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Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
In all the provinces, by waysides, not common. — D isteib. From 
W. Asia through India to Australia. 
4. Ehbetia, Linn. 
Glabrous or scabrous shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, entire or 
dentate. Floivers small, usually white, in axillary or terminal corymbs 
or panicles, rarely on 1-flowered axillary peduncles. Calyx small, 
5-partite. Corolla with short cylindrie tube ; the limb with 5 obtuse 
imbricate spreading lobes. Stamens 5, inserted on the tube, exserted, 
rarely included, ovate or oblong. Ovary 2-celled, the cells bi-ovulate ; 
sometimes imperfectly 4-eelled and the cells with solitary ovules ; style 
terminal, cylindrie, bifid or bi -partite ; stigmas small, capitate or 
clavate. Drupe small, usually globose, 4-seeded or (by suppression) 
1-3-seeded ; usually dividing into 2 bilocular or into 4 unilocular, 
often compressed pyrenes. Seeds straight, with little albumen and thin 
testa. — D isteib. About 55 species, all tropical, chiefly in the Old 
World. 
Leaves ovate to elliptie-oblong, shortly acuminate, with about 5 pairs 
of main-nerves . . . . . . . . . . 1. E. Icevis. 
Leaves obovate or obovate-elliptic, obtuse retuse or sub-aoute, with 
7 or 8 pairs of main-nerves . . . . . . . . 2. E. parallela. 
1. Ehretia l^ivis, Eoxb. Cor. PI. I. 42, t. 55; var. timorensis, 
Clarke in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. IY. 142 (1883). A small tree ; young 
branches rusty-puberulous, becoming ultimately glabrous, dark coloured 
when dry. Leaves thinly coriaceous ; ovate to elliptic-oblong, shortly 
acuminate, the base slightly cuneate or sometimes rounded ; both sur- 
faces glabrous, brown when dry, the lower paler and reticulate ; main- 
nerves about 5 pairs, rather straight, ascending slightly, thin but 
prominent on the lower surface like the midrib ; length 2’5 to 5 in., 
breadth 1'25 to 2-25 in. ; petioles about - 4 in. Cymes axillary and ter- 
minal, shorter than the leaves, corymbose, puberulous ; the ultimate 
branches scorpioid. Floivers small, numerous, sessile. Calyx less 
than -1 in. long, its mouth with 5 oblong lobes. Corolla-tube '1 in. 
long; the lobes 5, shorter and spreading. Anthers exserted. Fruit 
when 4-seeded about 2 in. in diam., smaller when 2-seeded, depressed- 
globose, ribbed ; pyrenes 4 or 2, sometimes only 1, each with a single 
seed ; the persistent calyx much shorter than the fruit, its lobes acumi- 
nate. E. timorensis, Dene, in Nouv. Ann. Mus. d’Hist. Nat. III. 395 ; 
DC. Prod. IX. 505. E. philippinensis, DC.I.c. 504. E. Icevis, Benth. 
FI. Austral. IV. 389. 
Malacca: Maingay (K.D.) 1164; Bidley 3302. Peeak : Scortechini 
