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 Cordia Sebestena. Rough-Leaved 



CORDIA, 



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Oafs and Order. 



f>£NTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cor. infundibuliformis. Stylus dichotomus. Dntpa nuclcii 

 fnlocularibus* 



Specific Characler and Synonyms, 



CORDIA Sebejiena ; foliis oblongo-ovatis repandis fcabris. 



Witld. Sp. PL 1. 1073. Haffelq. lU 458. Mart. 



MilL Dicl. n. 3. Bot. Rep. 1. 157. 

 CORDIA foliis fubovatis fubrepandis. Jacq. Amer. 42. 

 CORDIA nucis juglandis folio. Plum. Gen. ncv. 13. Ie. 



105. 

 CORDIA foliis amplioribus, hirtis, tubo floris fubaequali. 



Brown Jam. 202. 

 SEBESTENA fcabra, flore miniato crifpo. Dill, Elth. 341. 



t. 255. /. 331. 

 CARYOPHYLLUS Ipurius inodorus. Shane Jam. 136. Hijl. 



2. p. 20. /. 64. Catrjb. Car. 2. p. 91. /. 91. 

 NOVELLA nigra. Rumph. Amb. 2. p. 226. /. 75. Burm. 



Ind. 59. 

 WANZEY. Bruce s Travels, 5. p. 54. cum tabula ? vix. 



It is not improbable but that more than one fpecies have 

 been included in the above fynonyms, but we have not been 

 able to diftinguifh them. The oriental plant, which is like- 

 wife an inhabitant of the South-Sea Iflands, is every where 

 defcribed as having yellow flowers and fmoother leaves, while 

 that of the Welt-Indies, like ours, is always fpoken of as 

 having fcarlet flowers. The leaves vary iq being more or lefs 



repand, 



