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BOBAGINACEJE. 



[COEDIA. 



Nutlets depressed, glochidiate their 

 bases produced downwards . . . 



Nutlets free round the base of the style, 

 not depressed downwards, granular- 

 scabrid, flowers blue or white 

 Nutlets on a flat receptacle, flowers yellow, 



dimorphic 



7. Ctnoglossum. 



8. BOTHRIOSPEBMUM. 



9. Arnebia. 



1. Cordia, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 136. 



Trees or shrubs, sometimes subscandent. Leaves alternate, rarely 

 subopposite, petioW. Flowers in cymes, spikes or heads, polyga- 

 mous (the 2-sexual flowers fewer than the males), ebracteate. Calyx 

 tubular or campannlate, accrescent in fruit, tube often ribbed ; teeth 

 usually 5, short, sometimes unequal. Corolla funnel-shaped, salver- 

 shaped or ca m pan n late, white or orange ; lobes 4-8, si reading or 

 recurved. Stamens 4-8, filaments often hairy at the base; anthers 

 shortly exserted, sagittate or hastate. Ovary 4-celleo!, glabrous ; 

 style terminal, long, bipartite, the branches again biparbite, stigma 

 capitate or spathulate ; ovules 1 in each cell. Fruit an ovoid or 

 ellipsoid drupe with a bony 1-4-celled putamen, usually only one with 

 a fertile seed. Seeds exalbuminous, cotyledons plicate. — Species 

 about 280, all tropical. 



Leaves alternate (sometimes subopposite in 

 C. Macleodii) with 3-5 nerves from near the 

 base. 

 Calyx not ribbed. 



Leaves usually broad with a subcordate or 



cuneate base, calyx campanulate 

 Leaves narrower, deeply dentate towards 

 the apex, calyx cylindrical 

 Calyx distinctly ribbed, leaves tomentose 

 beneath. 



Leaves often subopposite, cordate and 3-5- 



nerved at the base ..... 



Leaves rounded or cuneate at the base, 



with usually three basal nerves 



Leaves nearly or quite opposite, cuneate- 



oblong, with no distinct basal nerves 



1. C. Myxa. 



2. C. crenata. 



3. 0. Macleodii. 



4. C. vestita. 



5. Q. Bothii. 



1. C. Myxa, Linn ; Sp. Bl. 190; Boxb. Fl. Ind. i, 590; Boyle III. 306? 

 Brandis For. Fl. 336 ; Ind Trees 478; F-B.I. iv, 136; Watt E. D.; 

 Kanjilal For. Fl.248; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 500; Collett Fl. Siml. 

 329 ; Brain Beng. PI. 714 ; CooTce Fl. Bomb, ii, 199. C. obliqua, Willd. ; 

 Clarke in F. B. I. iv t 137 ; Watt E. D. C.latifolia, Roxb. Fl, Ind. i, 588. 

 — Vern. Lasora. 



