386 Lxxx. BORAGINE.E. [Cordia. 



spreading tree, the young shoots pubescent. Leaves on rather long petioles, 

 veiy broadly ovate, acute or acuminate, often slightly cordate at tlie base, 

 the upper surface scabrous with small scattered hairs, bearded underneath 

 with short hairs in the axils of the principal veins or along their whole 

 length, 4 to 6 in. long. Flowers not numerous, large, white, in shortly 

 pedunculate loose cymes. Calyx tubular, about ^ in. long, without promi- 

 nent ribs, shortly and irregularly lobed, enlarged after flowering and closing 

 over the fruit. Corolla broadly funnel-shaped, 2 or 3 times as long as the 

 calyx, with 5 to 7 broad lobes, much shorter than the tube, spreading to 

 from 1 to II- in. diameter. Anthers included in the tube. Style forked, 

 each branch with 2 spathulate stigmatic lobes. Drupe nearly globular but 

 contracted at the top, about 1 in. diameter, completely enveloped iu the 

 enlarged calyx.— Seem. Fl. Vit. t. 34 ; C. oriental^, E. Br. Prod. 498. 



W. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R, Brown, Ilenne ; Port Essing- 

 ton, Armstrong ; Escape Cliffs, Hulls, 



Queensland. Hope Islets, M'GUHvray, 



The species is also on the Mozambique coast and Comoro Islands, and in the Indian 

 Archipelago extending to the Philippines and Pacific Islands ; in India perhaps only where 

 cultivated. 



2. C. aspera, Ford. Prod, 18. A tree of 20 to 30 ft., the young 



shoots rusty-pubescent or villous. Leaves petiolate, ovate, acuminate with 

 the point sometimes much elongated, iiTegularly toothed or rarely entire, 

 membranous, sprinkled above with short scattered'hairs, the veuis nndenieath 

 scabrous pubescent or hirsute, 3 to H iu. long iu some specimens, twice as 

 large in others. Flowers small, in shortly pedunculate, rather dense cymes. 

 Calyx scarcely above 2 linp=; Tnnrr tnh^iinv i,i-i.oi.t^ ^^^{\^ 1 nr 12 nrominent 



so 



lonir 



Ulyx scarcely above 2 lines long, tubular, hirsute, with 10 or 13 pi 

 ribs and 5 or G small linear teeth. Corolla-tube cylindrical, scarcely 

 as the calyx ; lobes ovate, undulate and crisped, much shorter than the tul)e. 

 btamens scarcely exserted ; anthers small. Style forked, with spathulate 

 shortly 2-lobed branches. Drupe ovoid-pyramidal, not exceeding \ ni. and 

 sometimes much smaller, resting on the broad open calyx ; putanien hard, 

 very rugose, ripening usually only a single seed.-DC. Prod. ix. i09 ; Seem. 

 PI. Vit. 169. t. 35 ; F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 114. 



Queensland. Rockingham Bay, Da/Z^e/zy. 



Var. indso-dentata . Leaves (aU young in tlic spcciuieus seen) Irregularly ^''^ ^^'fl 



bed, but the tcetli perhaps not so promiueut in the adult state.— i'- "^ 



nrrm ,r TOO r\ ir i -r. . 



A handsome tree, with a 



toothed, almost lobed 



rata, F. Muell. Fragra. v. 193.— Cape York, BaemeJ. 

 The species is also in the islands of the South Pacific 



3. C. Myrca, Linn.; DC. Prod. ix. 479. i^ uauu..^.^ - -^ ,, . 

 dense coma, glabrous or the foliage scabrous-pubescent. Leaves on rail ej 

 long petioles, from ovate to orbicular, very obtuse or shortly aciiimniate, 

 entire or irregularly sinuate, 3- or 5-nerved at the base, usually 2 to 3 .n. 

 long. Flowers not large, polygamous, in loose pedunculate cymes or pnu«^le- 

 Caly^x membranous, about 3 lines long, entire and closed over the corolla " 

 the bud, opening irregularly into short lobes u ithout prominent ribs^f '^'i J. ^ 

 too 1 . r^ l"f ''/''^r^'^' ^'^"^'"^^ cup-shaped, and irregularly and broad J 

 con rlf T t:^ "t^^"' '^'' '■^^"t- CorolLn-tube oblong^cyliudrical, sbght 5 

 contracted at the throat, nearly as long as the calyx, glabrous inside and out, 



