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BOEAGINACE^l. 



[CORDIA. 



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. BOTHRIOSPERMTJM. 



9. ARNEBIA. 



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



Trees or shrubs, sometimes subscandent. Leaves alternate, rarely 

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

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

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

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

 shaped <>r campanulate, white or orange ; lobes 4-8, spreading or 

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

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

 style terminal, long, bipartite, the branches aerain bipartite, stigma 

 capitate or spathulate ; ovule? 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 

 at out 280, all tropical. 



Leaves alternate (sometimes subopposite in 

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

 base. 



Calyx not ribbed. 

 Leaves usually bioad with a subcordate or 



cuneate base, calyx campanulate . . 1. 0. Myxa, 

 Leaves narrower, deeply dentate towards 



the apex, calyx cylindrical . , . 2. C. crenata. 

 Calyx distinctly ribbed, leaves tomentose 

 beneath. 

 Leaves often subopposite, cordate and 3-5- 



nerved at the base . . . . . 3. 0. Macleodii. 

 Leaves rounded or cuneate at the base, 



with usually three basal nerves . . 4. C. vestita. 

 Leaves nearly or quite opposite, cuneate- 

 oblong, with no distinct basal nerves . . 5. 0. Rothii* 



I, C. Myxa, Linn ; Sp. PI. 190; Roaib. PL Ind. i, 590; Eoyle III. 806* 

 Brandis For. Fl. 836; Ind Trees 478; F.B.I, iv, 186; Watt E. D.; 

 Kanjilal For. FL248; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 500; CoUett Fl. Siml. 

 329; Prain Peng. PL 714; CooTce Fl. Bomb, ii, 199. C. obliqua, Willd. ; 

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

 Vern. Lasora. 



