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TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



Corolla white with a yellow ceutre ; fruit entirely or partly inclosed in the thin many- 

 ribbed tomentose orange-brown calyx ; leaves oval or oblong-ovate. 



2. C. Boissierl (E, H). 



1. Cordia Sebestena, L. Geiger-tree. 



Leaves unfolding through a large part of the year, ovate, short-pointed or 

 rounded at the apex, rounded, subcordate, or wedge-shaped at the base, entire or 

 remotely and coarsely serrate above the middle, when they unfold covered, like the 

 branches of the inflorescence, the outside of the calyx, and the young branchlets, with 



thick dense rusty tomentum and with short rigid pale hairs, and at maturity thick and 

 firm, dark green, scabrous-pubescent, or often nearly glabrous below, reticulate-venu- 

 lose, 5'-6' long and 3'-4' wide, with broad midribs usually covered below with pale 

 hairs, especially in the axils of remote primary veins connected by conspicuous cross 

 veinlets; their petioles stout, pubescent, I'-l^' long. Flo"wers appearing throughout 

 the year on slender pedicels, in open flat cymes 6'-7' in diameter, some individuals 

 producing flowers with short included stamens and elongated styles, and others with 

 exserted stamens and included styles; calyx tubular, ^'-f long, and obscurely many- 

 rayed, Vv^ith short nearly triangular rigid teeth; corolla orange or flame color, puber- 

 ulous on the outer surface, with a slender tube about twice as long as the calyx and 

 spreading rounded lobes, irregularly undulate on the margins and I'-l^' in diameter 

 when fully expanded; ovary conical, glabrous, contracted into a slender style 

 branclied near the apex. Fruit broadly ovate, rather abruptly narrowed and pointed 

 at the apex, concave at the base, l^'-l^' long and about f broad, inclosed in the 

 thickened fibrous calyx smooth and ivory-white on the outer surface; flesh thin, pale, 

 and corky, separable from the irregularly sulcate thick-walled stone gradually nar- 

 rowed and acuminate at the apex, and deeply lobed at the base; seeds linear-lance- 

 olate, ^' long, with a delicate white seed-coat. 



A tree, in Florida 25-30 high, with a tall trunk 5'-6' in diameter, slender upright 

 branches forming a narrow close round-topped head, and stout branchlets with thick 

 pith, dark green at first, becoming ashy gray and marked by large nearly orbicular 

 cordate leaf-scars displaying 2 central circular clusters of fibro-vascular bundle-sears. 

 Bark of the trunk ^'-f thick, dark brown, frequently nearly black, and deeply 

 and irregularly divided into narrow ridges broken on the surface into short thick 



