. 128 I)B. THOATSOK ON THE GENUS HEMTGTMNIA, GKirP. 



Note hy Br. J. D. Hooker. 



Lieutenant Beddome's plant (Griffith's Hemigymnia) is un- 

 doubtedlj a species of Cordia, as Dr. Thomson conjectures, and 

 allied to the G. abyssinica^ Br. (Varronia ahyssinica^ D.C.), differ- 

 ing, however, from that plant in the pubescent upper surface and 

 dense white woolly tomentum of the under surface of the leaves, 

 which extends over the petioles, ramuli, peduncles, and calyces ; 

 its corolla is also much smaller. On the other hand, C ampUfoUa, 

 A, D.C., and C. WalUchii, Don, are both closely allied to G. myxa, 

 and have terete, not grooved calyces. Of G. ovalisy B. Br., too 

 little is known to speak decidedly. I have found imperfect spe- 

 cimens of the same species in Dr. Stocks' collections, but without 

 any habitat ; and others, also without a habitat, have been received 

 from Dr. Gibson, in both cases probably from Central India. I 



may add, that I find in Dr. Thomson's Kumaon collections fruiting 

 specimens of another anomalous Cordiaceous plant, Oynaion ves- 

 fi<iw»^ A.p.C, (inD.C. Prodr.ix. 468), gathered at the same spot 

 as those by Edgeworth, and originally described by A. D.C. It 

 is, as A. DeCandolle himself suspects, a Gordia allied to G. Ghif- 

 Jithii and O. ahysHnica. I append diagnoses of both. 



CoBDiA M'LBOnn {Hf. 8f T.). Arborea, ramis robustis, ramulis 

 foliis subtus inflorescentiaque dense fulvo-tomentosis, foliis late 

 ovatis ovato-cordatisve obtusis margine subsinuato undulatis 

 coriaceis supra pubescentibus, floribus corymbosis, calyce tubu- 

 loso sulcato 5-fido, corollsB lobis parvis angustis. 

 Hemigymnia MLeodii, Griff, in Calc. Joum. Nat. Hist. 1843, 



iii, 363 ; Schauer in D.C, Prodr. xi. 697. 



Hob. In India centrali ; Malwah ! Chifflth, Beddome. Concan ? 

 Oihson^ Stocks. 



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CoRDiA YESTITA {Hf. Sf T.). Eamis robustis, ramulis foliis novel- 

 lis ct inflorescentia dense sericeo-lanatis, foliis late ovatis ellip- 

 tico-ovatisve acuminatis coriaceis supra scaberulis subtus pubes- 

 ceuti-tomentosis subsinuatis villosiusculisve, floribus polyganiis 

 cymoso-paniculatis, calyce sulcato 4-6-lobo lobis patentibus. 

 Gynaion vestitum, A. D.C. Prodr. ix. 468. 

 Hab. In Himalaya occidentali tropica ; Garwhal ad Pau, alt. 



3000-4000 ped. ! Edgeworth ; T. Thomson. 



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