[1. COBDIA. 



Fam. 81. BORA Gift ACE ;E. 



Trees, shrubs or more usually herbs, with alternate 

 exstipulate simple leases and regular flowers usually in 

 dichotomous scorpioid cymes. Corolla gamopetalous often 

 with scales in the throat, petals 4-6 imbricate or sub-valvate 

 with the tips inflexed in bud. St. alternate with the petals. 

 Ovary superior often lobed and style terminal or from 

 between the lobes, 2-celled with each cell 2-ovuled or 

 4-celled, or 4-celled in fruit. Stigma capitate or 2-lobed 

 or style twice bipartite. Fruit drupaceous or of 4 (or 

 fewer) 1- seeded nutlets. Albumen present or not. Radicle 

 superior. 



A large number of herbs belong to this family with 4, often 

 glochidiate, nutlets which adhere to the clothing. Cynoglossum. 

 denUeulatum, A.D.C. especially, is a great pest. 



Small trees or shrubs. Calyx shortly 4-8-lobed. 

 Style twice 2-partite .1. Cordia. 



Small trees. Calyx small anb-5 partite. Style 2-fid. . 2. Ehretia. 

 Shrub. Calyx 5-partite. Style undivided. Stigma 

 2-lobed 3. Rhaldia. 



1. Cordia, L. 



Trees or shrubs. Fls. in corymbose sometimes fascicled 

 cymes, polygamous. Calyx tubular or campanulate with 

 very short lobes or, sometimes (C. My xa), lobes about as 

 long as the tube, often unequal, accrescent in fruit. Buds 

 often apiculate, corolla tubular or funnel-sbaped with 4-8 

 recurved petals. St. 4-8 usually hairy at base, anthers 

 large exserted. Ovary 4-celled. Drupe with a hard 1-4- 

 cel led stone. Albumen 0. L. often furnished with cystolith 

 cells, which may appear as superficial discs (old leaves are 

 required however for comparison). 



A. Trees. L. over 3" long. 



L. ob,long, ell., or obovate. Superficial discs absent 

 or as small dots. Petiole slender usually £4 r d 

 as long as blade 1. Myta, 



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