Cordia. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 595 
Panicles terminal, in the male more divided, pubescent 
er lowers sniatl, White: ours) See ate 
HERMAPHRODITE FLOWERS on a ‘separate tree. Calyx - 
narrow-campantilate ; mouth irregularly four or five-tooth- 
ed, villous on the outside.  Corol funnel-shaped. | Border 
four or five-cleft ; divisions linear, revolute. Filaments four, 
or five, shorter than the seg'ments of the border of the corol. 
Anthers incumbent. Germ superior, ovate, four-celled, with 
one ovulum in each, attached to the axis, Style twice two- 
cleft, Stigma rather small, but rounded, Drupes oval, the 
size of a black currant, smooth, when ripe yellow. Pulp 
mucilaginous, as in the officinal fruit of C. myxa, one-celled. 
Nut very hard, ovate, longitudinally perforated through the 
centre, four-celled, Seed solitary, ovate, &c. &c. almost ex- 
actly as in Sebestina officinilis, Gert. sem. 1. p- 364. ‘. 76. 
p. tl. 
Mate Frowers on a different plant. — Cdtie tna corol as 
in the hermaphrodite, but more generally divided into four, 
Filaments generally four, as long as the corol. Germ a sphe- 
rical, abortive body, without style or stigma. 
Obs. In the early part of my botanical career, a very short 
description and drawing of the male plant were sent with my 
other dispatches of the same nature, to the Honourable the 
Court of Directors under the name a alternifolia, 
pers. Ne 165. 
me CU: eajuizpohac n : 
Leaves sub-opposite, lanceolate, scabrous. Panicles ter- 
minal. Flowers tetrandrous. Bsa twice two-cle . | Nu 
four-celled, ee 
A native of Mysore, Fil thence Dr. atta sent the 
seeds to the Botanic garden at Calcutta, in 1800, and in May 
1803, the trees were in blossom for the first time. 
Trunk short. Branches numerous, spreading in every di- 
ction, with their long, slender extremities often drooping. 
Bark ash-coloured and pretty smooth, Leaves sub-opposite, 
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