599 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNTA! Cordia. 
large asa prune, with its nut immersed in mucilaginous pulp, 
‘and separable from it. The second smaller, with its nut ad- 
hering to the pulp (as described by our writers on Materia 
Medica in Europe), but with less mucilage, and sweeter than 
the large one. The rest of the descriptions, he observes, is 
common to both kinds, viz. The leaf round, the fruit grow- 
ing in clusters, when ripe yellow, but afterwards — ; 
black, &e. 
The first, or large sort, is no doubt, the fruit of the tree — 
just now described ; and the small sort that of Cordia Myzxa, 
which has Hitherto}. I believe, been considered in Europe, as 
the only tree which produces this drug; but from the infor-_ 
mation furnished by Mr. Colebrooke we have reason to be-— 
lieve there are two sorts used in medicine by the Asiatics, — 
which are the produce of two trees of the same genus, and 
that the Arabic and Persian names — and Pistan, are 
applicable to both sorts. 
It might be well to give the trivial or viteihes siipatiol 
Sepistana to this broad-leaved tree, which for the present I” 
have called /atifolia ; and the scarlet-flowered West India 
tree, now called Sebestena, 1 would term coccinea, Novella 
nigra, Rumph. Amb, 2. p, 226, t. 75. is no doubt a distinct — 
species, which I have seen and eiquenined; and call Cordia 
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Beng. Bohooari. ; 
Hind. Lusora, or Lesoora, 
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