JEhretia.] 
BORAGINACEiE. 
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is a tree 30 feet high, glabrous in all its parts, with slender terete 
branches, distinctly petioled oblong acute finely serrated subcoriaceous 
leaves, flowers in copious small axillary and terminal deltoid corymbs, 
crowded at the end of the branchlets, calyx campanulate in- l° n g 
with round obtuse much-imbricated ciliated lobes, corolla white with 
a tube as long as the calyx and 5 spreading lobes and a red drupe the 
size of a pea. Telfairia. 
1. E. petiolaris, Lam. ; DC. Prod. ix. 504. A shrub 6-15 feet 
high, glabrous in all its parts, with slender virgate branches. Leaves 
alternate, oblong, entire, glabrous, penninerved, acute, membranous, 
3-4 in. long ; petiole \-l\ in. long. Flowers in dense peduncled 
lateral corymbs with spreading branches ; pedicels short, articulated 
at the apex. Calyx J in. long ; teeth as long as the tube. Corolla 
whitish, rather longer than the calyx, with a campanulate tube and 5 
spreading deltoid lobes. Drupe red, juicy, the size of a small pea. 
E. intemodis, L'Herit. Stirp. i. 47, t. 24. Hilsenbergia Ehretia and 
rugosa, Dunal in DC. Prod. xiii. 478. 
Mauritius, frequent in the woods. Amber Island, Horne ! Also Bourbon, 
Madagascar, and Zanguebar. E. laxa , Jacq. Hort. Schoen. t. 41, is a variety 
with drooping branches and laxer corymbs. Bois Betel. Bois de Pipe. 
3. TOUKNEFORTIA, Linn. 
Calyx small, campanulate, with 5 teeth reaching all or part of the 
way down. Corolla hypocrateriform ; lobes 5, short, spreading. 
Stamens 5, included, inserted in the corolla-tube. Ovary 4-celled ; 
ovules solitary in the cells ; style simple or forked. Fruit a drupe, 
with two 2-seeded pyrenes. — Shrubs, with alternate entire leaves 
and abundant small flowers in dichotomous cymes with scorpioid 
branches. Distrib. Bound the world in the tropics. Species 
about 100. 
Style forked. Corolla-tube not longer than the calyx . . 1. T. argentea. 
Stigma capitate. Corolla-tube twice as long as the calyx. 
Climber, with oblong leaves rounded at the base . . . 2. T. sarmentosa. 
Erect, with oblong-lanceolate leaves narrowed at the 
base 3. T. Bojeri. 
1. T. argentea, Linn. jil. ; DC. Prod. ix. 514. An erect shrub, with 
stout tessellated branches, clothed like the leaves on both sides with 
persistent pale brown glossy tomentum. Leaves crowded, oblanceo- 
late-oblong, obtuse, 4-9 in. long, narrowed gradually from the middle 
to the base. Flowers in ample long-peduncled dichotomous terminal 
cymes, with abundant crowded scorpioid branches. Calyx sessile, 
campanulate, in. long, densely tomentose ; teeth deltoid. Corolla 
white, fragraut, pilose on the outside ; tube as long as the calyx ; lobes 
round, spreading. Style short, deeply forked. Drupe smooth, yellow, 
the size of a pea, containing two 2-seeded pyrenes. T. velutina, Smith, 
non H.B.K. 
