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mucilaginous and is employed as a demulcent. The ripe fruit is eaten and the unripe 

 fruit is pickled by the natives. See Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. 



2sote. — I hare included with the above Cordia obliqua, Willd. Phytogr. (1794) p. 4, 

 n. 16, t. 4, f]g. 1 ; Sp. Pi. v. 1 (1797) p. 1072, which is maintained as a separate 

 species by Mr. C. B. Clarke (Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 137). There are no type-speciuiens of 

 Willdenow's plant either at Kew or at the British Museum, which renders it next to 

 impossible to determine accurately the plant to which Willdenow refers in his 

 description. The figure which accompanies that description certainly points to 

 C. Myxa. De Candolle (Prodr. v. 9, p. 479) says that it seems at most a variety of 

 C. Myxa, but is unknown to him, while Trimen (Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 193) makes it a 

 variety of that plant, but is at the same time doubtful as to the ideiitity of the Ceylon 

 plant with Willdenow's species. Wight (Icon. v. 4, part 2, p. 15) is doubtful as to 

 C. obliqua being distinct from C. Nyxa, and curiously enough gives but one figure 

 (t. 1378) for both plants. Talbot, who has had a large experience of the trees of 

 W. India, unites C. obliqua and C. Myxa. The variation in the size of the leaves, 

 flowers, and fruit may be due to conditions of soil and climate. I have seen specimens 

 of C. Myxa grown in the Botanic Garden at Poona with larger flowers than any of 

 those whose dimensions are given in the Flora of British India ; and, as the tree 

 named C. obliqua is very common in Gujarat, the soil and climate of that Province, 

 which has been styled the garden of W. India, may be a powerful factor in promoting 

 luxuriance of growth. 



2. Cordia "Wallichii, G. Don, Gen. JSyst v. 4 (1837) p. 379. A 

 moderate-sized tree. Leaves 4-5 in. long and about as broad as long, 

 orbicular-ovate, glabrous or nearly so and without white discs {njsto- 

 liths) above, densely clothed with stellate, fuhous or white tomentum 

 beneath, base subcordate or truncate, rarely shortly cuneate, 3-5 

 (usually 3) -nerved; petioles 1-1 i in. long. Flowers white, in terminal 

 and lateral paniculate cymes. C^alyx |-^ in. long, closed round the 

 corolla in bud, irregularly splitting into 5 lobes on the expansion of the 

 flower, pubescent inside; tube slightly tomentose or nearly glabrous; 

 the teeth densely tomentose. Corolla about twice as long as the calyx. 

 Filaments hairy at the base. Drupe ovoid, long-acuminate (Tcdbot). 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 174; Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. t. 245; DC. Prodr. v. 9, 

 p. 479 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 243. Cordia obliqua var. WaJlidiii, 

 C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. ¥\. B. I. v. 4, p. 137. — Flowers : Dec-Jan. 



Drier parts of the Presidency, tolerably common. Deccan : between Malsej Ghdt 

 and Ahmednagar, Dahell 4" Gibson. Kanaka : Mandgod division of N. Kauara in 

 deciduous forests, lalbot] Gujarat: common, Talbot. — Distiub. India (W. Peninsula). 



I have retained this as a separate species, to which rank it seems more entitled than 

 C. obliqva. There is no type-specimen of Don's plant cither at Kew or at the British 

 Museum, and it would appear that his original specimen of C. Wallichii cannot be 

 traced. Don says of C. llallickii that the leaves are glabrous above and densely 

 clothed with tomentum beneath, and that the calyx is campanulate and downy. 



3. Cordia Macleodii, IlnoJr. f. 6,' Thoms. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v, 2 

 (1858) p. ]28. A tree 30-4U ft. "high; trunk reaching 2 ft. in diam. 

 {Talbot) ; bark smooth, white, soft. Leaves alternale or sometimes 

 almost subopposite, firm and hard when mature, 2-6 in. long, and nearly 

 as broad as long, ovate, obtuse, 3-5-nerved at the base, the upper surface 

 pubescent when young, rough but shining, usually with white discs, and 

 with impressed nerves \\hcn old, the lower surface densely clothed with 

 grey or tawny Moolly tomentum consistiiig of more or less branched 

 (hardly stellate) hairs; the basal as well as the secondary and transverse 

 tertiary nerves prominent; petioles 1-2 in. long, densely woolly-tomen- 

 tose. Flowers polygamous, eubsessile, in dense paniculate terminal and 

 axillarv tomentose cvmes ; male flowers with a rudiincntarv ovary but 



