593 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. CorcUa. 



large as a prune, with its nut immersed in mucilaginous pulp, 

 and separable from it. The second smaller, with its nut ad- 

 hering to the pulp (as described by our writers on Materia 

 Medicu in Europe), but with less mucilage, and sweeter than 

 the large one. The rest of the descriptions, he observes, is 

 common to both kinds, viz. The leaf round, the fruit grow- 

 ing in clusters, when ripe yellow, but afterwards turning 

 black, &c. 



The first, or large sort, is no doubt, the fruit of the tree 

 just now described ; and the small sort that of Cor dia Myxa, 

 which has hitherto, I believe, been considered in Europe, as 

 the only tree which produces this drug; but from the infor- 

 mation furnished by Mr. Colebrooke we have reason to be- 

 lieve there are two sorts used in medicine by the Asiatics, 

 which are the produce of two trees of the same genus, and 

 that the Arabic and Persian names Sepistan and Pistan, are 

 applicable to both sorts. 



It might be well to give the trivial or specific appellation 

 Sepistana to this broad-leaved tree, which for the present I 

 have called latifolia ; and the scarlet flowered West India 

 tree, now called Sebestena, I would term coccinea. Novella 

 nigra. Rvmph. Arab. 2. p. 226. t. 75. is no doubt a distinct 

 species, which I have seen and examined, and call Cordia 

 campanulata. 



2. C. Myxa. Willd. i. 1072. 



Polygamous. Leaves oval, repand. Panicles terminal, 

 and lateral. 



Vida marum. Rheed. Mai. 4. t. 37. 



Sebestena officinalis. Gcert. sem. 1. p. 363. /. 76. 



Benrj. Bohooari. 



Hind. Lusora, or Lesoora. 



Teling. Nekra. 



The dried fruit of this tree is the Sebestena of the Materia 

 Medica. 



It is a pretty large, but low tree, growing in most parts of 



