532 



fl) R. viMiNEA. (Dah.) 



Ident. iDalz. Bomb. flor. p. 170. 



Syn. Ehretia cuneata, R. W. ^ 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1385. 



Spec. Char. Shrub with tWiggy branches: leaves obovate- 

 cuneate, small, smooth : flowers axillary, few, corymbiform, small, 

 pink : berries size of a small pea, orange-red when ripe. 



Common in the beds of the Concan rivers. Banks of the Oavery 



• near Errode. Flowering in February. 



GENUS IV. TOURNEPORTIA. 

 Synseitesia monosO'ntia. Sex: Syst: 



Deriv. In honor of J. P. de Tournefort, a distinguished Bo<. 

 lanical author. 



Gen. Chae. Calyx 5, rarely 4-parted : corolla cup-shaped, 

 throat naked : stamens 5, rarely 4, inclucJed : style short : stigma 

 undivided or 2-lobed, peltate, subconical : fruit of two carpels, 

 carpels either undivided, pyreniforin, 2-seeded, 2-3-celled, or 2- 

 parted'and in that 'case tetradynamons : seeds solitary in the cdls : 

 radicle superior. — Erect or scandent shrubs, rarely arborescent 

 or herbaceous : leaves almost always alternate, petioled, quite 

 entire, very rarely either partly opposite,^ sessile, or sinuate : 

 spikes secnnd, ebracteate, often cymose : flowers white or yel- 

 lowish. 



(1) T. HEYNEAlfA. (Wall.) 



Ident. Wall. List. No. 9lO.--Dec. prod. IX. p. 516. 



Spec. Char. Climbing: branchlets puberulous, ang*!arly com- 

 pressed at the apex : leaves petioled, elliptic or lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, quite entire, sparingly puberulous above : peduncles terminal, 

 dichotomous : flo'Wers sessile, approximated : calyx slightly hispid, 

 5-parted, acuminate : tube of the corolla puberulous, five-cornered, 

 lilnb short, ovate. 



Pundua, Silhet. 



(2) T. Royieana. CDec.) 



* "Ident. Dec. prod. TX. p. oiT- 



Hyn. Messerschniidia hispida, Bcnth, in Roylc, III. p. 306, 



