meer ccm ee 
CORDIACEZ. 
glabrous; spikes at first subglobose, then elongated and linear ; 
calyx almost globose, downy, 5-toothed: teeth short, ovate, 
acute. b. S. Native of Hispaniola. "Varrónia integrifolia, 
Desv. journ. bot. |. p. 271. no. 9. t. 10. Poir. suppl. 3. p. 
729. Leaves on short petioles, 14 inch long, and 3-4 lines 
broad, beset with white dots above, paler beneath. Peduncles 
and calyxes downy. Corolla a little longer than the calyx; 
with roundish segments. 
Entire-leaved Cordia. "Tree. 
125 C. Curassa’vica (Roem. et Schultes, syst. 4. p. 460.) 
leaves sublanceolate, acute, serrated, wrinkled, scabrous above, 
and clothed with white down beneath ; spikes terminal, oblong, 
dense-flowered; calyx tubular, inflated, downy? 5-toothed : 
teeth ovate at the base, and ending each in a setaceous point ; 
stamens a little shorter than the'limb of the corolla. h. 
S. Native of Curagoa, in hedges, and among trees. — Varrónia 
Curassávica, Jacq. amer. p. 40. ed. 2. p. 25. Desv. journ. bot. 
l. p. 269. no. 6. Swartz. obs. p. 88. Córdia Martinicénsis, 
Link, enum. 1. p. 162. Sieb. pl. trin. no. 42.  Varrónia Mar- 
tinicénsis, Lam. dict. 4. p. 264. ex Desv. l. c. Cent. amer. t. 
56. according to Desv. l. c. and probably of Swartz. Lantana 
Curassávica, Lin. spec. ed. 1. p. 627. Mill. dict. no. 7. Varrónia 
assürgens, &c. Browne, jam. p. 172. ?—$Sloan. hist. 2. p. 81. 
Branches terete, scabrous, when old rusty. Spikes 2-3 inches 
long, pedunculate; flowers small. Corolla white ; tube length 
of calyx; limb short, with the lobes short and emarginate. 
Drupe small, red. ‘ Leaves alternate, elliptic-lanceolate, or 
oblong, obtuse or acutish, crenated or serrated, densely clothed 
with canescent down beneath, but scabrous above; spikes 
solitary, terminal and lateral, slender, loose-flowered ; lower 
flowers abortive, gland-formed ; calyx downy, 5-toothed : 
teeth acute, thickened, and a little acuminated at apex ; corolla 
campanulate, 3 times as long as the calyx; with a 5-lobed 
limb, and elliptic, obtuse segments ; stamens exserted, length 
of the segments of the corolla; style hardly higher than the 
insertion of the filaments, divided into 4 branches at top, as in 
the rest of the genus. h.S. Native of Brazil, in the island of 
St. Catharine, in gardens. Branches angular, striated, clothed 
with adpressed down at top. Calyx short, campanulate, gla- 
brous inside. Corolla glabrous outside, villous downwards 
from the insertion of the filaments inside. Ovarium glabrous.” 
Cham. et Schlecht, 4. p. 489. 490. 
Curacoa Cordia. Shrub 15 feet. 
* * Doubtful species belonging to Sect. III. Varrónia. 
126 C. wYTIDA (Willd. herb. ex Roem. et Schultes, syst. 4. 
p. 800.) leaves elliptic, quite entire, petiolate, obtuse, shining, 
reticulately veined; flowers cymose. h. S. Native country 
unknown. 
Shining-leaved Cordia. Shrub or tree. 
127 C. arniròLra (Roem. et Schultes, syst. 4. p. 801.) 
leaves ovate-oblong, downy, sharply and equally serrated. h. 
S. Native country unknown. — Varrónia alnifolia, Horn. hort. 
hafn. 1. p. 227. Very nearly allied to C. parviflora, the 
Varrónia parviflora, of Ortega, but differs in the form of the 
leaves. 
Alder-leaved Cordia. Clt. 1818. Tree or shrub. 
128 C. cHAMÆDRYOT DES (Roem. et Schultes, syst. 4. p. 801.) 
clothed with tomentose down; leaves ovate, doubly serrated, 
and cordate; peduncles axillary, cymosely capitate. k. S. 
Native country unknown. Varrdnia chameedryoides, Willd. 
herb. 
