el. 
It is to be regretted that, as was the case with the plant we 
figured for C. superba, we know nothing of its native country 
or introduction ; and only that it is an old inhabitant of the 
warm stove in the Royal Gardens of Kew, with the blossoming 
of which, during the sunny season of the summer of 1857, we 
could not fail to be struck. The section of the extensive genus - 
Cordia (now that nearly all the Varroni@ are included in it) to 
which this species belongs, is undoubtedly § Sebestenoides (Cordie 
_Macranthe, Cham.), including twelve species, some inhabitants 
of the Old, some of the New World, none of them in characters 
according with the present species. 
Descr. A small ¢ree, as cultivated with us, twelve to fourteen 
feet high, probably, in its native country, like the C. macrophylla 
of Jamaica, forty to fifty feet; much branched, dranches terete, 
brownish from close-pressed minute villous down. Leaves much 
confined to the branchlets, on terete petioles two to three inches 
long, obovato-lanceolate, a foot to sixteen inches in length, five 
inches wide in the broadest part, acute or only shortly and gra- 
dually acuminate, opaque on the surface (not glossy), tapering 
below gradually into the petiole, the upper half has the margins 
very coarsely dentato-serrate, the teeth unequal in size, and spinu- 
lose or mucronulate ; glabrous above, petioles and younger leaves 
obscurely pubescent on the midrib and some of the principal : 
prominent veins beneath. Panicle large, terminal. Peduncle 
and pedicels as well as the calyx downy ; the latter sessile and _ 
subsecund on the branchlets, cylindrical or suburceolate, in bud 
conical and apiculate at the point; /imd of two or three unequal 
short spreading lobes. Corolla one and a half inch in diameter, 
in form between infundibuliform and campanulate, white or 
yellowish-white, wrinkled (plicate): the Zimé of five large rounded 
spreading lobes. Stamens five, inserted near the base of the 
corolla, shorter than the tube; filaments hairy at the base; 
anther oval, cordate at the base. “ Ovary subrotund, four-celled, 
_ (each cell with one ovule), tapering upwards into a bifid style, 
- 
vith a three-lobed stigma. 
Fig. 1. Base of a corolla laid open, with stamens and pistil. 2. Transverse — 
section of an ovary :—magnified. 
