gin, Pb. ; Koda, darar, N.W.P. ; Datranga, Oudh ; Tarriboli, 

 Banda ; Tambolia, Banswara; Dotti mam, Gonds, C.P. 



A middle-sized tree ; glabrous or more or less pubescent and ciliate. 

 Leaves membranous when young, firm and nearly coriaceous when full- 

 grown, entire, elliptic, obtuse or acuminate, blade 3-8 in., petiole ^ in. 

 long; main lateral nerves 6-10 on either side of midrib, arcuate, joined 

 by more or less prominent intramarginal veins. Flowers small, white, 

 sessile or subsessile, in loose, terminal and lateral cymes, composed of 

 unilateral spikes ; bracts none. Calyx hairy, lobes ovate, obtuse. Corolla 

 rotate or broad-campanulate, tube a little longer than calyx, lobes twice 

 the length of tube. Anthers not apiculate. Drupe nearly 2-lobed, some- 

 what broader than long, \ in. across, red, afterwards black, wrinkled, a 

 scanty pulp enclosing 3-4 triquetrous, 1 -seeded pyrenes. 



Trans-Indus, on eastern skirts of Suliman range, ascending to 2500 ft., Pan- 

 jab, Siwahk tract, ascending to 2000 ft., occasionally in the Panjab plains. 

 Gangetic plain, and sub-Himalayan tract, ascending to 2500 ft. Oudh forests, 

 Central India, Behar, Guzerat, and the Konkan. The old leaves are shed Jan., 

 Feb. ; the new foliage issues Feb., March, and is light-green, somewhat viscid. 

 Fl. Jan., Feb., before the leaves are quite out, occasionafly up to May, or later ; 

 fruit April-June. Hard vesioulose galls not rare on inflorescence. Attains 30, 

 at times 40 ft., trunk erect, short, irregularly scooped, 3-4, at times 5-6 ft. girth. 

 Many large branches, ascending and spreading into a rounded, lax crown. 

 Branchlets light grey, or with a reddish tinge, smooth. Bark -^1 in. thick, 

 light-yellowish grey with dark specks. Foliage dark green. Wood dirty-white 

 or yellowish brown, compact, even- and fine-grained, tough, easily worked, used 

 for agricultural implements, and for building. The inner bark, in times olf 

 famine, is mixed with flour and eaten. The leaves are given as cattle-fodder. 

 The fruit is tasteless, but is eaten. 



E. florihunda, Royle ; Benth. in Eoyle 111. p. 306, from the Dehra Boon, also 

 found by Stocks at Shah Bilawal in Sindh, seems to me to be merely a variety 

 with acuminate, soft-pubescent and ciliate leaves. 



E. aspera, Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 55 ; Fl. Ind. i. 598, with smaller elliptic or ob- 

 long-elliptic leaves, tomentose beneath, scabrous and pubescent above, terminal 

 corymbose cymes and small globose drupes has not been found within the range 

 of this Flora. It is closely allied to E. ovalifolia, Wight Ic. t. 1383, of South 

 India and Ceylon, 



3. E. obtusifolia, Hochstetter ; DC. Prodr. ix. 507. 



A small shrub, with grey branches. Leaves rough and hairy, spathu- 

 late or obovate, entire, 1-2 in. long. Flowers \ in. long, in short, lax, 

 hairy cymes at the top of small branchlets, pedicels as long as calyx, or 



