604 XL. iLiciNE^. (J. B. Hooker.) [Tlex. 



th.it the mss. ticket attached to Blintwortb's specimens in Wallich's handwriting, 

 bears the name excelsa. Braniiis is certainly mistaken in referring the Ehretia 

 umbelMata, together with various Malayan Peninsula4specimens, to this species. 

 Wallich describes the ilower as inodorous, Brandis as sweet-scented. Very near if not 

 identical with 1. rotunda, Thunb., of Japan. 



18. X. Godajam, Colebr. ms. ex WaU. Cat. 4329 ; branchlets pubescent, 

 leaves 3-5 in. soft ovate acute or with a retuse tip quite entire nerves 

 spreading, petiole slender, umbellules pubescent on simple or branched 

 peduncles, $ iiowers 4-5-merous. Ehretia umbellulata. Wall, in Eoxh. Fl. 

 JtwL. ed. Carey, ii 344 ; Gat. 4329. Pseudehretia umbellulata, Turcz. in 

 BuU. Soc. Nat. Moscimz, pt. L 607. 



Easteen Bengal, Assam, and Silhet; Jilpigoree (Hamilton in Herb. Wall.) ; foot 

 of Sitkim hills, J. D. H. 



A branching tree ; bark pale, ashy. Leaves rather membranous, soft, undulatfe, 

 nerves very slender ; petiole slender, 4-1 in- ; stipules 2, minute. Flowers- {S only 

 seen) J-J in. diam., in simple or panicled peduncled umbellules, which, as well as the 

 peduncles and very short pedicels, are more or less pubescent, fragrant. Ccdyx-lohes 

 orbicular. PeioZs ovate-oblong, shorter than tbe slender filaments, united^ below. — It 

 is remarkable that of the five collectors from whom 1 have specimens of this plant, not 

 one has obtained the female flowers or fruit. One of Wallich's specimens has the 

 flowers almost twice as large as and more pubescent than the others, and may be a 

 different species. I have tbe same from the Garrow hills, gathered by Simons. — This 

 differs much from I. excelsa, in the foliage, longer peduncles, and more numerous 

 flowers, and may prove the same with /. sAata, Wall. 



19.- X. sulcata, Wall. Gat. 4330 ; glabrous, leaves 4-6 in. soft elliptic- 

 lanceolate or -oblung or -ovate obtuse quite entire membranous, petiole 

 slender, umbellules solitary simple long-peduncled puberulous, flowers 4r-6- 

 merous, drupe with about 8 trigonous stones. 



Tenasseeim, at Moulmein, WaUich ; Mergui, Griffith; Amherst, Heifer (Kew disbib. 

 1998) ; Pegu, Kvrz. 



Probably a tree ; bark of branches grey-brown ; shoots apparently soft. Leaves thin 

 and soft in texture, pale yellow-brown wlien dry, with a slender ti'anslucent margin ; 

 nerves beneath very slender, arching, hardly reticulate ; petiole ^-f in. Umbellules 

 12-20-flowered, more or less puberulous, always solitary and simple ; peduncle 1 in., 

 often shorter in the ? , compressed ; pedicels J in. Flowers about -jV in. diam. (Myx- 

 lobes orbicular. Petals broadly oblong, obtuse, recurved, 4 in the i and connate below, 6 

 in the ? and free, shorter than the slender filaments. Jiudimentary-ovary conical, sub- 

 tended by the obtusely 6-lobed calyx. Drupe ^ in. diam., globose ; stones trigonous, 

 with tbe back, I think, concave, whence probably Wallich's name of sulcata, but I 

 cannot well determine this point ; stigma quite sessile, lobed. — Perhaps the same as 1. 

 Godajam, Colebr. Very similar in foliage to /. cymosa, Blume, but the umbellules 

 are simple, and bark of a very different colour. 



Sect. V. Female flowers in branched peduncled cymes, rarely in simple 

 umbellules. Leaves quite entire in all. (This differs from Sect. IV. in the 

 umbellules being more broken up into cy mules.) 



20. X. macropbylla. Wall. Cat. 4331 ; quite glabrous, leaves 4-7 in. 

 elliptic-oblong obtuse quite entire rather coriaceous, nerves beneath few 

 strong ascending, flowers in branched peduncled cymes 4r-6-merous, drupe 

 small with about 8 stones. 



Eastern Peninsula; Feuang, FhiUips, Wallich; Malacca, Griffith, Maingay. 

 ?Tenassekim, Heifer, and Mergui, Griffith (Kew distrib. 2012). — Disteib. Java; 

 Sumatra, 



