CORDIACE^E. I. CORDIA. 



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pedunculate ; flowers tetramerous ; calyxes campanulate, and 

 are, as well as the fruit, smooth. T? . S. Native of New Hol- 

 land, within the tropic. 



Dichotomous Cordia. Clt. 1824. Tree 30 feet. 



3 C. SEBESTE'NA (Jacq. amer. 42. ed. 2d. t. 44. Lin. spec, 

 ed. 1. p. 1073.) leaves ovate, acute, or elliptic, quite entire, 

 hispid, scabrous above ; peduncles terminal, corymbose ; calyx 

 smooth, clothed with hispid tomentum : limb of corolla 7-cleft, 

 with a glabrous throat. T; . S. Native of Cuba, about the 

 Havanna, St. Domingo, &c. Andr. bot. rep. t. 157. Curt, 

 hot. mag. t. 794. Tratt. tab. t. 354. Lam. ill. no. 1898. t. 

 96. f. 1. C. juglandifolia,, Jacq. amer. 43. C. speciosa, Willd. 

 rel. ex Roem. et Schultes, syst. 4. p. 799. Plenck, icon. t. 115. 

 Plum. gen. 13. icon. 105. Sloan, jam. 2. p. 20. t. 164. 

 Branches glabrous in the adult state, but clothed with hispid 

 tomentum while young. Leaves 4-5 inches long, rather unequal 

 at the base. Calyx 2-6-toothed ; teeth bluntish. Corolla fun- 

 nel-shaped, orange coloured, or tawny yellow ; limb spreading, 

 5-7 parted, with crenately undulated edges. Stamens exserted, 

 glabrous. The young leaves are serrated, the full grown ones 

 hardly repand, and the upper certainly quite entire. A small 

 piece of the wood put on a pan of lighted coals will perfume 

 the whole house with a most agreeable smell. The flower in 

 Jacquin's figure is coloured like that of the bloody-wallflower. 

 Browne says that the flower in the Jamaica plant is scarlet. 

 Said by Cham, to be very nearly allied to C. Abyssinica. 



Sebeslena Cordia. Fl. June, Aug. Clt. 1728. Tree 10 to 

 35 feet. 



4 C. DILLE'NII (Spreng. syst. 1. p. 649.) leaves ovate-oblong, 

 acutish, repandly serrated, scabrous on both surfaces ; pedun- 

 cles terminal, sub-corymbose ; calyx tridentate ; segments of 

 corolla usually 7, roundish, undulated ; stigmas revolute. F; . 

 S. Native of the Bahama Islands. C. Sebestena, Willd. spec. 



1. p. 1076. Dill, elth, p. 341. t. 255. f. 331. Catesb. car. p. 



2. t. 91. Corolla orange-coloured or scarlet. Stamens ex- 

 serted. 



Dillenius's Cordia. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1728. Tree 10 to 

 30 feet. 



5 C. t.s'vis (Jacq. hort. schoenbr. 1. p. 39. t. 40.) leaves 

 ovate, acuminated, smooth, repand ; racemes short, branched ; 

 calyx glabrous, tubular, smooth ; corolla wrinkled, with a 6-7- 

 cleft, large spreading limb; stamens 6-7. ^ S. Native about 

 Caraccas. Habit of Sebestena. Leaves shining above, 9 inches 

 long. Corolla orange-red ; segments semi-oval. Stamens ex- 

 serted. 



Smooth Cordia. Fl. June, Aug. Clt. 1826. Tree 14 to 20 

 feet. 



6 C. AFRICA' JIA (Lam. ill. no. 1896.) leaves roundish, oval, 

 entire, obtuse ; panicles terminal ; calyx turbinate ; drupe con- 

 taining a triquetrous putamen. fj . S. Native of Abyssinia, 

 Bruce. C. Sebestena, /3, Poir. suppl. 7. p. 45. C. Abyssinica, 

 Salt. trav. p. 475, where there is also a species named C. otalis, 

 but without any diagnosis. Wanzey Bruce, trav. 5. p. 54. t. 

 17. French, ed. p. 70. Perhaps the Sebestena of Alpini. 

 Branches inclinate. Leaves dark green, paler beneath. Corolla 

 white. Stigma dark, bifid or trifid. Fruit at first soil and green, 

 but at length bony and wrinkled. 



African Cordia. Tree 18 to 20 feet. 



7 C. SUBCORDA'TA (Lam. ill. 1. p. 421. no. 1699.) leaves 

 ovate subcordate, on long petioles, repand, acute, smooth ; pani- 

 cles lateral ; calyx, stamens, and pistil almost like those of C. 

 Sebestena ; corolla campanulate ; drupe ovate, dry, hid in the 

 calyx. 'j . S. Native of the East Indies, in various parts, 

 Sandwich Islands, and of New Holland, within the tropic, &c. 

