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58. CGORDIA MONOICA. 
Punagherie of the Telingas. 
Bark grey. 
Leaves alternate, petioled, oval, three-nerve, very scabrous, about 
three inches long, and two broad. 
Petiole round, scabrous, about an inch and a half long. 
Corymbe from the divisions of the branchlets, or terminal, small, 
two-fork’d, composed of short, recurved, one-row’d spikes. 
Flowers small, white. There is a very large proportion of male, or 
barren flowers ; they generally occupy distinct parts of the 
corymbe, but frequently the whole. — 
Hermaphrodite flowers as in the genus. 
Berry size of a cherry, pointed, yellow, pulpy: pulp glutinous, as 
in Cordia Myxa. 
Nut perforated at the apex, four-cell’d. 
Male flowers want the style entirely, but have the rudiment of a 
germ. 
A small irregular, poor-looking tree, chiefly a native of forests, 
where barren land predominates ; casts its leaves in the cold season: 
flowers during the rainy season. 
59. COMBRETUM DECANDRUM. 
Arry-coota of the Telingas. 
Stem woody, climbing. 
Leaves opposite, reflected, short-petioled, oblong, acute, waved, 
smooth, about six inches long, and three broad. 
Floral Leaves small, colour’d, downy. 
Spikes numerous, terminal, and axillary. 
Bracts opposite, lanced, one-flower’d. — 
Calyx bell’d, five-tooth’d. 
Corol five-petaled. 
Stamens ten. ; 
Seed five-cornered: corners increased by broad membranaceous 
wings. 
Is a large climbing shrub, a native of forests, and mountains ; 
flowers during the cold season. _ 
60. MOLINAEA CANESCENS.* 
Coryvie of the Telingas. 
Trunk very large. Bark ash-colour, a little scabrous. 
Branches numerous, spreading in every direction. 
Leaves alternate, abruptly feather’d, sometimes three’d, about six or 
eight inches long, and as many broad. Laeajlets opposite, 
generally two pair, oblong, entire, smooth, shining, firm, 
about five or six inches long, and two or three broad. 
Petiole round, four or five inches long. 
Racemes many, simple or compound, from the extremities of the last 
* A different species from the Molinza of Commerson. Juss. gen. p. 248. 
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year’s, or of two years old branchlets, or round the base of the 
present year’s shoots. 
Flowers small, white, fascicled. 
Calyx five-leaved. 
Petals five: four large standing on the upper side ;_ the fifth is small, 
and stands single on the under side. 
Stigma three-tooth’d. 
Capsule three-sided, three-cell’d, three-valved. 
Seeds one in each cell. 
This is a native of the mountainous parts of the Circars, and 
flowers about the beginning of the hot season. 
In the plate the dissected flower is magnified; the fruit of its 
natural size. 
61. ORNITROPHE SERRATA.* 
Tauatiky of the Telingas. 
Leaves three’d: Leaflets oval, pointed, serrated, generally bubbled, 
margins frequently reflected, smooth ; from two to three inches 
long, and about one and a half broad. 
Racemes axillary, single, erect. 
Flowers numerous, small, white, fascicled ; Male and FHermaphrodite 
mixed. : 
HERMAPHRODITE FLOWERS. 
Calyx four-leaved. 
Petals four, placed on the upper side. 
Filaments very woolly near the base. 
Germs two. 
Style single. 
Stigma two-cleft: segments recurved. 
Berry twin, singly globular, size of a pea, red when ripe, smooth, 
one-cell’d. 
Seed, one in each berry. 
MALE FLOWERS 
exactly as the hermaphrodite, except the pistil which is want- 
ing, or, at most, only rudiments of one are found: 
This is one of the most common plants on the coast. Among the 
mountains, it grows to a small tree ; on the low lands nearer the 
coast it is always a ramous shrub, with a grey, spotted bark. Flowers 
during the wet season. 
The ripe berries are eaten by the natives. 
The root is astringent, and employed by the native physicians, 
in substance, for diarrhceas. 
62. SAPINDUS RUBIGINOSA. 
Ishy-rashy of the Telingas. 
Trunk perfectly erect, of considerable length and thickness. 
Branches numerous, ascending. 
Leaves alternate, abruptly feather’d, about a foot long. Leaflets op- 
posite, four to six pair, oblong, pointed, entire, above smooth, 
below downy, about three inches long, and halfan inch broad. 
* A different species from the Ornitrophe of Commerson. Fuss. gen. p. 247, 
