14 LXXXIX. BORAGINEX (BAKER AND WRIGHT). [ Cordia 
18. C. Goetzei, Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 307, 461. An_ erect 
shrub, 13-16 ft. high. Leaves distinctly petioled, elliptic, 3-4 in. long, 
scarcely twice as long as broad, obtuse, entire, membranous, glabrous 
on both surfaces. Cymes lax. Calyx tubular, glabrous or nearly so 
outside with adpressed silky pubescence inside, 2 lin. long, irregularly 
3-4-toothed. Corolla white ; tube 2 lin. long ; lobes 4, elliptical, obtuse, 
2 lin. long. Filaments 1 lin. long, hairy in the lower part ; anthers 
broadly ellipsoid. Ovary {—,}, in. long, conical; style-arms linear, 1$ 
lin. long. 
MWMozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Khutu; between Kisaki and the 
River Ruaha, 1200-1300 ft., Goetze, 365! 
19. ©, Myxa, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1,190. A shrub or tree up to 
40 ft. high; stem cylindrical, nearly 1 ft.in diam.; branchlets glabrous 
or nearly so. Leaves from oblong and dentate to orbicular and entire, 
very variable in size, glabrous above, glabrous or pubescent beneath ; 
petiole 6-18 lin. long. Cymes in terminal (rarely axillary) lax panicles ; 
branches slender, glabrous, pseudodichotomous ; pedicels 1 lin. long. 
Calyx tubular-campanulate, sparingly hairy outside, densely clothed with 
short hairs inside, 2 lin. long; lobes short, rounded. Corolla white; 
tube cylindrical, as long as the calyx; lobes 5, oblong, about 2 lin. long, 
obtuse or emarginate. Stamens inserted at the corolla-throat ; filaments 
hairy a short distance above the base. Style-armslinear. Fruit ovoid, 
apiculate by the persistent style-base, 6 lin. in diam., seated on the 
enlarged widely campanulate calyx.—Jacq. Fragm. t. 103, fig. 3; Del. 
Fl. Egypte, 191, t. 19, figs. 1-2; Wight, Ill.t. 169; DC. Prodr. ix. 479 ; 
A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 82, partly; Benth. Fl. Austral. iv. 386; 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 136; Hallier f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 717. 
C. Sebestena, Forsk. Fl. AXgypt.-Arab. ]xiii. not of others. C. africana 
and C’. officinalis, Lam. Ill. i. 420, t. 96. ©. domestica, Roth, Nov. Pl. 
Sp. 123. <Argyreia arborea, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 135. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi ; between Lupata 
and Sena, Kirk / British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Karonga, Scott! Boruma 
on the Zambesi, Menyharth, 866! 
Also in Egypt, Madagascar, Tropical Asia, and Queensland. 
20. C. Heudelotii, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 27. Very near 
C. Myxa. Branchlets glabrous. Leaves alternate, oblong, acute, 3—4 
in, long, 14-2 in. broad at the middle, thin not at all scabrid above, 
glabrous beneath; lateral nerves 5—7 on each side ; petiole slender, 
glabrous, 1-1} in. long. Cymes terminal and axillary, lax, ample. 
Calyx funnel-shaped, glabrous, } in. long; teeth 4, small, ovate. 
Corolla-limb 3 lin. in diam. ; lobes 4, oblong, obtuse, twice as long as the 
tube. Stamens inserted in the corolla-throat and shorter than the lobes ; 
filaments hairy in the lower part. Ovary conical; style-arms very 
short. Fruit ovoid, 6 lin. long, 4 lin. in diam., seated upon the enlarged 
hardened broadly campanulate calyx. 
——— Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot! Lagos: Yoruba forests, Barter 
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