 C. orientalis, R. Br. prod. p. 498. C. campanulata, Roxb. fl. 

 ind. 2. p. 336. C. Rumphii, Blum, bijdr. p. 843.? C. Sebes- 



tena, Forst. prod. p. 18. no. 108. C. hexandra, Willd. herb, ex 

 Roem. et Schultes, syst. 4. p. 799. Novella nigra, Rumph. 

 amb. 2. p. 226. t. 75. ? Corolla large, white, suffused with red 

 segments, 6-7, roundish, spreading. Calyx like that of a 

 species of Dlanthus. Stamens length of the tube of the co- 

 rolla. 



Subcordate-]ea\ed Cordia. Tree. 



8 C. LATIFOLIA (Wall. cat. no. 893.) leaves broad, ovate- 

 roundish, glabrous, with 5 nerves running from the base ; pani- 

 cles terminal and lateral, dichotomous ; calyx smooth, cup- 

 shaped, unequally toothed ; drupe large, ovate, acuminated, 

 surrounded by the calyx at the base. ^ S. Native of Silhet. 

 Flowers large. 



Broad-leaved Cordia. Tree. 



9 C. DECA'NDRA (Hook, et Arn. in Beech, voy. pt. bot. p. 

 38. t. 10.) leaves linear-lanceolate, attenuated, scabrous, sessile, 

 with revolute edges, hoary from down ; flowers disposed in a 

 terminal leafy corymb; calyx 10-toothed, clothed with black 

 down ; corolla 10-lobed; stamens 10, inclosed, fy. G. Native 

 of Chili, about Coquimbo. Tops of branches scabrous. Flow- 

 ers large, very showy white, fragrant. Stamens inclosed, pilose 

 at the base. Capsule size of a filbert, covered by the calyx. 

 The wood of this tree is very extensively employed in the pro- 

 duction of charcoal, whence it is called Carbon, and likewise for 

 fuel for smelting copper, as the withered stems of Cactus are 

 for refining metal. 



Decandrous Cordia. Shrub 8 to 10 feet. 



10 C. SUPE'RBA (Cham, et Schlecht in Linnaea, 4. p. 474. and 

 8. p. 123.) leaves cuneate-oblong, to oblong-elliptic, acuminated, 

 acute, toothed in front, glabrous above, except the nerves, which 

 are strigose, but beset with short hairs beneath ; cymes at first 

 terminal, then lateral, pedunculate ; calyx clavately tubular, 

 irregularly cut at top, or with lacerated lobes, smooth ; corolla 

 campanulately funnel-shaped, 5-lobed : lobes roundish and acu- 

 minated. J? . S. Native of Brazil, within the tropic, Sello. 

 Young branches angular, scabrous from dense stiff short hairs. 

 Leaves form of the leaflets of the horse-chestnut, firm and 

 opaque, the largest 65 inches long, and Z\ broad. Branches of 

 cyme angular, compressed, and are, as well as the calyxes, 

 scabrous from short dense stiff hairs. Flowers large, showy. 

 Corolla glabrous, having the tube length of calyx, and the limb 

 campanulate. Stamens 5, inclosed, hairy at the base. Stigmas 

 lamellate. 



Far. a, cuneata (Cham, et Schlecht, 1. c.) leaves cuneate, 

 oblong. 



Var. /3, elllptica (Cham, et Schlecht, 1. c.) leaves elliptic, 

 obtuse at the base, and rounded, 8g inches long, and 4^ 

 broad. 



Superb Cordia. Tree. 



11 C. GLA'BRA (Cham, in Linnaea, 8. p. 124.) tops of 

 branches, inflorescence, and petioles scabrous from small bris- 

 tles, or stiff hairs, the rest glabrous ; branches cinereous, terete ; 

 leaves scattered, opposite, and 3 in a whorl, on short petioles, 

 lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, somewhat acuminated, acute, 

 6 inches long, membranous, flat ; cymes scorpioid, terminal, 

 but at length lateral ; corolla campanulately funnel-shaped, 

 glabrous. lj . S. Native of Brazil, Sello. Leaves truncate 

 and semi-erose, or sinuated on the margins. Cymes bifid or 

 trifid. Corolla lj inch long. Drupe inclosed, truncate at top. 



Glabrous Cordia. Tree. 



12 C. MOLUCCA'NA (Roxb. fl. ind. 2. p. 337.) leaves on long 

 petioles, ovate-cordate, obtuse, entire, smooth ; panicles axil- 

 lary and terminal, shorter than the leaves ; calyx gibbous, hairy 

 inside ; drupe pointed, and nearly hid in the calyx, containing a 

 4-celled nut. F; S- Native of the Moluccas. This species 

 is often tetrandrous. The filaments are short and very hairy, 



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