136 c. BOEAGiNE-a. (C. B. Clarke.) [Cordia. 



Hispid spreading herbs. Corolla yellow, tube elongate . . 30. ARNEBIA. 

 Suberect herbs. Corolla purple, tube elongate 31. MACROTOMIA. 



* Corolla-lobes reduced to minute teeth. 

 Anthers lanceolate, connivent in a cone 32. O> T OSMA. 



1. CORDIA, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs, sometimes subscandent. Leaves alternate, rarely suboppo- 

 site, petioled. Floiuers in dichotomous corymbs or clusters, ebracteate, poly- 

 gamous, hermaphrodite corymbs much fewer-flowered than the male. Calyx 

 tubular or campanulate, teeth very short often irregular, in fruit accrescent. 

 Corolla funnel-shaped ;. lo.bes 4-8, patent or recurved, white or orange. Stamens 

 4-8, filaments often hairy at the base ; anthers shortly exserted. Ovary 

 4-celled, glabrous; style terminal, long, bipartite, branches again bipartite 

 linear or subspathulate ; cells 1-ovuled. Drupe ovoid or ellipsoid, putamen 

 bony, cells 1-4, usually 1 fertile. Seeds exalbuminous. Species 180, all 

 tropical. 



SECT. I. XKyxa. Corolla small, white ; tube hardly so long as the calyx. 

 Stamens usually 4-5. 



* Adult leaves glabrous or subvillous beneath, not tomentose (except in C. 

 obliqua, Willd. var. Wallichii}. , 



t Leaves 3- (or 3-5-) nerved at the base, lateral primary nerves few. 



1. C. XKyxa, Linn., DC. Prodr. ix. 479; branchlets glabrous, leaves 

 ovate or oblong sub-3-nerved glabrous above, corymbs lax many-fid. , calyx 

 glabrous or minutely pubescent without lobes Jbairy within, berry f in. ovoid 

 subacute 1-seeded. Delile Fl. A^g. t. 19, fig. T ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey # 

 Wall. ii. 332; Wall. Cat. .889; Wight III t, 169; Hayne Arzn. Gewach. ix. t. 

 33 ; Dah. fy Gibs. Bomb. FL 173 ; Benth. Fl, Austral, iv. 386 (with si/n.) ; Bedd. 

 For. Man. 165, and Fl. Sylv. t. 245, fig. A; Brand. For. Fl. 336, partly ; Kurz 

 For. Fl. ii. 208 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 124. 0. Myxa, var. /3 minor only, 

 Thwaites Enum. 214. C. indica, Lamk. Diet. vii. 49; DC. Prodr. ix. 500. C. 

 officiualis and africana, Lamk. III. ii. 420, and III. t. 96, fig. 3. C. Sebestena, 

 Forsk. Fl. &g. Arab. Ixiii. C. paniculata, Roth Nov. Sp. 124 ; DC. Prodr. ix! 

 482. Sebestena oificinalis, Gaertn. Fruct. i. 364, t. 76. Ehretia glabra, Roth 

 Nov. Sp. 127; DC. Prodr. ix. 510, ex descr. Beurreria glabra, G. Don Gen. 

 Syst. iv. 390. Rheede Hort. Mai. iv. t. 37. 



Throughout INDIA and CEYLON, alt. 0-3000 ft. ; common wild, and often planted. 

 DISTRIB. From Egypt to Cochin-China and Tropical Australia ; but often cultivated. 



A crooked tree, 40 ft., or a shrub. Leaves alternate, 1-5 in. diam., very variable 

 in form and size, subentire, repand-crenate or snblobate, never acuminate ; above 

 glabrous or very obscurely scabrous without white discs or hairs, beneath scabrous 

 often hairy or subvillous when young; petiole ^-1^ in. Flowers $ and , often on 

 the same tree,-mostly 5-merous. Corymbs 2-8 in., male larger laser, terminal and on 

 short lateral branches (C. reflexa sp., Wight mss.), glabrous or (when young) villous 

 or pubescent. Calyx ^- in. at flower-time, soon much accrescent, tubular-campanu- 

 late, lobes very short. Corolla-lobes -- in., tube hairy within. Stigmas with long 

 linear lobes. Serry yellow or pinkish, glassy, nearly always 1-seeded ; fruiting calyx 

 f in. diam., wide-funnel-shaped, glabrescent, more or less distinctly striated longi- 

 tudinally. Sebesten. 



VAR. brunnea, Kurz For. Fl. 208 ; leaves large, young shoots fulvous-pubescent, 

 young calyx pubescent or subtomentose, berry 1 in. ovoid subacute 1-seeded. C. 

 latifolia, Wall. Cat. 893, ?20 of Eoxb Bengal, Assam, Khasia, Burma, alt. 0-2000 



