Cordia. pentandria monogynia. 5.93 



from the divisions of the branchlets, or terminal, small, two- 

 forked, composed of short, recurved one-ranked spikes. 

 Flowers white. There is a very large share of male or bar- 

 ren flowers which generally occupy distinct parts of the co- 

 rymbs, and frequently the whole. Hermaphrodite flowers 

 as in the family. Drupe the size of a cherry, pointed, yellow, 

 pulpy : pulp glutinous, as in Myxa. JVut perforated at the 

 apex, lour celled. The male flowers want the style entirely, 

 but have the rudiment of a germ. 



5. C. f/randis. R. 



Leaves round-cordate, obtuse, entire, scabrous, sub-triple- 

 nerved. Panicles terminal, drooping. Flowers tetrandrous. 

 A large quick growing tree, native of Chittagong ; in the 

 Hon. Company's Botanic garden its leaves are often a foot 

 long ; its immensely largo, dichotomous, very ramous panicle 

 nearly as much; the calyx has an even surface and four- 

 tooihed mouth. 



0. C. campanulata. R. 



Leaves fong-petioled, ovate-cordate, repand, acute. Pani- 

 cles lateral. Corol cainpanulate. Drupes ovate, dry, hid 

 in the permanent calyx. 



Novella nigra. Rumph. Amb. 2. 75. is no doubt this plant, 

 though it has hitherto been quoted for Cordia Sebestena, 

 which is also now before me from the West Indies, in full 

 blossom in the Botanic garden at Calcutta, and differs from 

 Novella nigra in the following respects. 



1st. In having larger, cordate, almost entire, obtuse, scab- 

 rous leaves ; where as in C. campanulata they are smaller, 

 longer-petioled, more ovate ; repand, and very acute. 



2d. In having corymbiform terminal panicles, wilhinfun- 

 dibulit'orm corol s ; on the other hand in campanulata the 

 p:i nicies are lateral, and the corol cainpanulate. In L 

 the calyx, stamina, and pisttllum are nearly alike. 



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