Germander-like Cordia. Shrub. 
129 C. microce’pHata (Roem. et Schultes, syst. 4. p. 801.) 
leaves lanceolate-oblong, serrated, scabrous ; spikes ovate. 
I. Corpia. 
II. Paraconura. 387 
h. S. Native of Caraccas. Varrónia microcéphala, Willd. 
herb. 
Small-headed Cordia. Shrub. 
130 C. parvirrora (Desf. hort. par. ex Link, enum. 1. p. 
162.) leaves oblong, acute, serrated, attenuated, and quite 
entire, scabrous, hairy; petioles downy. kh. S. Native 
country unknown. Flowers cymose, as in C. mirabiloides. 
Small-flowered Cordia. Clt. 1819. Shrub or tree. 
131 C. enAwDirFLOnA (Lindl. bot. reg. 1491.) leaves alternate, 
serrated; flowers large, white, terminal, corymbose. h. S 
Native of tropical America.? This is a very doubtful shrub. 
Great-flowered Cordia. Fl. Aug. Cit. 1827. Shrub. 
Cult. All the species of this genus are very pretty while in 
blossom, and are of the most easy culture. They thrive best in 
a mixture of loam, peat, and sand, or any light rich soil; and 
cuttings strike root readily when planted in sand, with a hand- 
glass placed over them in beat, 
II. PATAGO'NULA (so called because a native of Pata- 
gonia.) Lin. gen. and Lam. ill. t. 96. Patagónica, Dill. elth. 
p. 304. t. 226. f. 293. 
Lin. syst.  Pentándria, Monogijnia. Calyx small, deeply 4- 
6-cleft, but usually 5-cleft, at length increasing much as the 
fruit comes to maturity. Corolla rotate, about 2 lines in dia- 
meter; limb 5-cleft, with acutish, elliptic segments ; tube very 
short. Stamens 5, glabrous, shorter than the segments of 
the corolla, inserted in its throat. ^ Ovarium and style 
glabrous. Style and stigmas as in Cérdia. Drupe globose, 
acute, beaked by the permanent base of the style, dry, sur- 
rounded by the calyx as an acorn in its cup, containing a 1- 
celled, 1-seeded putamen by abortion. Embryo pendulous; 
cotyledons plicate-—A much branched shrub, with pale green, 
alternate or nearly opposite leaves, serrated towards the top. 
Inflorescence terminal, bractless, panicled, composed of few- 
flowered cymes. Flowers white. 
1. P. America‘na (Lin. spec. 212.) b. G. Native of Pata- 
gonia and the South of Brazil, Sello. Cordia Patagénula, Ait. 
hort. kew. 1. p. 259. ed. 2d. vol. 2. p. 10. Patagónica foliis 
partim serratis partim entegris, Dill. hort. elth. p. 304. t. 226. 
f. 293. Branches terete. Buds and tender parts of branches 
beset with longer hairs. Leaves glabrous on both surfaces, lan- 
ceolate, or oblong-lanceolate, tapering into the short petioles, 
and sub-cuneated at the base, generally acute, rarely obtuse at 
the apex: younger ones cuneately obovate, entire or serrated 
towards the top: largest ones 23 inches long, with the consist- 
ence and smoothness of those of Laáris nóbilis, margined, when 
young furnished with cilia at the base. Flowers small, pedicel- 
late, cymose, white, or greenish white, smelling like those of 
elder. Limb of corolla from 4 to 5-cleft, with an equal number 
of stamens. 
Var. 8, glabra (Cham. in Linnea, 4. p. 492.) shrub perfectly 
glabrous in every part. kh.S. Native of the South of Brazil. 
American Patagonula. Fl. June, Aug. Cit. 1732. Shrub 
10 to 12 feet. 
Cult. For culture and propagation see Cérdia, above. 
Tribe II, 
EHRETIA'CEZ. (The plants contained in this tribe agree 
with EArétia in the characters given below.) Style semi-bifid ; 
stigmas 2, obtuse. Drupe containing 2-4 2-celled, 2-seeded 
nuts, or 2-4 1-celled, 1-seeded nuts, rarely a 5-6-celled, 5-6- 
seeded nut. Cotyledons plicate. ? This tribe differs from 
Tribe I. Cordiàcec, in the stigmas being 2, not 4, and in the 
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