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CORDIA* grandifldra. 

 Large-flowered Cordia. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. CordiacejE R. Br. {Introduction to the natural system 

 of Botany, p. 243.) 



CORDIA L. — Calyx tubulosus, 5- raro 4-dentatus. Corolla infundi- 

 buliformis, limbo 5-4-fido. Stamina nuraero laciniarum, raro plura. Stylus 

 dichotomus. Stigmata 4. Drupa calyce partim v. omnino tecta, putamine 



4-loeulari, abortione 1-3-loculari. Cotyledones plicatse. Arbores v. 



Frutices. Folia integerrima, v. incisa. Inflorescentia terminalis, panicu- 

 lata, corymbosa, v. spicata, ebracteata. — Brown prodr. 498. 



C. grandiflora ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis dentato-serratis basi integerrimis, 

 calyce pubescente subtruncato laevi, corollis campanulato-infundibu- 

 laribus calyce 5-6-plo longioribus : laciniis cuspidatis. 



Our drawing of this plant was made in August 1828, in 

 the stove of Mr. Lee, of Hammersmith, where it was said 

 to have been raised from South American seeds. 



Owing to some accident no specimen was preserved, 

 and we now find that the plant has disappeared ; so that 

 we are in possession of no information relating to it beyond 

 what the drawing affords. 



Upon shewing it to Mr. Don, who has made several of 

 the orders of arborescent monopetalous Dicotyledons his 

 particular study, he suggested that the plant was probably 

 a Cordia ; a view which the serrated alternate leaves, and 

 plaited corolla, with cuspidate segments, renders extremely 

 probable. Mr. Don has not, however, succeeded in dis- 



* So called after Euricius and Valerius Cordus, father and son, both 

 among the regenerators of Botany in Germany in the sixteenth century : of 

 the former the Botanologicon, of the latter the Historia Plantarum, are the 

 works that are best known. 



