136 C. BORAGINER. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Cordia. 
Hispid spreading herbs. Corolla yellow, tube elongate . . 30. ARNEBIA. 
Suberect herbs, Corolla purple, tube elongate . . . . . 31. MACROTOMIA, 
*** Corolla-lobes reduced to minute teeth. 
Anthers lanceolate, connivent in a cone . . . . . . . 232. ONOSMA. 
1. CORDIA, Linn. 
Trees or shrubs, sometimes subscandent. Leaves alternate, rarely suboppo- 
site, petioled. Flowers in dichotomous corymbs or clusters, ebracteate, poly- 
gamous, hermaphrodite corymbs much fewer-flowered than the male. Calyx 
tubular or campanulate, teeth very short often irregular, in fruit accrescent. 
Corolla funnel-shaped ; lobes 4-8, patent or recurved, white or orange. Stamens 
4-8, filaments often hairy at the base; anthers shortly exserted. Ovary 
4-celled, glabrous; style terminal, long, bipartite, branches again bipartite 
linear or subspathulate; cells l-ovuled. Drupe ovoid or ellipsoid, putamen 
bony, cells 1-4, usually 1 fertile. Seeds exalbuminous.—Species 180, all 
tropical, 
Sect. I. Myxa. Corolla small, white; tube hardly so long as the calyx. 
Stamens usually 4-5, 
* Adult leaves glabrous or subvillous beneath, not tomentose (except in C. 
obliqua, Willd. var. Wallichit). 
+ Leaves 3- (or 3-5-) nerved at the base, lateral primary nerves few. 
1. C. Myxa, Linn.; DC. Prodr. ix. 479; branchlets glabrous, leaves 
ovate or oblong sub-3-nerved glabrous above, corymbs lax many-fld., calyx 
glabrous or minutely pubescent without lobes hairy within, berry $ in. ovoid 
subacute l-seeded. Delile Fl. Æg. t. 19, fig. 1; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey § 
Wall. ii. 332: Wall. Cat. 889; Wight IU. t, 169; Hayne Arzn. Gewach. ix. t. 
33; Dalz. § Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 173; Benth. Fl. Austral. iv. 386 (with syn.) ; Bedd. 
For. Man. 165, and FI. Sylv. t. 245, fig. A; Brand. For. Fl. 336, partly ; Kurz 
For. Fi. ii. 208; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 124. C. Myxa, var. B minor oniy» 
Thwaites Enum. 214. C. indica, Lamk. Dict. vii. 49; DC. Prodr. ix. 500. €. 
officinalis and africana, Lamk. IU. ii. 420, and Ill. t. 96, fig. 3. C. Sebestena, 
Forsk. Fl. Æg. Arab. lxii. C. paniculata, Roth Nov. Sp. 124; DC. Prodr. ix. 
482. Sebestena officinalis, Gaertn. Fruct. i. 364, t. 76. Ehretia glabra, Roth 
Nov. Sp. 127; DC. Prodr. ix. 510, ex descr. Beurreria glabra, G. Don Gen- 
Syst. iv. 390.— Rheede Hort. Mal. iv. t. 37. 
Throughout Ixp:4 and Crvrow, alt, 0-3000 ft. ; common wild, and often planted. 
DisrRIB.— From Egypt to Cochin-China and Tropical Australia; but often cultivated. 
A crooked tree, 40 ft., ora shrub. Leaves alternate, 1—5 in. diam., very variable 
in form and size, subentire, repand-crenate or sublobate, never acuminate ; above 
glabrous or very obscurely scabrous without white discs or hairs, beneath scabrous 
often hairy or subvillous when young; petiole 4-14 in. Flowers d and §, often on 
the same tree, mostly 5-merous. Co s 2-8 in., male larger laxer, terminal and on 
short lateral branches (C. reflexa sp., Wight mss.), glabrous or (when young) villous 
or pubescent. Calyx }-4 in. at flower-time, soon much aecrescent, tubular-campanu- 
late, lobes very short. Corolla-lobes 3-4 in., tube hairy within. Stigmas with long 
linear lobes. Berry yellow or pinkish, glassy, nearly always 1-seeded ; fruiting calyx 
3 in. diam., wide-funnel-shaped, glabrescent, more or less distinctly striated long! 
tudinally.—Sebesten. 
Van. brunnea, Kurz For. Fl. 208; leaves large, young shoots fulvous-pubescent, 
young calyx pubescent or subtomentose, berry 1 in. ovoid subacute 1-seeded. C. 
atifolia, Wall. Cat. 893, not of Roxb.—Bengal, Assam, Kbasia, Burma, alt. 0-2000 
