Cordia. pentandria monogynia. 591 



the Circars,but chiefly in gardens, hedges, &c. near villages. 

 Flowers about the end of the temperate, (or cold) season, 

 and the fruit is ripe in May and June. 



Trunk generally crooked, from eight to twelve feet 

 high, and as thick or thicker than a man's body. Bark 

 gray, cracked in various directions. Branches numerous, 

 spreading, and bent in every possible direction, forming a 

 dense shady head. Leaves scattered, petioled, ovate, oval, 

 or obovate, exterior half slightly scolloped, or toothed, 

 smooth above, below a little scabrous when old ; from two 

 to three inches long, and from one and a half to two broad. 

 Petioles about one-third the length of the leaves. Stipules 

 none. Panicles terminal, and also lateral, globular, dicho- 

 tomous. Bractes none. Flowers numerous, small, white, a 

 very large proportion of them are sterile, and they always 

 want the style. Calyx tubular, widening towards the mouth 

 and there torn as it were into three or five divisions, smooth, 

 not in the least striated. Corol, divisions of the border re- 

 volute. Style in the fertile flowers as in the genus, in the 

 barren flowers wanting - . Drupe globular, smooth, the size 

 of a cherry, sitting in the enlarged calyx, when ripe yellow, 

 the pulp is almost transparent, very tough and viscid. Nut 

 cordate, at both ends bidentate and perforated, rugose, some- 

 what four-sided, four-celled, but it rarely happens that all 

 prove fertile. Seeds solitary. 



The smell of the nut when cut, is heavy and disagreeable, 

 the taste of the kernels like that of fresh filberts. The fruits 

 are not used in this part of India, (the Northern Circars), for 

 any medicinal purpose. When ripe they are eaten by the 

 natives and also, most greedily, by several sorts of birds, be- 

 ing of a sweetish taste. 



The wood is soft, and of little use except for fuel. It is 

 reckoned one of the best kinds for kindling fire by friction. 



3. C. serrata, R. 



Arboreoas, tender parts hairy. Leaves ovate-cordate, ser- 



