518 BORAGINEE 
~BORAGINEZ. 
CORDIA MYXA, Linn, 
Fig. —Delile Fl. Aigypt, t. 19, f.1 3 Wight Iil., t. 169 ; 
Rheede Hort. Mal. wv. t. 87. Small Sebesten Plum (#7ng.). 
Hab. ..(Phroaghout India. Egypt to Cochin-China, Aas | 
tralia, The fruit and bark. | ae 
CORDIA OBLIQUA, Wit. 
Fig.—Bedd. Fl. Sylv., t. 245; Wight Ic., t. 1378. Large 
Sebesten Plum (Eng.). 
_ Hab.—Western India. cs: and Hindustan to ° Ceylon 
The fruit. : a 
GO Sai eae Se . (Hind. ); Bahubéra (Beng.), Bickers ; 
Shélvant (Mar.), Bargund, Gondani (@uz.), Naruvili (Tam.)> 
Nakkera, Botuku (Tel.), Viri (Mal.), Dodachallu (Can.). The | 
adjective great or small is added to these names to ia comeaer : 
the two species. 
History, Uses, &c.—The fruits of these trees are the — 
Selu, Bahuvara, or Sleshmétaka of Sanskrit writers, the — 
Sapistén of the Mahometans, and the Sebestens of old European 
works on Materia Medica. C. Mywa is Supposed by some to — 
: be the kokupnea deyorria of Theophrastus. The natives of India 
_ pickle the fruit of both trees. Medicinally the dried fruit is 
yalued on account of its mucilaginous nature and demulcent 
properties ; it is much used in coughs and chest affections, also 
in irritation of the urinary passages ; in larger quantities it is 
given in Dilious affections as a laxative. Mahometan writers 
describe two kinds of Sapistdn; the greater ay obliqua),. the 
pulp of which is Separable from the stone, and the lesser (@ 
Myzxa), the. pulp of which i is adherent. The word Sapistén is. 
an abbreviation of Bin cs pistan,. esshich, means in Persian ‘ 2 
