142 c. BOEAaiNE^. (0. B. Clarke.) [Ehretia^ 



505 ; Wiffht Ic. t. 1382 ; Dah. 8f Gibn. Bomb. Fl. 170 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 246; 

 Kurz For. Fl. ii. 210 ; Brand. For. Fl. 340, t. 42. E. punctata, Roth Nov. Sp. 

 126. E. affinis, Wall. Cat. 900. E. dichotoma, Rottl. in Wall. Oat. 904, 

 probably of Blume also. Beurreria Isevis and punctata, O. Don Oen. Syst. 

 iv. 390. 



Throughout Indu in tropical and subtropical regions, common. — Distbib. From 

 Persia to China, Australia and Polynesia, the allied Tropical African species are 

 perhaps only geographical forms. 



A tree 30-40 feet, or a shrub ; branchlets glabrous, or rusty-pubescent, or sparsely 

 laxly hirsute. Leaves 5 by 2 J in., unsymmetric, rather thin in texture, young glabrous: 

 softly hairy or densely tomentose, mature glabreseent ; petiole § in. Corymhs 3 in. 

 lax, glabrous or usually pubescent or rusty, ultimate branches long recurved with 

 sessile fruits. Gab/x-hbes ^ in., oblong, in fruit ovate. Corolla-tube i in,, lobes ^in.. 

 spreading. Anthers exsert. Drupe (when perfecting 4 seeds) \ in. diam., depressed 

 globose, when dry distinctly 4-ribbed, pyrenes 4 each 1-seeded ; on one corymb are 

 usually seen drupes perfecting 1, 2, 3, or 4 seeds. — All authors previous to Brandis 

 have kept this species distinct, describing it as absolutely glabrous ; it is however 

 nearly always manifestly hairy, and the indumentum is rusty, pubescent, ciliate, 

 hirsute or tomentose at least in the innovations. 



Vae. floribunda, Brand. Por. PI. 340 ; innovations hairy or glabrous, corymbs 

 large axillary or collected towards the ends of the branches often forming quasi- 

 panicles 6 in. diam. E. floribunda, Beiith. in Boyle 7&306; Z)(7..Pr-o<Zr. ix. 507 ; 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 124. E. Cutranga, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 7012. — ^Punjab toBehar. 

 Distrib. Cabul. 



Vab. pubescens ; branchlets hairy, mature leaves softly hairy beneath or on both 

 surfaces. E. pubescens, Senth. in Boyle III. 306; DC. Frodr. ix. 597. — Throughout 

 India. 



Vab. tiviorensis ; glabrous or the innovations and corymbs rusty-pubescent, leaves- 

 broadly oblong or somewhat obovate acuminate, corymbs axillary and terminal. E. 

 timorensis. Done, in Nouv. Ann. Mus. SHist. Nat. iii. 395 ; DC. Frodr. ix. 505. E. 

 philippensis, A. DC. Frodr. ix. 504. E. Isevis, type Senth. Fl. Austral, iv. 389. — ^Malay 

 Peninsula, Distrib. Malaya, Australia. — Leaves often 6 in., usually larger and more 

 acuminate than in the Indian E. leevis, also drying very black and usually symmetric 

 or nearly^ so. As to the fruit, in E. lams type it is often sub-2-pyrenous, the pyrenes 

 only separating into 4 ultimately or with difficulty. 



Vae. ccmarensis ; glabrous or nearly so, leaves broadly oblong symmetric nar- 

 rowed at both ends, mature glabrous above rugose with impressed nerves scabrous- 

 beneath. E. canarensis, Miq. in Fl. Hohenack. n. 285. E. Championi, Wight S[ 

 Gardn. ms. — W. Deccan Peninsula and Ceylon. — The common Ehretia of the Nil- 

 ghiris (alt. 3-6000 feet) and other Decean Mts. It has been regarded as a distinct 

 species, being readily distinguished by the symmetric strong-nerved leaves. 



Var. aspera ; leaves small obtuse mature hairy beneath. E. aspera, Boxb. Cor^ 

 Fl. i. 41, t. 55, and in Fl. Ind. ed. Carey ^ Wall. ii. 342 ; WaXl. Cat. 902 ; DC. Frodr. 

 ix, 507; Bedd. For. Man. 166; Brand. For. Fl. 340; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 209. E. 

 tomentosa. Both Nov. Sp. 126, not of Lamk. E. Heynii, Boem. ^ Sch. Syst. iv. 532. 

 Beurreria aspera, Gr. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 390.— Assam.— Described from Eoxburgh's 

 example in Herb. Wallich (which agrees with his Ic. Ined. in Herb. Kew), on which 

 the largest leaves are If by | in., scabrous above, persistently hairy beneath. None 

 of the E. aspera (except from E. Bengal) agrees with this exactly, the E. aspera of 

 Kurz, Dalzell, &e., having larger leaves and resembling E. lavis, var. pfd>escens. 

 Wight's E. aspera includes an example absolutely glabrous, the young leaves and 

 calyx shining glabrous ; no example of E. leevis type is so glabrous. A very hairy 

 obtuse-leaved example collected at Arcot by Griffith has the calyx-lobes narrowly 

 oblong and the style deeply bifid. 



4. E. obtusifolia. JSochst; A. DC. Frodr. ix. 507; leaves olaovate- 

 oblong obtuse mature hairy, flowers as of E. leevis but rather larger. Brand. 



