Comparative images support the ID by Garg ji.

On Tuesday, June 23, 2020 at 4:56:56 PM UTC+5:30, JM Garg wrote:
>
> While reviewing this genera in efi, I feel it should be *Berchemia 
> edgeworthii* M. A. Lawson in J. D. Hooker (although habit image is 
> missing) as per 
> Keys in Flora of China 
> <http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=103817> and FoC 
> illustration 
> <http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=93392&flora_id=2>
>
> Fruits are stated to be "Drupe yellowish green when young, dark blue and 
> waxy at maturity, *globose to ovoid to ellipsoid, 5-6 mm, to 3 mm in 
> diam., *with persistent disk and calyx tube at base; *fruiting pedicel 
> 4.5-5 mm, pilose*" and "Flowers white, very small, 4-5 mm in diam.,* in 
> terminal cymose racemes or in fascicles of few to 10 in leaf axils*" as 
> per Flora of China in *Berchemia lineata* (Linnaeus) Candolle 
> <http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200013315> (? 
> India)
> While they are "Drupe orange or purple at maturity, *cylindric*, *7-9 mm, 
> 3-4 mm in diam., *with inconspicuous remnants of disk and calyx tube at 
> base; mesocarp sweet; *fruiting pedicel 2-4 mm, glabrous*" and "Flowers 
> white, 2.5-3 mm in diam., glabrous, *solitary or 2- or 3-fascicled in 
> axils of leaves*" in *Berchemia edgeworthii* M. A. Lawson in J. D. Hooker 
> <http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200013315>.
>
> Also matches with specimen in GBIF 
> <https://api.gbif.org/v1/image/unsafe/https%3A%2F%2Fmedialib.naturalis.nl%2Ffile%2Fid%2FL.2322922%2Fformat%2Flarge>
>  
> from the area.
>
> Flora of Pakistan and Checklist of Nepal does not mention *Berchemia 
> lineata* (Linnaeus) Candolle 
> <http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200013315>. Flora 
> of Pakistan 
> <http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=200013315> 
> mentions *Berchemia lineata* auct. non DC. as a syn. of *Berchemia 
> edgeworthii* Lawson in Hook. f.
>
>
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> From: Nidhan Singh <[email protected] <javascript:>>
> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 at 20:17
> Subject: [efloraofindia:184434] My Pending Identifications: Chakrata-Shrub 
> 1:: NS MARCH 08
> To: indiantreepix <[email protected] <javascript:>>
>
>
> Dear All,
>
> This id is long pending..please help, this shrub was shot from 
> Chakrata-Budher road, flowering was over, only fruits were visible, can 
> this be a legume? 
> I can only wish I had dissected the fruit, to make the things little 
> clearer.. 
>
> -- 
> Regards,
>
> Dr. Nidhan Singh
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Botany
> I.B. (PG) College
> Panipat-132103 Haryana
> Ph.: 09416371227
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