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CORDIACEZ. I. Cornia. 375 
pedunculate ; flowers tetramerous; calyxes campanulate, and 
are, as well as the fruit, smooth. R.S. Native of New Hol- 
land, within the tropic. 
Dichotomous Cordia. Clt. 1824. Tree 30 feet. 
3 C. Szsesre‘na (Jacq. amer. 42. ed. 2d. t. 44, Lin. spec. 
ed. 1. p. 1073.) leaves ovate, acute, or elliptic, quite entire, 
hispid, scabrous above; peduncles terminal, corymbose ; calyx 
smooth, clothed with hispid tomentum : limb of corolla 7-cleft, 
with a glabrous throat. hk. S. Native of Cuba, about the 
Havanna, St. Domingo, &c. Andr. bot. rep. t. 157. Curt. 
bot. mag. t. 794. Tratt. tab. t. 354. Lam. ill. no. 1898. t. 
96. f. 1. C. juglandifólia, Jacq. amer. 43. C. speciosa, Willd. 
rel. ex Roem. et Schultes, syst. 4. p. 799.—Plenck, icon. t. 115. 
—Plum. gen. 13. icon. 105.— Sloan, jam. 2. p. 20. t. 164. 
Branches glabrous in the adult state, but clothed with hispid 
tomentum while young. Leaves 4-5 inches long, rather unequal 
at the base. Calyx 2-6-toothed ; teeth bluntish. Corolla fun- 
nel-shaped, orange coloured, or tawny yellow ; limb spreading, 
5-7 parted, with crenately undulated edges. Stamens exserted, 
glabrous. The young leaves are serrated, the full grown ones 
hardly repand, and the upper certainly quite entire. A small 
piece of the wood put on a pan of lighted coals will perfume 
the whole house with a most agreeable smell. The flower in 
Jacquin's figure is coloured like that of the bloody-wallflower. 
Browne says that the flower in the Jamaica plant is scarlet. 
Said by Cham. to be very nearly allied to C. Abyssinica. 
Sebestena Cordia.. Fl. June, Aug. Clt. 1728. Tree 10 to 
35 feet. 
4 C. Dire wit (Spreng. syst. 1. p. 649.) leaves ovate-oblong, 
acutish, repandly serrated, scabrous on both surfaces; pedun- 
cles terminal, sub-corymbose ; calyx tridentate; segments of 
corolla usually 7, roundish, undulated; stigmas revolute. h. 
S. Native of the Bahama Islands. C. Sebesténa, Willd. spec. 
1. p. 1076.—Dill. elth, p. 341. t. 255. f. 331.—Catesb. car. p. 
2. t. 91. Corolla orange-coloured or scarlet. Stamens ex- 
serted. 
Dillenius's Cordia. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1728. Tree 10 to 
30 feet. 
5 C. tm'vis (Jacq. hort. schoenbr. 1. p. 39. t. 40.) leaves 
ovate, acuminated, smooth, repand; racemes short, branched; 
calyx glabrous, tubular, smooth ; corolla wrinkled, with a 6-7- 
cleft, large spreading limb; stamens 6-7. h.S. Native about 
Caraccas. Habit of Sebesténa. Leaves shining above, 9 inches 
long. Corolla orange-red ; segments semi-oval. Stamens ex- 
serted. 
Smooth Cordia. Fl. June, Aug. Clt. 1826. Tree 14 to 20 
feet. 
6 C. ArnrcA'NA (Lam. ill. no. 1896.) leaves roundish, oval, 
entire, obtuse ; panicles terminal; calyx turbinate ; drupe con- 
taining a triquetrous putamen. b. S. Native of Abyssinia, 
Bruce. C. Sebesténa, 8, Poir. suppl. 7. p. 45. C. Abyssinica, 
Salt. trav. p. 475, where there is also a species named C. ovàlis, 
but without any diagnosis. ^ Wanzey Bruce, trav. 5. p. 54. t. 
17. French. ed. p. 70. Perhaps the Sebesténa of Alpini. 
Branches inclinate. Leaves dark green, paler beneath. Corolla 
white. Stigma dark, bifid or trifid. Fruit at first soft and green, 
but at length bony and wrinkled. 
African Cordia. Tree 18 to 20 feet. 
7 C.suBconpA' TA (Lam. ill. 1. p. 421. no. 1699.) leaves 
ovate subcordate, on long petioles, repand, acute, smooth ; pani- 
cles lateral; calyx, stamens, and pistil almost like those of C. 
Sebesténa ; corolla campanulate; drupe ovate, dry, hid in the 
calyx. R.S. Native of the East Indies, in various parts, 
Sandwich Islands, and of New Holland, within the tropic, &c. 
