194 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



order Cordiaceae, which has an entire ovary and varying fruit. The 

 first three tribes here given do not therefore belong to the Borage 

 family in the old acceptation of the term. 



TEIBE 1. CORBIES. Trees or shrubs, fruit a drupe. 



1 . CORDIA. Flowers in corymbs or clusters, calyx with very 

 short irregular teeth, corolla lobes and stamens 4 to 8, style 

 dividing into 2 or more branches, calyx increasing with the 

 fruit. 



TEIBE 2. EHRETIEJH. Fruit of 2 or 4 nutlets. 



2. EHRETIA. Trees or shrubs, corolla tube short, lobes 5, 

 style bifid. 



3. COLDENIA. Prostrate herbs, corolla funnel-shaped, styles 

 2, sometimes slightly adherent, drupe of 4 pyrenes. 



4. RHABDIA. Calyx and corolla 5 parted, style 1, drupe of 

 4 pyrenes. 



TRIBE 3. HELIOTROPIEJE. 



5. HELIOTROPIUM, Herbs with small flowers, stamens 

 hidden in the corolla tube, fruit of 4 nutlets. 



1. CORDIA. 



1. C. myxa. A good sized tree, leaves broad oval, rough 

 beneath, leathery, flowers white, fragrant, calyx cup-shaped, 

 with many teeth, petals 5, curled back, stamens and pistil 

 exserted, fruit size of a cherry, in stalked clusters, flesh- 

 coloured, the stone imbedded in transparent pulp. Bhokar, 

 lessuri. 



Deccan and Konkan. Throughout India and often cultivated (//.). 

 He has 2 varieties, and calls the leaves very variable in form and 

 size. 



The fruit under the name of Sebesten orSepistan is used in medecine. 

 The tree has been cultivated in Egypt from time immemorial. Le 

 Maout. 



2. C. obligera (C. latifolia, D.). A tree much like the last, 

 leaves large, broad, ovate, slightly waved, nearly smooth, fruit 

 like a plum, smooth and yellow, full of glutinous pulp. Bar- 

 gundy gedori, dahivan. 



Guzerat and Sind ; common ; Deccan. 



JET. includes in this D.'s C. Wallichii, of which the calyx is described 

 as velvety, and the underside of the leaves as densely tomentose and 

 white. 



3. C. Rothii. A poor-looking tree; leaves sub-opposite, 



