14i c. BOEAGiNB^. (0. B. Clarke.) [Ehretia. 



dry longitudinally ribbed ; pyrenes 4, compressed, lunate, corrugated without, occupy- 

 ing the periphery of the drupe,. the centre (in the dried drupe) hollow, occupied by 

 the shrivelled fleshy tissue; pyrenes 1-seeded. — Perhaps a small-flowered form of 

 the Hong-Kong E. hngiflora (Champ, in Hook. Kew Journ. v. 58), which agrees ex- 

 actly as to the fruit and leaves, but has the corollar-tube f in. long. 



Sbci. II. Carmona. Styles 2, undivided (1 sometimes suppressed), or I 

 sub-2-partite. 



10. E. buxifolia, Soxb. Cor. PI. i. 42, t. 57, and in Fl. Ind. ed Carey Sr 

 Wall. ii. 343 ; leaves small fascicled obovate entire or lobed, peduncles axillary 

 1- (or few-) flowered. Wall. Cat. 905 ; DC. Prodr. ix. 509 ; JBedd. For. Man. 

 167. E. heterophylla, Spreng. Syst. i. 648; A. DC. I.e. E. microphyUa, 

 Lamk. lU. ii. 425. Oordia retusa, VtAl Symb. ii. 42. C. coromandeliana, 

 Koenig |- Retz ms. Oarmona heterophylla, Cav. Ic. v. 23, t. 438. 



Decoan Pbninsdla; in dry jungles, Wight, Valnell, &e. — DiSTKra. Malaya to 

 Formosa and the Philippines, 



A shrub. Leaves 1 by |^ in., obtuse, very scabrous, often 3-lohed towards the apex, 

 . attenuated at the base, suhsessile. Peduncles 0-f in., hairy. Calyx-lobes i in., lanceo- 

 late-linear. Corolla i in., white, campaniilate ; lobes short, ovate. Filarments very 

 short. Drupe ^ in. diam., globose; pyrene 1, 4-seeded; without any cavities in the 

 • drupes examined; with 6-8 cavities (A. DC). 



EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



E. MOLLIS, Wall. Cat, 7011; DO. Prodr. ix. 511, is Mappia ovata, Miers, 

 V. i. p. 509. 



3. COXiDElTXA, Linn. 



Prostrate, scabrous herbs. Leaves alternate, crisped. Flowers axillary, 

 , sessile (or nearly so), the upper sometimes in a one-aded leafy spike, white. 

 Sepals 4-5, narrow. CorollaAxAs short, lobes 4-^5, imbricated in the bud, 

 patent. Stamens 4-5, on the coroUartube ; anthers ovate. Ovary 2-celled with 

 2 ovules in each cell, or sub-4-celled with solitary ovules ; style terminal, bifid. 

 Drwpe (nearly dry) of 4, subconnate, 1-seeded, pyrenes. Testa of the seed thin ; 

 albumen 0, or scanty ; cotyledons flat. — Species 10 American, and the fol- 

 . lowing. 



1. C. procumbens, Linn.; DC. Prodr. ix. 558 ; procumbent, scabrous- 

 hairy, leaves elliptic-obovate coarsely serrate or subpinnatifid, pyrenes subcon- 

 nate into an acute 4r-ribbed pyramid. Gaertn. Fiict. i. 329, t. 68 ; Lamk. III. 

 t. 89 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 448; Wall. Cat. 942; Dab. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 171. 

 Lobophyllum tetrandrum, F. Muell. in Hook. Kew Journ. ix. 21. Waltheria 

 1 microphyUa, Miq. in. PI. Sohenack. n. 87 b. not of Cav. 



Throughout tropical iNDii, a weed. — Disteib. Asia, Africa, Australia, America. 

 Annual, usually quite flat. Leaves l-lj in. Flowers \ in. Pyrenes ^ in. 

 . albuminous. 



4. RKABDZA, Mart. 



A shrub; branches twiggy. Leaves small, alternate or clustered, linear- 

 oblong, entire or toothed. Flowers small ; racemes very small, few-fld., sub- 

 terminal on short lateral branches. Sepals 5, lanceolate, aciuninate. Corolla 

 piak-purple ; tube short, campanulate ; lobes oblong, imbricate in the bud. 

 Stamens 5, on the corolla-tube ; anthers oblong or ovate. Ovary 2-celled, cells 

 ^-ovuled, or sub-4-celled with colls 1-ovuled ; style terminal, stigma capitate 



