Ehretia
(named after G. D. Ehret, an artist and botanist, born in Germany 1708, died in England 1770). TRIBE Ehretieoe of ORD. Boragineoe. Handsome stove or greenhouse evergreen trees or shrubs. Flowers usually white, small, in corymbose cymes or terminal panicles; calyx small, deeply five-parted; corolla salver-shaped, with a five-parted limb. Leaves petiolate, alternate, opposite, or three in a whorl, entire or serrated. They thrive in a compost of loan and peat. Cuttings will root in sandy soil, in spring, if placed under a bell glass, in bottom heat.
E. serrata (serrate). fl. white, small, numerous, collected into small, nearly sessile fascicles, having a powerful honey-like perfume. l. alternate, broad-lanceolate, serrated, five-pointed. h. 6ft. East Indies, 1823. Stove. (B. R. 1097.) E. tinifolia (Tinus-leaved). fl. white, small, numerous, strong-scented; panicles terminal, oblong. June, July. l. oblongovate, or ovate, quite entire, about 4in. long. h. 16ft. to 28ft. West Indies, &c., 1734. Greenhouse.