Cordia. 781 
and the fruit for eating. Medicinally the dried fruit is valued on account 
of its mucilaginous nature and demulcent properties; it is much used in 
coughs and chest affections, also in irritation of the urinary passages; in 
larger quantities it is given in bilious affections as a laxative. — (Dymock, 
Veg. Mat. Med. of W. Ind.) 
1088. (2.) Cordia crenata Del. Illustr. Flor. d’Eg. (18183), 
». 195 tab.20 not of Roem. and Schult. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IY, 
p- 124. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. @Eg., p. 108 no. 713. — 
Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. @Eg., p. 259. — DC. Prodrom. IX, p. 479. 
— Cordia senegalensis var. Pelida Hochst. in Schimp. Hesicc. 2180 
not of DC. — A low tree; branchlets slender, pubescent when quite 
young. Leaves obovate-cuneate, obtuse, 5—8 em long, 2'/, cm 
wide, firm, scabrid above, pubescent beneath, crenate or entire in the 
upper half; lateral nerves about 5 on each side; petiole 8—10 mm 
long, pubescent. Cymes few-flowered. Calyx tubular-campanulate, 
8 mm long, not sulcate, slightly pubescent outside, densely silky 
inside and on the margins; lobes broadly ovate, acuminate, scarious. 
Corolla-tube cylindrical, 8'/, mm long; lobes 5, obovate, obtuse, 
51/, mm long. Filaments much shorther than the corolla-lobes, 
hairy below. Ovary ovoid, gradually, tapering upwards; style deeply 
bipartite; ultimate branches linear, 51/, mm long. Fruit ovoid, 
9mm long, seated upon the enlarged woody campanulate crenately 
toothed calyx. — Flow. March to April. 
N.d. N.v. In old arabian gardens cultivated and sometimes 
naturalized. 
Local name: mukheyt rumy. 
Also known from Tropical Africa. — This is very closely allied to that 
state of Cordia Gharaf Ehrenberg, described by Klotzsch as Cordia quercifolia. 
1089. (3.) Cordia Gharaf Ehrenberg ex Ascherson in Sitzungsber. 
naturf. Freunde Berlin (1879), p. 46. — and in Sitzber. Bot. Ver. 
Prov. Brandenbg. XXI (1879), p. 69. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. 
d’EKg., p. 108 no. 714. — Cordia Rothii Roem. and Schult. Syst. Veg. IV, 
p. 798. — DC. Prodrom. IX, p. 480. — Wight Icon., tab. 1379. — 
Cordia reticulata Roth ex Roem. and Schult. Syst. Veg. IV, p. 454 
not of Vahl. — Cordia oblongifolia Hochst. ex DC. Prodrom. IX, 
p. 480. — Cordia subopposite DC. Prodrom. IX, p.480. — Cordia 
quercifolia Klotzsch in Peters Reise Mozamb. I, p. 247 tab. 43. — 
Cornus Gharaf Forsk. Flor. aeg.-arab., p. XCV. — Cornus sanguinea 
Forsk. Flor. aeg.-arab., p. 33 not of Linn. — A shrub or tree up to 
about 3 m high; branches often bearing lenticels. Leaves sub- 
opposite, oblanceolate or oblong, obtuse, very variable in size, averaging 
6 by 21/, em, sometimes rather unequal at the base, scabrid above, 
