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EHRETIA serrata. 
Serrated Ehretia. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. CorDIACER. , 
_ EHRETIA L.—Calyx profundé 5-fidus. Corolla infundibuliformis ; 
fauce nuda: limbo 5-lobo. Stamina exserta. — Stylus semibifidus. Stigmata 
obtusa. Bacca dipyrena, ossiculis bilocularibus dispermis. Arbores v. 
» frutices. Folia integra v. serrata. Panicule terminales. Brown Prodr. 
1. 497. . 
E. serrata; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis serratis glabris, paniculis 
terminalibus axillaribusque compositis, floribus fasciculatis sessilibus. 
(Indica.) 
E. serrata. Roxb. Hort. Beng. p.17. Rémer et Schultes sp. plant. 4. 805. 
- Wallich Flora Indica, 2. 340. 
E. pyrifolia. Don prodr. fl. nep. 102. Spreng. cure posteriores, p. 66. 
B. obovata; foliis ovalibus obovatisque utrinque acuminatis subpilosis. 
(Chinensis.) 
Rami teretes, glabri. Folia oblongo-lanceolata, glabra, serrata, acuta, 
petiolata, utrinque levia, superioribus angustioribus. Panicule azillares et 
terminales, composite, fasciculis florum sessilibus distantibus. Calyx inferus, 
pentaphyllus, foliolis subrotundis, ciliatis, imbricatis, post lapsum corolle in 
ovarium arcte inflexis. Corolla monopetala, rotata, 5-partita, laciniis ovato- 
‘oblongis, recurvis. Stamina 5, sinubus corolle inserta ejusque longitudinis. 
Ovarium subrotundum,. 4-loculare, loculis monospermis ; ovulis funiculo ab 
apice loculorum pendulis. Stylus semibifidus. Stigmata simplicia. 
We received this plant from Mr. Colvill’s Nursery, so 
_ long since as August 1825, as a native of the Caraccas, and 
raised from seed given to Mr. Colvill by Dr. Anthony 
Todd Thomson. There must, however, haye been. some 
mistake in the matter, as it is certainly the Ehretia serrata 
_.of Roxburgh, which has never yet been discovered except 
in the East Indies. A ’ 
We believe it to be also the L. pyrifolia, an excellent 
and much better name, of Mr. D. Don, which was supposed 
