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Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
167, 898 ; King’s Collector 7436, 8344. — Distrib. Burma, Griffith (K.D.) 
6002, Malay Archipelago, Australia. 
2. Ehretia parallela, Clarke in Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. IV. 143 
(1883). A shrub, all parts except the inflorescence glabrous ; young 
branches thinner than a goose-quill, pale when dry. Leaves membranous ; 
obovate or obovate-elliptic, obtuse, from refuse to sub-acute, cuneate at 
the base ; both surfaces dark brown when dry ; main-nerves 7 or 8 
pairs, scarcely curved, ascending, parallel, very bold and distinct on the 
lower surface like the midrib (when dry), faint on the upper ; length 
L5 to 1-75 in., breadth -75 to 1 in. ; petiole ‘25 in. Inflorescence, 
flowers, and fruit as in E. Icevis, Boxb., var. timorensis, but smaller. 
Penang : Curtis 1572. — Distrib. Burma, Gh’iffith (K.D.) 6004. 
5. Coldenia, Linn. 
Much-branched, diffuse or prostrate scabrous herbs. Leaves alter- 
nate, crisped. Floivers small, axillary, sessile or sub-sessile ; the upper 
sometimes in a short one-sided bracteate cyme. Calyx 4-5-partite. 
Corolla with short funnel-shaped tube and 4 or 5 spreading segments 
imbricate in bud. Stamens 4 or 5, inserted on the tube ; anthers ovate. 
Ovary broadly ovoid, 2-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell, or imperfectly 
4-celled with 1 in each ; styles 2, distinct at the base but united upwards 
(although easily separable) ; stigmas 2, capitate. Fruit almost dry, 
composed of 4 sub-connate 1-seeded pyrenes ; seeds with thin testa and 
little if any albumen ; the cotyledons plane. — Distrib. Species 12, 
10 of which are American, 1 African, and the undernoted which is 
cosmopolitan. 
Coldenia procumbens, Linn. Sp. PI. 125 (1753). A scabrous-hairy 
prostrate herb. Leaves elliptic-obovate, coarsely and deeply serrate, 
almost pinnatifid. Fruit, prior to disintegration into its component 
pyrenes, pyramidal. Gaertn. Eruct. I. 329, t. 68 ; Lamk 111. t. 69 ; 
Eoxb. FI. Ind. I. 448 ; Wall. Cat. 942 ; DC. Prod. IX. 558 ; Miq. FI. Ind. 
Bat. II. 933 ; Clarke in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. IV. 144 ; Trimen FI. 
Ceyl. III. 197 ; Cooke Bomb. FI. II. 205 ; Prain Beng. Plants 718. 
Lobophyllum tetrandrum, F. Muell. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. IX. 21. 
Waltheria microphylla, Miq. in PL Hohenack. n. 87b ( not of Cav.). 
By waysides, not common. — Distrib. Everywhere in the tropics. 
Order LXXXI. C O N VO L V U LACEZE. 
[By D. Prain.] 
Herbs or shrubs, usually twining, occasionally erect ; very rarely 
trees ; sometimes parasitic. Leaves alternate or in parasitic species 