C. orientalis, R. Br. prod. p. 498. C. campanulàta, Roxb. fl. 
ind. 2. p. 336. C. Rümphii, Blum. bijdr. p. 843.? C. Sebes- 
téna, Forst. prod. p. 18. no. 108. C. hexándra, Willd. herb. ex 
Roem. et Schultes, syst. 4. p. 799. Novella nigra, Rumph. 
amb. 2. p. 226. t. 75.? Corolla large, white, suffused with red 
segments, 6-7, roundish, spreading. Calyx like that of a 
species of Diánthus. Stamens length of the tube of the co- 
rolla. 
Subcordate-leaved Cordia. Tree. : 
8 C. ramiFOLIA (Wall. cat. no. 893.) leaves broad, ovate- 
roundish, glabrous, with 5 nerves running from the base ; pani- 
cles terminal and lateral, dichotomous; calyx smooth, cup- 
shaped, unequally toothed ; drupe large, ovate, acuminated, 
surrounded by the calyx at the base. 5j. S. Native of Silhet. 
Flowers large. 
Broad-leaved Cordia. Tree. 
9 C. peca’npra (Hook. et Arn. in Beech. voy. pt. bot. p. 
38. t. 10.) leaves linear-lanceolate, attenuated, scabrous, sessile, 
with revolute edges, hoary from down; flowers disposed in a 
terminal leafy corymb; calyx 10-toothed, clothed with black 
down ; corolla 10-lobed; stamens 10, inclosed. hk. G. Native 
of Chili, about Coquimbo. Tops of branches scabrous. Flow- 
ers large, very showy white, fragrant. Stamens inclosed, pilose 
at the base. Capsule size of a filbert, covered by the calyx. 
The wood of this tree is very extensively employed in the pro- 
duction of charcoal, whence it is called Carbon, and likewise for 
fuel for smelting copper, as the withered stems of Cóctus are 
for refining metal. 
Decandrous Cordia. Shrub 8 to 10 feet. 
10 C.suPE'RBA (Cham. et Schlecht in Linnea, 4. p. 474. and 
8. p. 123.) leaves cuneate-oblong, to oblong-elliptic, acuminated, 
acute, toothed in front, glabrous above, except the nerves, which 
are strigose, but beset with short hairs beneath ; cymes at first 
terminal, then lateral, pedunculate ; calyx clavately tubular, 
irregularly cut at top, or with lacerated lobes, smooth; corolla 
campanulately funnel-shaped, 5-lobed : lobes roundish and acu- 
minated. hk. S. Native of Brazil, within the tropic, Sello. 
Young branches angular, scabrous from dense stiff short hairs. 
Leaves form of the leaflets of the horse-chestnut, firm and 
opaque, the largest 64 inches long, and 21 broad. Branches of 
cyme angular, compressed, and are, as well as the calyxes, 
scabrous from short dense stiff hairs. Flowers large, showy. 
Corolla glabrous, having the tvh- '-ngth of calyx, and the limb 
campanulate. Stamens 5, inclosed, hairy at the base. Stigmas 
lamellate. 
Var. a, cuneata (Cham. et Schlecht, l. c.) leaves cuneate, 
oblong. 
Var. B, elliptica (Cham. et Schlecht, l. c.) leaves elliptic, 
obtuse at the base, and rounded, 83 inches long, and 4j 
broad. 
Superb Cordia. Tree. 
11 C. erna4'sRA (Cham. in Linnea, 8. p. '44.) tops of 
branches, inflorescence, and petioles scabrous from small bris- 
tles, or stiff hairs, the rest glabrous ; branches cinereous, terete ; 
leaves scattered, opposite, and 3 in a whorl, on short petioles, 
lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, somewhat acuminated, acute, 
6 inches long, membranous, flat; cymes scorpioid, terminal, 
but at length lateral; corolla campanulately funnel-shaped, 
glabrous. h. S. Native of Brazil, Sello. Leaves truncate 
and semi-erose, or sinuated on the margins. Cymes bifid or 
trifid. Corolla 14 inch long. Drupe inclosed, truncate at top. 
Glabrous Cordia. Tree. 
12 C. Moxucca‘na (Roxb. fl. ind. 2. p. 337.) leaves on long 
petioles, ovate-cordate, obtuse, entire, smooth ; panicles axil- 
lary and terminal, shorter than the leaves ; calyx gibbous, hairy 
inside; drupe pointed, and nearly hid in the calyx, containing a 
4-celled nut. h. S. Native of the Moluccas. This species 
is often tetrandrous. The filaments are short and very hairy, 
