Cordia. PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIAs- 593 
from the divisions of the branchlets, or. terminal, small, two- 
forked, composed of short, recurved one-ranked. spikes, 
Flowers white. There is a very large share of male or bar- 
ren flowers which generally occupy distinct parts.of the co- 
rymbs, and frequently the whole. Hermaphroditie flowers 
as in the family, Drupe the size of a cherry, pointed, yellow, 
pulpy: pulp glutinous, as in Myra, .Nut perforated at the 
apex, four.celled. The male flowers want the style entirely, 
bat have the rudiment of a germ. 
B.C. grandis. R 
Leaves round- nilaies obtuse, entire, 5 sub-triple- 
nerved, Panic/es terminal, drooping. //owers tetrandrous, 
A large quick growing tree, native of Chittagong ; in the 
Hon. Company’s Botanic garden its leaves are often a foot 
Jong ; its immensely large, dichotomous, very ramous panicle 
nearly as much; the calyx has an even surface and four- 
toothed mouth, 
6. C. iienmaiin R 
_ Leaves long-petioled, ovate-cordate, repand, acute, ‘Pani- 
eles lateral, Corol campanulate. -Drupes ovate, dry, hid 
in the permanent calyx. 
Novella nigra. Rumph. Amb. 2. 75, is no doubt this plant, 
though it has hitherto been quoted for Cordia Sebestena, 
which is also now before me from the West Indies, in full 
‘blossom in the Botanic garden.at Calcutta, and differs from 
Novella nigra in the following respects, 
Ist. In having larger, cordate, almost entire, obtuse, seab- 
rous leaves ; ‘etait campanulat y are smaller, 
Jonger-petioled; more ovate ; repand, and ag acute, _ 
2d. In having corymbiform terminal panicles, wih iniow- 
dibuliform corols ; on the other hand in campanulata the 
~ panicles are lateral, and the corol ecampanulate. In both, 
= the calyx, stamina, and insite are nearly alike. 
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