Cordia. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 591 
the Cirears, but chiefly in gardens, hedges, &c. near villages, 
~ Flowers about the end of the temperate, (or cold). season, 
and the fruit is ripe in May and June. — 
Trunk generally crooked, from eight. to pilin feet 
high, and as thick or thicker than a man’s body. Bark 
gray, cracked in various directions. Branches numerous, 
spreading, and bent in every possible direction, forming a 
dense shady head. Leaves scattered, petioled, ovate, oval, 
or obovate, exterior half slightly scolloped, or toothed, 
smooth above, below a little scabrous when old; from two 
to three inches long, and from one and a half to two broad. 
Petioles about one-third the length of the leaves. Stipules 
none... Panicles terminal, and also lateral, globular, dicho- 
tomous. Bractesnone, Flowers numerous, small, white, a 
very large proportion of them are sterile, and they always | 
want the style, Calyx tubular, widening towards the mouth — 
and there torn as it were into three or five divisions, smooth, 
not in the least striated. Corol, divisions of the border re- 
volute. Style in the fertile flowers as in the genus, in the 
barren flowers wanting. Drupe globular, smooth, the size 
of a cherry, sitting in the enlarged calyx, when ripe yellow, 
the pulp is almost transparent, very tough and viscid. Nut 
cordate, at both ends bidentate and perforated, rugose, some- 
what four-sided, four-celled, but it rarely happens that all 
prove fertile. Seeds solitary. 
- The smell of the nut when cut, is heavy and Aexansotb: 
the taste of the kernels like that of fresh filberts, The fruits 
- are not used in this part of India, (the Northern Circars), fox: 
any medicinal purpose. When ripe they are eaten by 1 
natives and also, most greedily, ere sconces: of birds, be- 
ing of a sweetish taste. | 
The wood is soft, and of little use except for fael.: Itis 
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3. C. serrata, LR. . 
i cstesalioas tender parts hairy, Leaves ovate-cordate, ser- 
