588 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Coi'dia. 



cemes axillary, solitary, simple, much shorter than the leaves. 

 Bractes solitary, subulate, one-flowered. Flowers small, 

 short-pedicelled, greenish white, rather inconspicuous. Calyx 

 five-leaved, or deeply five-cleft, ovate, villous. Corol five- 

 petalled, ovate, first spreading-, afterwards revolute; thrice 

 the length of the calyx, villous. Filaments five, short; in- 

 serted on the petals. Anthers cordate. Germ superior, ovate, 

 one-celled, containing one ovulum, attached to the bottom of 

 the cell. Style short. Stigma rather enlarged, but simple. 

 Berry dry, spherical, size of a grain of pepper, one-celled, 

 one-seeded. Seed, perisperm and embryo as in the former 

 species, viz. copious perisperm, with transverse, serpentine 

 embryo, as in Gaertner's Anguillaria, i. 372. t. 77. 



3. E. vestita. Roxb. 



Shrubby, scandent, very ramous. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 

 attenuate, sub-serrulate. Racemes axillary. 



Oauor Babernng, the vernacular name in Silhet, where it 

 is indigenous in the forests, climbing over trees and shrubs 

 for support. It is uncommonly well furnished with branch- 

 lets and foliage. The flowers are particularly small and de- 

 licate, collected in little oblong, sub-sessile, axillary racemes. 

 They appear in January. 



CORDIA. Schreb. gen. N. 350. 



Calyx one-leaved. Corol sub-cam panulate, five-parted. 

 Germ four-celled; cells one-seeded; attachment lateral. 

 Drupe superior, with a four celled nut, one or two of which 

 only are fertile. Embryo inverse, without perisperm. 



1. C. latifolia. R. 



Polygamous. Leaves round-cordate, entire and repand, 

 three-nerved. Panicles terminal and lateral. Drupes oblate- 

 globose, on a smooth calyx. Nut from one to four-seeded. 



Hind. Bz<ra-lesoor«. 



