Cordia. | LXXXIX. BORAGINEH (BAKER AND WRIGHT). 15 
21. C. Zedambeze, Martelli, Florul. Bogos. 58.—A small tree 
or shrub. Branchlets slender, glabrous. Leaves alternate, oblong, 
acute, 2~3 in. long, 1-14 in. broad at the middle, narrowed gradually 
to the apex and base, thin, not scabrid above, slightly hairy on the 
nerves on both surfaces. Petiole 6 lin. long, pilose. Cymes lax, 
terminal, shortly peduncled. Calyx urceolate, 3 lin. long, not sulcate, 
glabrous outside, densely pubescent inside; limb scarious, irregularly 
toothed. Corolla-tube cylindrical, 3 lin. long ; lobes 4-5, oblong, obtuse, 
24 lin. long, recurved. Stamens inserted in the corolla-throat, } lin. 
long, slightly hairy below. Ovary oblong; style-arms linear. Drupe 
unknown. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Shotel, on the slopes of Zedamba (Tsad Ambu) Bee- 
cari, 115! 
22. ©. senegalensis, Juss. in Lam. Encycl. vii. 46.—A tree 
about 20 ft. high; branches terete, blackish, glabrous. Leaves ovate 
or elliptic, acuminate, subacute at the base, 24 in. long, 1 in. wide, 
glabrous on both surfaces (scabrid, DC.), entire ; petiole glabrous, 2 in. 
long. Panicles short, subracemose, terminal on short branches ; 
pedicels short; flowers 4-merous. Calyx ovoid-oblong, 34 lin. long, 
smooth, coriaceous. Corolla salver-shaped; lobes oblong. Stamens 
shorter than the corolla-lobes. Fruit ovoid, apiculate by the persistent 
style-base.—DC. Prodr. ix. 480. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, 4danson, Perrottet. 
Var. Pelida, A. DC. in DC. Prodr. ix. 480. Leaves 2-3 in. long, 15-18 lin. wide, 
rather obtuse at the base, entire or remotely crenate-dentate at the apex ; petiole 4 lin. 
jong. Flowers unknown. Fruit ovoid, acute, 46 lin. long, surrounded in its lower 
half by the widely campanulate crenate-dentate calyx.—C. Pelida, Perrott. ex 
A. DC. 1.c. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Perrottet. 
23. ©. Mannii, C. H. Wright.—A tree 30 ft. high; branchlets 
glabrous. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 54 in. long, 14-2 in. 
wide, membranous, glabrous, cuneate at the base; petiole slender, up 
to 14 in. long. Panicles at or near the apex of the branchlets: flowers 
polygamous. Calyx tubular, 2 lin. long, glabrous; lobes 3, broad, 
obtuse. Corolla-tube narrowly funnel-shaped, 14 in. long; lobes 4, 
oblong or almost spathulate, reflexed, 24} lin. long. Stamens inserted 
in the corolla-throat; filaments 2 lin. long, hairy in the lower half; 
anther-cells distinct below. Ovary in male flower rudimentary and 
globose, in hermaphrodite flower conical; style divided about halfway 
down, ultimate branches long, linear.—Fhretia acutifolia, Baker in 
Kew Bulletin, 1894, 28. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Ambas Bay, Mann, 768! Johann Albrechtshdhe 
Staudt, 614! Bipinde, Zenker, 1332! 1681! 
24. C. ovalis, R. Br. in Salt, Abyss. Append. 64.—A shrub or 
small tree; branchlets, peduncles, petioles and undersurface of leaves 
fulvo-pubescent. Leaves ovate, obovate or suborbicular, 2-3 in. long, 
