5-cleft; lobes imbricated in aestivation; throat closed 

 with hairs radiating towards the centre. Stamens 

 inserted on the sinuses; filaments short: anthers 

 versatile, at length exserted. Ovary deeply 4- 

 parted, lobes distinct from the style with one erect 

 ovule in each. Stigma capitate, two lobed. Nuts 

 1-2, by abortion, angular within, convex and gran- 

 ular on the back, acuminate at the apex, stipitate 

 at the base, shorter than the persistent calyx, seed 

 erect, radicle minute, superior, cotyledons ovoid, 

 thick. 



A Scindean under shrub* Stems woody at the 

 base, decumbent; ramuli herbaceous, clothed with 

 adpressed hairs. Leaves sessile, linear lanceolate- 

 Racemes short, with a terminal bract, opposite 

 the leaves, sub-scorpioid, 2-5-flowered, one of the 

 flowers more remote. Corolla white, lobes of the 

 limb very hairy, lacero-dentate at the apex; throat 

 thickly beset with slender, silky, crispy hairs. 



I am indebted to Mr. Stocks for the specimens 

 from which the accompanying figure is taken and 

 also for the above generic character* 



This new genus seems very nearly allied to 

 Lithospermumy differing principally in the unequal 

 lobed calyx, the very hairy throat of the corolla, 

 and the stipitate nuts, points which I now sus- 



f)ect are scarcely of generic value when so strong- 

 y opposed by habit, as we find them in the pre- 

 sent instance. 



Neither can I hesitate in admitting it to be 

 Wallich's C. tomentosa^ and as both he and Roth 

 have their specimens from the same source, Hyne's 

 Herbarium, I think there is strong reason to infer 

 that Roth's C domestica must also be referred 

 here, unless, which seems not improbable, the two 

 species were mixed in his collection. 



This last supposition seems the more probable, 

 as I can scarcely discover an adequate specific 

 distinction to keep them both up unless that is 

 found in the difference of the flowering season 

 and in the fruit, which I do not know. Feelin 

 confident that this is really Willdmow's plant, 

 have given it a place here, though I doubt its 

 being distinct from C. Myxa, simply with the 

 view of aiding towards clearing up a doubt with 

 respect to the two plants. 



1377. Sericostoma PAtJciFLORUM. (Stocks.) 

 Baikur near Deesa, Scind. 



1378. CoRPiA MrxA (Linn.), branches terete, glab- 

 rous: leaves petioled, ovate, on young trees re- 

 pandly-dentate, afterwards entire; smooth above, 

 roughish beneath : panicles terminal or lateral : 

 flowers somewhat pedicelled, 5-cleft, polygamous: 

 calyx oblong, campanulate, silky within: tube of 

 the corolla about the length of the calyx, lobes 

 oblong linear; stigmas dilated erose on the margin: 

 drupe ovoid mucronate. — Buds tomentose. Drupe 

 yellowish or pale; flesh viscid, nut two celled. 



The fruit, according to Roxburgh, when cut, 

 have a heavy disagreeable smell, but are eat by 

 the natives when ripe. The tree is not very 

 uncommon in some parts of the Coimbatore dis- 

 trict, flowering in December. The flowering sea- 

 son is of short duration, and many of the flowers 

 are sterile and soon drop. Thev are also very 

 apt to separate when drying, so that it is difficult 

 to preserve specimens. 



1378^ CoRDiA oBLiquA (Willd. C. tomeniosa, 



Wallichii 



1379. CoRDiA RoTHii (Raem. and Sch.), leaves 



sub-opposite entire, from lanceolate obtuse to spath- 

 ulate, tapering to the base, petioled, scabrous: 

 corymbs terminal, afterwards axillary, dichotomous, 

 divaricated: flowers 4-5-cleft, pedicelled: calyx 

 obsoletely 4-5-toothed; those of the fruit campanu- 

 late, repandly denticulate on the margin: drupe 

 roundish, smooth, about 4-celled. 



Mysore, flowering in May and June. 



A very distinct species, well named C cuniata 

 by Hyne, many of the leaves being nearly cuniate 

 in their outline. 



1380. CoRDiA FULvosA (R. W.), branchcs glab- 

 rous, terete, young shoots and leaves, petiols, pe- 

 duncle and calyx, before expansion, clothed with 

 short fulvous pubescence: leaves petioled, ovate, 

 obtuse at both ends, sometimes sub-orbicular entire 

 or repandly toothed, smooth, dull or somewhat 

 hoary, being thinly clothed with very short pale 

 fulvous pubescence ; corymbs terminal and ax- 

 illary ; flowers congested on the points of the 

 ramuli: flower buds villous on the apex, obovate: 

 calyx sub-campanulate irregularly 4-6-toothed : cor- 

 olla deeply 4-6-cleft, lobes obovate emarginate, 

 glabrous, tube hairy: stamens as many as the 

 lobes; filaments glabrous, inserted on the mouth 

 of the tube: anthers large, cells somewhat divari- 

 cated at the base: ovary 4-celIed : stigmas filiform: 

 fruit (immature) imbrased at the base by the en- 

 larged cup-shaped calyx, apiculate. 



This species seems to rank next C trichostemon, 

 associating in the peculiar fulvous pubescence with 

 which bom are covered, but differing in the form 

 of the foliage and glabrous filaments. It seems 

 also to associate in many points with C LeschenauUii 

 to which I at first referred it, but on more careful 

 examination cannot quite reconcile it to the char- 



Roth), branches and young shoots glabrous, some- , . - , , 

 what irregularly angled or nearly terete: leaves acter of that species, 

 petioled, suborbicular, quite entire, rounded or cor- 

 date slightly obUque at the base, smooth and 

 glabrous above, when young villous beneath: pani- 

 cles supra axillary on the young shoots: calyx 

 oblong, campanulate, before opening densely tomen- 



tose on the apex, 5-lobed: tube of the corolla somewhat velvety beneath; the young ones tomen- 

 shorter than the calyx, limb 5-cleft, lobes linear tose: panicles terminal sub-racimose, shorter than 



1381. CoRDiA Perrottetii (D. C), branches 

 terete, the younger ones, petiols, and peduncles 

 velutino-scabrous, rufescent : leaves petioled, el- 

 liptic, obtuse at both ends, entire, scabrous above 



stigmas long, exserted, dilated: drupe . 



Malabar, flowering in March. 



A careful comparison of this plant with Willd- 

 mow's figure and description leaves scarcely a 

 doubt on my mind that it is really his plant 



the leaves: calyx oblong obtuse, irregularly tooth- 

 ed, tomentose on both sides: tube of the corolla 

 ecjual to the calyx, 4-cleft, lobes oblong reflexed: 

 stigmas long, exserted. D. C. 

 Bellary, flowering September and October. 



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