780 Borraginaceae. 
middle. Fruit a drupe surrounded by the persistent accrescent 
calyx; endocarp usually bony; cells 4 or by abortion fewer, 1-seeded. 
Seeds ascending, exalbuminous; cotyledons very plicate; radicle short. 
— 'Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, rarely subopposite, petioled, 
entire or crenate-dentate. Flowers arranged in all the Egyptian 
species in panicled cymes with scorpioid branches. Corolla white 
or yellow, varying greatly in size. 
Species about 200, tropical or subtropical, concentrated in America. 
A. Leaves alternate. 
I. Panicles loose in flower Fi hee 1. C. Myxa. 
If. Panicles not loose in flower ....... . . 2. C. crenata, 
B. Leaves opposite or subopposite. ........ 3. C. Gharaf. 
1087. (1.) Cordia Myxa Linn. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 190, — 
Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 124. — DC. Prodrom. IX, p. 479. — Jacq. 
Fragm., tab. 103 fig. 3. — Aschers.-Schweinf. II]. Flor. d@Eg., p. 108 
no. 712. — Delile Ilustr. Flor. d’Eg., p.191 tab. 19 fig. 1—2. — 
Cordia Sebestena Forsk. Flor. aeg.-arab. LXIII not of others. — Cordia 
africana Lam. Illustr. I, p. 420 tab.96. — Cordia officinalis Lam. 
Illustr. I, p. 420 tab. 96. — Cordia domestica Roth Nov. Plant. Spec., 
p. 123. — A handsome tree, with a dense coma, glabrous or the 
foliage scabrous-pubescent. Leaves on rather long petioles, from 
ovate to orbicular, very obtuse or shortly acuminate, entire or irre- 
gularly sinuate, 3 or 5-nerved at the base, usually 5—8 cm long. 
Flowers not large, polygamous, in loose pedunculate cymes or panicles. 
Calyx membranous, about 6 mm long, entire and closed over the 
corolla in the bud, opening irregularly into short lobes without 
prominent ribs when the flower expands, hardened, broadly, cup- 
shaped, and irregularly and broadly toothed or lobed under the fruit. 
Corolla-tube oblong-cylindrical, slightly contracted at the throat, 
nearly as long as the calyx, glabrous inside and out; lobes narrow, 
recurved, as long as the tube. Stamens exserted, but not exceeding 
the corolla-lobes; anthers oblong-linear. Style short, with 4 long 
filiform branches stigmatic along the inner side. Drupe ovoid or 
nearly globular, pale yellow or slightly pink, the pulp very viscid, 
the putamen very hard, usually 1 or 2-celled, with 1 seed in each 
cell. — Flow. January to March. 
M. ma. M. p. Cultivated in old gardens, often naturalized. — 
N. v. Abundantly near Luksor. — 0. Great Oasis. 
Local name: mukheyt. 
Also known from Tropical Africa, Madagascar, Tropical Asia, and 
Queensland. — In India the wood is considered fairly strong, and is used 
for boat-building. well-curbs, gunstocks, and canoes; the bark for rope-making, 
