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species ranges from the East Indies, Zanzibar, and Madagascar across the Pacific to 
Hawaii. Doctor Hillebrand thinks that its distribution throughout Polynesia has 
been due to human agency. @ 
REFERENCES: 
Cordia subcordata Lam. Ilustr. 1: 421, no, 1899. 1791. 
Cordyline hyacinthoides. Bow-sTRING HEMP. 
Family Liliaceae. 
LocaL NAMES.—Tigre (Guam, Philippines) 
A stemless plant with succulent, thick, fibrous, sword-shaped leaves, having a 
sheathing base and a straight spine at the apex. It takes its local name from the 
variegated coloration of the leaves. Flowers inconspicuous, greenish-white, disposed 
in the form of a raceme rising from the center. 
The leaves yield an excellent, soft, silky, elastic fiber, from which in ancient times 
the Hindus made their bowstrings. In Guam the plant is cultivated for ornament, 
many of the natives having it growing in their gardens and in pots, but not other- 
wise utilized. In Manila a double line of it borders the walk approaching the palace. 
REFERENCES: 
Cordyline hyacinthoides (1.) 
Aloe hyacinthoides L. Sp. Pl. 1: 821.1753. 
Aloe hyacinthoides zeylanica LL, Sp. Pl. 1: 821. 1753. 
Aletris hyacinthoides zeylanica LL. Sp. Pl. ed. 2. 1: 456. 1762. 
Sanseviera zeylanica Willd. Sp. Pl. 2: 159, 1799. 
The earliest post-Linn:ean use of the name Cordyline was by Adanson, Fam. PI. 
2: 54, 543. 1763, who gives Royen as the authority for the name, but apparently does 
not use it in the same sense in which it was employed by that author, Royen 
included in his genus Cordyline two species of the Linnzean genus Yucca and a third 
cited by Linneus under the latter’s Asparagus draco, while the specific references 
given by Adanson, ‘‘ Katukapel, H. M. 11: ¢. 42, Aloe Comm. H. 2. t. 20, 26, Pluk. 
t. 256. f. 6., and Lin, Sp. 821. No. 4.,”” are associable by citation with the species 
named by Linnzeus Aloe hyacinthoides, or with one of its subspecies. The modern 
use of the name, however, appears to be in the sense in which it was mentioned by 
Jussieu, Gen. Pl. 41.1789, and does not include any of the species included in it by 
either Royen or Adanson, ‘‘Cordyline”’ is accordingly here used as the name of the 
genus for which it was first properly published after 1753.—W. F. Wiaar. 
Cordyline terminalis Kunth. See Taetsia terminalis. 
Corkwood. See Purili tiliacewm. 
Cormigonus mariannensis. TorCHWOOD. 
Family Rubiaceae. 
LocaL Names. —Giusali (Guam). 
A small tree growing in rocky places, and especially abundant on the Peninsula of 
Orote and the island of Apapa, bearing a profusion of white trumpet-shaped flowers, 
appearing from a distance somewhat like morning-glories, but 4-parted. The wood 
ignites easily and is used for torches. 
REFERENCES: 
Cormigonus mariannense (Brongn. ) 
Bikkia mariannensis Brongn. Bull. Soe. Bot. Fr. 18: 42. 1866. 
The name Cormigonus Raf. 1820 is several years earlier than Bikkia. 
Coromandel gooseberry. See Averrhoa carambola, 
Cotorrera (Porto Rico). See Heliotropum indicum. 
Cotorrera de la playa (Porto Rico). See Heliotropum curassavicum. 
Cotton. See Gossypium arboreum and G. barbadense. 
«Flora, Hawaiian Islands, p. 321, 1888. 
