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nearly glabrous beneath, 8-15 cm. long. Flowers clustered in terminal 

 panicles or axillary with scattered,, appressed hairs or glabrescent, small, 

 sessile, white, fragrant ; corolla deeply 5 lobed ; style bifid. Drupe orange, 

 turning to red or nearly black when ripe; nutlets 2, each 2 celled and 2 

 seeded. 



Himalayas to China and Japan. 



The wood of this and the following species is brown, with thick and 

 lighter colored sapwood, even grained, light, tough, strong and easily 

 worked. Carrying poles are often made from this wood. This tree is 

 sometimes called the heliotrope tree from the odor of the flowers which 

 resembles that of the heliotrope. 



Ehretia macrophylla Wallich. 



Tree 8-15 m. tall, glabrous or pubescent. Bark pale gray, fissured. 

 Leaves broadly elliptic or ovate-cordate, acute, serrate, bristly hairy 

 above, silky hairy beneath, 15-25 cm. long. Flowers white, with ciliate 

 calyx, very fragrant, in terminal pubescent panicles. Fruit globose, 

 apiculate, obscurely 4 grooved, orange yellow, up to 1.5 cm. in diameter, 



Himalayas to China. Kiangsi, Hupeh, Szechuan, Yunnan, 

 Kwangtung, Hainan. 



Ehretia longiflora Champion. 



Tree. Leaves elliptic or oblong, acuminate, entire, th,e veins few 

 and scattered, glabrous, 6.5-10 cm. long. Flowers cymose, white or 

 pink; calyx minute; corolla about 10 mm. long, with spreading ovate 

 lobes; stamens exserted. Fruit globose, 6-8 mm. across, angular, 

 grooved, and 4 parted at maturity. 



Kwangtung. 



SCROPHUL.ARIACEAE 



Trees, shrubs or herbs. Leaves alternate, opposite or whorled, 

 simple, without stipules. Flowers perfect, more or less irregular. Calyx 

 persistent, 4-5 parted or lobed. Corolla hypogynous, the petals united 

 to form a bell shaped or 2 lobed limb; the upper lobe 2 parted, the 

 lower 3 parted. Stamens as many as, or fewer than the parts of the 

 corolla, usually 4, inserted on the corolla. Ovary superior, 2 celled; 

 style 'single, rarely bifid; ovules numerous. Fruit a capsule, rarely a 

 berry. Capsule 2 valved. 



