Cordia. pentandria monogynia. 589 



A native of Hindoosthan and introduced by the late Gene- 

 ral Martin, into the Botanic garden at Calcutta, where it blos- 

 soms during the cold season ; and the fruits ripen in June and 

 July. They are much larger than those of C. Myxa, smooth, 

 and of a beautiful pale straw colour covered with a whitish 

 bloom. 



Trunk short and generally crooked, as in Myxa; the bark 

 also scabrous and crooked. Branches numerous, spreading, 

 and drooping ; young shoots angular and smooth; the general 

 height of trees ten or twelve years old is about twenty feet. 

 Leaves alternate, petioled, from round to cordate and ovate, 

 often slightly repand, three-nerved ; texture hard, smooth 

 above, scabrous and pale underneath, from three to seven, or 

 even eight inches long, and rather less in breadth. Petioles 

 nearly round, and smooth. Stipules none. Panicles short, 

 terminal and lateral, roundish; ramifications alternate, diver- 

 ging, and once or more dichotomous. Flowers numerous, 

 small, white. Bractes minute, villous* Calyx villous, cam- 

 panulate, leathery ; mouth unequally dentate. Corol short, 

 canipanulate ; segments five, linear-oblong. Filaments as long 

 as the segments of the corol, and inserted immediately under 

 their fissures. Anthers incumbent. Germ ovate, four-celled; 

 with one ovuluni in each attached to the upper end of the 

 axis. Style short. Stigma four-cleft ; segments four-cleft, long, 

 rugose, and recurvate. Drupe oblate-spheroidal, about an 

 inch or an inch and a quarter in diameter, smooth, when ripe 

 yellow. Pulp in large quantity, soft, clear, and very clam- 

 my ; (the natives eat it freely,) one-celled. Nut nearly cir- 

 cular, laterally compressed, rugose on the outside, with a ca- 

 vity at each end, the lower one deeper than the other, exceed- 

 ingly hard, four-celled, though rarely all fertile. Seed solitary, 

 ovate-oblong. Integument single, white, soft and oily. Pla- 

 mula very small. Radicle conic, superior. 



Mr. Henry Colebrooke, who is intimately acquainted with 

 Hindoo literature, informs me that the writers on Indian 

 Materia Medica notice two sorts of Sepistan. The first as 



