128 DE. TKOMSOX ON THE GENUS llEMTGYMNIA, ORirF. 



Note hy Dr. J. D. Koolcer. 



Lieutenant Beddome's plant (Griffith's Hemigymnia) is un- 

 doubtedly a species of Cordia, as Dr. Thomson conjectures, and 

 allied to the C. ahjssinica, Br. (Varronia abyssinica, D.C.), differ- 

 ing, however, from that plant in the pubescent upper surface and 

 dense white woolly tomentum of the under surface of the leaves, 

 which extends over the petioles, ramuli, peduncles, and calyces ; 

 its corolla is also much smaller. On the other hand, C. amplifolia, 

 A. D.C., and O. Wallichii, Don, are both closely allied to C. myxa, 

 and have terete, not grooved calyces. Of C. ovalis, R. Br., too 

 little is known to speak decidedly. I have found imperfect spe- 

 cimens of the same species in Dr. Stocks' collections, but without 

 any habitat ; and others, also without a habitat, have been received 

 from Dr. Gibson, in both cases probably from Central India. I 

 may add, that I find in Dr. Thomson's Kumaon collections fruiting 

 specimens of another anomalous Cordiaceous plant, Gynaion ves- 

 titvm, A. D.C. (inD.C. Prodr. ix. 468), gathered at the same spot 

 as those by Edgeworth, and originally described by A. D.C. - It 

 is, as A. DeCandolle himself suspects, a Cordia allied to C, Grif- 

 jithii and C. abyssinica. I append diagnoses of both. 



CoBDiA M'Leodii {Hf. Sf T.). Arborea, ramis robustis, ramulis 

 foliis subtus inflorescentiaque dense fulvo-tomentosis, foliis late 

 ovatis ovato-cordatisve obtusis margine subsinuato undulatis 

 coriaceis supra pubescentibus, floribus corymbdsis, calyce tubu- 

 loso sulcato 5-fido, corollse lobis parvis angustis. 

 Hemigymnia M'^Leodii, Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. 1843, 



iii. 363 ; Schauer in D.C. Prodr. xi. 697. 



Hah. In India centrali ; Malwah ! Griffith, Beddome. Concan ? 



Gibson, Stocks. 



CoEDiA VESTiTA (Hf. ^ T.). Eamis robustis, ramulis foliis novel- 

 lis et inflorescentia dense sericeo-lanatis, foliis late ovatis ellip- 

 tico-ovatisve acuminatis coriaceis supra scaberulis subtus pubes- 

 centi-tomentosis subsinuatis villosiusculisve, floribus polygamis 

 cymoso-paniculatis, calyce sulcato 4-6-lobo lobis patentibus. 

 Gynaion vestitum, A. D.C. Prodr. ix. 468. 

 Hah. In Himalaya occidentali tropica ; Garwhal ad Pan, alt. 



3000-4000 ped. ! Edgeworth ; T. Thomson. 



