136 c. BORAQiNE^. (C. B. Clarke.) \_GordAa.. 



Hispid spreading herbs. Corolla yellow, tube elongate . . 30. Ahnebu. 

 Suberect herbs. Corolla purple, tube elongate 31. Macbotomu. 



*** Corolla-lobes redrwed to minute teeth. 

 Anthers lanceolate, oonnirent in a cone 32. Oitosua. 



1. COBDIA, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs, sometimes suTMcandent. Leavea alternate, rarely suboppo- 

 site, petioled. Flowers in dichotomous corymbs or clusters, ebracteate, poly- 

 gamous, hermaphrodite corymbs much fewer-flowered than the male. Calyx 

 tubular or campanulate, teeth very short often irregular, in fruit accrescent. 

 Corolla funnel-shaped ; lobes 4^8, patent or recurved, white or orange. Stamens 

 4-8, filaments often hairy at the base ; anthers shortly exserted. Ovary 

 4-celled, glabrous ; style terminal, long, bipartite, branches again bipartite 

 linear or subspathulate ; cells 1-ovuled. Drupe ovoid or ellipsoid, putamen 

 bony, cells 1-4, usually 1 fertile. Seeds exalbuminous. — Species 180, all 

 tropical. 



Sect. I. XXyxa. CoroUa small, white ; tube hardly so long as the calyi. . 

 Stamens usually 4-5. 



* Advlt leaves glabrous or subvillous beneath, not tomentose (except in C. 

 obliqua, WiUd. var. Wallichii). 



t Leaves 3- {or 3-5-) nerved at the base, latercd primary nerves few. 



1. C IWyxa, Linn.; DC. Prodr. ix. 479; branchlets glabrous, leaves 

 ovate or oblong sub-3-nerved glabrous above, corymbs lax many-fld., calyx 

 glabrous or minutely pubescent without lobes hairy within, berry | in. ovoid 

 subacute 1-seeded. DelUe Fl. Mg. t. 19, fig. 1 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey Sr 

 Wall. ii. 332; Wall. Cat. 889; Wight III. t, 169; Sayne Arsn. Oewach. iz. t. 

 33 ; Dalz. Sr Oihs. Bomb. Fl. 173 ; Bmth. FL Austral, iv. 386 {with syn.) ; Bedd. 

 For. Man. 165, and Fl. Sylv. t. 245, fig. A; Brand. For. Fl. SS6, partly; Kurt 

 For. Fl. ii. 208 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 124. 0. Myxa, var. /3 minor only, 

 Thwaites Fnum. 214. 0. indica, Lamh. Diet. vii. 49; DC. Prodr. ix. 500. C. 

 officinalis and africana, Lamh. III. ii. 420, and HI. t. 96, fig. 3. 0. Sebestena, . 

 Forsk. Fl. JEg. Arab. Ixiii. C paniculata, Both Nov. Sp. 124 ; DC. Prodr. ix. 

 482. Sebestena officinalis, Gaei-tn. Finict. i. 364, t. 76. Ehretia glabra. Both 

 Nov. Sp. 127 ; DC. Prodr. ix. 510, ex descr. Beurreria glabra, G. Don Gen. 

 Syst. iv. 390.— Bheede Hort. Mai. iv. t. 37. 



Throughout India and Ceyxon, alt. 0-3000 ft. ; common wild, and often planted. 

 DiSTBiB. — From Egypt to Cochin-ChiDa and Tropical Australia ; but often cultivated. 



A crooked tree, 40 ft., or a shrub. Leaves alternate, 1-5 in. diam., very variable 

 in form and size, subentire, repand-orenate or sublobate, never acuminate ; above 

 glabrous or very obscurely scabrous without white discs or hairs, beneath scabrous 

 often hairy or subvillous when young; petiole ^-Ij in. Flowers $ and 5, often on 

 the same tree, mostly 5-merous. Coryti^s 2-8 in., male larger laxer, terminal and on 

 short lateral branches (C. reflexa sp., Wight mss.), glabrous or (when young) villous 

 or pubescent. Ccdyx -^-J in. at flower-time, soon much accrescent, tubular-campanu- 

 late, lobes very short. Corolla-lobes ^-J in., tube hairy within. Stigmas with long 

 linear lobes. Berry yellow or pinkish, glassy, nearly always 1-seeded ; fruiting calyx 

 f in. diam., wide-funnel-shaped, glabrescent, more or less distinctly striated longi- 

 tudinally. — Sebesten. 



Vae. bmnnea, Kurz For. Fl. 208 ; leaves large, young shoots fulvous-pubescent, 

 young calyx pubescent or subtomentose, berry 1 in. ovoid subacute 1-seeded. C. 

 latifolia. Wall. Cat. 893, not of Soxb. — Bengal, Assam, Khasia, Burma, alt. 0-2000- 



