LXXXYII. BOUAGiyACE,!;. 100 



or orange ; lobes 4-8, imbricate, reflexed or spreading. Stamens as 

 many as the corolla-lobes, exserted or included ; filaments often hairy 

 at the base. Ovary 4-celled ; ovule solitary in each cell, erect ; style 

 terminal, elongate, bipartite, the branches again bipartite ; stigma capitate 

 or clavate. IVuit usually with viscid pulp, dinipaceous, of 4 or fewer 

 l-seeded cells ; putamen often bony. Seeds exalbuminoiis ; cotyledons 

 phcate ; radicle short. — Disteib. Tropics ; species about 250. 



Leares alternate (sometimes ahuost subopposite iu C. Maclcodil), 

 3-5-nervcd at base. 



Filaments hairy at the base. 

 Calyx not ribbed. 



Leaves not tomentose beneath 1 . C. Mi/.ra. 



Leaves stellately tomeutose beneath 2. C. Wallichii. 



Calyx ribbed. 



Leaves reaching 6 in. in diani., ovate, cordate, densely 



tomentose beneath 3. C. Macleodii. 



Filaments glabrous. 



Leaves reaching 6 in. long; petioles 1-1 1 in. long 4. C.ftdvosa. 



Leaves not exceeding 3 in. long; petioles less than ^iu. long. 5. C. monoica. 

 Leaves subopposite, feather-nerved 6. V. Rothii. 



1. Cordia Myxa, Linn. Sp. PL (1753) p. 190. A moderate-sized 

 deciduous tree reaching 40 ft., or a large shrub ; bark dark-colored, 

 rough, fissured ; branchlets usually glabrous. Leaves alternate, 3-5 by 

 2^-4| in., broadly ovate, obtuse, entire or the margins more or less 

 sinuate-dentate, glabrous and more or less scabrous above without white 

 discs (cystolifhs) on the upper surface, base rounded or cordate or some- 

 times shortly cuneate ; basal nerves 3 (rarely 5); petioles |-lg in. long. 

 Flowers white, polygamous ( d and ^ ), in large lax terminal and axillary 

 pedunculate cymose panicles ; peduncles 1-2 in. long ; pedicels short ; 

 buds pyriform. Calyx i-^ in. long, glabrous or nearly so outside, 

 pubescent inside, entirely closed over the corolla in bud, afterwards 

 irregularly splitting on the expansion of the flower into about 5 shallow 

 lobes. Corolla-tube as long as the calyx; lobes 5, oblong, obtuse, some- 

 times emarginate, narrow, recurved, equalling the tube. 'Filaments 

 hairy at the base. Drupe ovoid, g-l in. long, pinkish-cream-colored or 

 nearly black, shining, minutely rugose, apiculate with the remains of the 

 style, supported by the saucer-shaped irregularly 5-10-lobed more or 

 less longitudinally striate glabrous calyx. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 136; Grab. 

 Cat. p. 13G; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 173;' Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. t. 245, A; 

 Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 193; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 243; Woodr. 

 iu Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 169 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 

 V. 2, p. 563. Cordia obliqna (sp.), Willd. Phytogr. (1794) p. 4; C. B. 

 Clarke, in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 137 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 12 (1898) p. 169 ; Var. /3. obliqua, Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 193. 

 C. latifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, v. 2, p. 330 ; Grab. Cat. p. 136 ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 173. — Flowers : Mar.-Apr. Vern. Bhohar ; Gamlani. 



Throughout the Presidency and Sind in deciduous forests. Konkan : Stocks !, Laiv ! ; 

 on the Ghats and about villages, Graham ; Eambag Matheran, H. M. Birdwood. 

 Deccan : Poena, Cooke] ; Sakkar Pathar liill, Woodrovj ; Lauoli wood, Ganimie. 

 Gujarat : common, Dal~eU ^' Gibson. — Distrib. Throughout India, wild and 

 cultivated ; Ceylon, Egypt, Cochinchina, and Tropical Australia, often planted. 



The tree is often cultivated. The fruit, knowu as Sebestcn, is officinal. It is very 



