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foregoing species, but its glabrous, smooth, usually entire, leaves, and the shortly 

 stalked inflorescences, exclude it from the other species in the section Myxa 

 to which it belongs. Until better specimens are obtained it must remain an 

 unsatisfactory species. 



3. C. Rothii, Rcem. et Schult. Syst. iv. 798 ; DC. Prod. ix. 480 : Clarke 

 in Hook. Flor. Brit. Ind. iv. 138 ; Wight Ic. t. 1379. 



C. oblongifolia, Hochst. in herb. Schimp. Abyss, sect. ii. n. 789. 

 C. subopposita, DC. Prod. ix. 480 ; Aob. Bicb. Tent. Flor. Abyss, ii. 81. 

 C. quercifolia, Klotzscb in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 247. t. 43. 

 Comics sanguinea, Forsk. Fl. iEgypt. Arab. 33, (fid. DC). 



Socotra. On the Haghier range. Not common. B.C.S. n. 186. 



Distrib. Nile Land, Mozambique, Scindh, and western India. 



We have fragmentary specimens of a plant which appears to be this species. 

 Unfortunately neither flowers nor fruit are present on our specimens ; there 

 are only the bases of the flower panicles remaining upon leafy shoots. 



The species, as it grows on the dry plains of Scindh and in Abyssinia, is a 

 much more woody and rigid plant than it is in the regions of south tropical 

 Africa and western India. Our plant resembles most the Scindh form. 



2. EHRETIA. 

 Ehretia, Linn. Gen. n. 257 ; Benth. et Hook. Gen. PI. ii. 840. 



A considerable genus of trees and shrubs inhabiting the warmer regions of 

 both old and new worlds, but most abundant in the old world. 



1. E. obtusifolia, Hochst. in herb. Schimp. Abyss, sect. ii. n. 652 ; DC. 

 Prod. ix. 507 ; Ach. Rich. Tent. Flor. Abyss, ii. 83 ; Boiss. Flor. Orient, iv. 

 124; Clarke in Hook. Fior. Brit. Ind. iv. 142. 



E. obovata, B. Br. in Salt Abyss, app. 



Socotra. On the hills. B.C.S. n. 177. Schweinf. n. 478. 



Distrib. Abyssinia, Scindh, Beloochistan. 



We only obtained this tree in leaf, and our specimens only admitted of our 

 referring the plant doubtfully to this genus. Schweinfurth sends specimens in 

 flower which enable us to complete the identification. 



2. Ehretia sp. 



Socotra, On the hills. B.C.S. n. 717. 



We have specimens without flower and fruit of a small shrub which is 

 evidently an Ehretia and allied to E. buxifolia, Roxb. (Cor. PI. i. 42, t. 57 ; 

 DC. Prod. ix. 509 ; Clarke in Hook. Flor. Brit. Ind. iv. 144), but they are too 

 fragmentary for exact determination. 



