RECENT REVISIONS OF CEYLON BOTANY. " 159 



S. cinnamomifolia Thw. In Herb. Peradoniya are (1) C. P. 

 1867, Hantane, 1859; and (2) C. P. 1867, Galle, Caj)t. 

 Champion ; Hantane, &c., Gardner. It is loiown to occur 

 at Henaratgoda. 



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(6) Hutchinson J. Cordia Myxa and Allied Species. Kew 

 Bulletin, 1918, pp. 217-222. 



The author has made a critical examination of the Kew 

 herbarium specimens attributed to Cordia Myxa, and has 

 come to the conchision that the true Cordia Myxa L. is in all 

 probability confined to Asia Minor and Egypt, where it is 

 mostly found in cultivation. The plant attributed to this 

 species in India and Ceylon is Cordia obliqua Willd. 



Cordia Myxa has " Style arms short and broad, expanded 

 fanwise towards the apex and with lobulate margins ; leaves 

 always more or less orbicular, entire or obscurely repand in the 

 upper parts, always lightly covered all over the lower surface 

 with white, short, setulose hairs, flabellately 5-7-nerved from 

 the base ; anther filaments nearly glabrous from the base." 



Cordia obliqua has " Style arms long and slender and only 

 sometimes slightly expanded at the apex ; leaves variable, 

 but usually penninerved at the base, if hairy, then the hairs 

 fairly long and mainly in the axils of the nerves and near the 

 midrib ; anther filaments rather densely setose-pilose towards 

 the base." 



The following synonymy is given : — 



" Cordia obliqua Willd. Phytogr. 4, t. IV. (1794) ; Sp. PL, 



I. (1797) ; DC. Prodr., IX., 479 (1845) ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. 



Fl. Brit. Ind., IV., 137, excl. var. (1883) ; Watt, Diet. Econ. 



Prod. Ind., II., 565. C. indica Lam. Diet., VII., 49 (1806) ; 



DC. I.e. 500. C. latifolia Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Car. & Wall., II., 



330 (1824) ; Dalz. et Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 173. C. Myxa Roxb.^ 



I.e. 332 ; Wall. Cat. 889 ; Wight, 111., t. 169 ; Dalz. et Gibs. I.e. ; 



Benth. Fl. Austral., IV., 386 ; Bedd. For. Man. 165, et Fl. Sylv. 



t. 245, fig. A ; Brand. For. Fl. 336 ; Kurz, For. Fl., II , 208 ; 



Thwaites, Enum. 214 ; C. B. Clarke I.e. excl. var. ; Watt, 



I.e. 563 ; Gamble, Man. Ind. Timb., 500-501 ; Merrill, Interp. 



Rumph. Herb. Amboin. 447 (1917) ; non. Linn. Vidi-maram, 



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