Tas. 5774. 
CORDIA GLABRA. 
Stiooth:leaved Cordia. 
Nat. Ord. Boraginea.—PENTANDRIA Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5027.) 
Corp1a (Sebestenoides) glabra; ramulis teretibus, pedunculis petiolisque 
scaberulo-pubescentibus, ceterum glabra, foliis alternis oppositis v. sub- 
verticillatis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis integerrimis v. subserratis 
in petiolum breviusculum angustatis, subtus reticulatis, cyma brevi 
ramosa ramis scorpioideis, calyce obconico-campanulato breviter 2-4 lobo, 
lobis obtusis acutisve, corolla 5-loba. 
Corpia glabra, Chamisso in Linnea, v. viii. p. 124, non Linn. D.C. Prod. 
v. ix. p. 477. 
A handsome Brazilian stove plant, introduced into the 
Royal Gardens from South America, and flowering late in 
autumn. It has been collected in the neighbourhood of 
Rio de Janeiro and elsewhere in Brazil, by Gardner, (No. 182 
and 5031,) Von Martius, Weir, and other travellers. 
Duscr. A woody shrub. Branches terete; branchlets covered 
with a minute rigid pubescence, which extends over the 
petioles, branches of the cyme, and often the midrib and 
nerves of the leaf below. Leaves variously disposed, usually 
alternate, but occasionally opposite or almost whorled towards 
the ends of the branches, three to eight inches long, oblong- 
lanceolate, variable in breadth, acuminate, tapering below 
into a petiole, one quarter to half an inch long, glabrous and 
shining deep-green above, paler below, with a finely reticu- 
lated venation, quite entire or rarely with sinuate teeth along 
the margins. Cymes terminal, short, branched; branches 
scorpioid, several-flowered. Calyx between obconic and bell- 
shaped, variable in size, one-third to two-thirds of an inch long, 
glabrous, finely striated, shortly and unequally two to four 
lobed at the apex, lobes obtuse or sub-acute, usually hispid 
at the top. Corolla snow-white, two and a half inches in 
May Isr, 1869. 
